Describe a real life example of something you learned from ‘situational leadership'.

1. What are the three (3) types of boards of health?

2. Following are the ten characteristics of Servant Leadership:

Listening: A servant leader puts the emphasis upon listening effectively to others.

Empathy: A servant leader needs to understand others' feelings and perspectives.

Healing: A servant leader helps foster each person's emotional and spiritual health and wholeness.

Awareness: A servant leader understands his or her own values and feelings, strengths and weaknesses.

Persuasion: A servant leader influences others through their persuasiveness.

Conceptualization: A servant leader needs to integrate present realities and future possibilities.

Foresight: A servant leader needs to have a well developed sense of intuition about how the past, present, and future are connected.

Stewardship: A servant leader is a steward who holds an organization's resources in trust for the greater good.

Commitment to the growth of people: A servant leader is responsible for serving the need of others.

Building community: A servant leader is to help create a sense of community among people.

What three (3) are most important to you? Why?

3. True or False: Advisory Boards have the authority to hire and fire the chief executive of a local health department. Why?

5. Please provide two (2) examples of secondary health data sources for a state in the US which begins with the first letter of your last name. If the first letter doesn't cut it, then go to the second letter in your last name.

6. What are two (2) examples of approaches a scholar, such as yourself, might use in attaining primary data?

7. When conducting a community health assessment, why is it important to know basic demographic information of individuals answering your surveys?

8. True or False: A new employee at a local health department should care less about whether he/she has a position description for his/her job. Why?

9. I am interviewing you for an intern position at the Barren River District Health Department and I choose to use the ‘group interview', what are benefits of such a process?

10. Give two (2) reasons why mentoring in the workplace is beneficial?

11. Edwin Locke believes ‘the more difficult the goal, the higher the level of performance'. Does Locke know what he is talking about?

Why or why not?

12. The four (4) steps of progressive discipline include verbal/written reprimand from the supervisor, written reprimand from upper management, time off without pay and dismissal. Why is accurate documentation of poor employee performance important in this process