Owners' Questions of Prospective Directors

Nps inspires me to ask for your opinions on this question.

Your annual election for board members is coming up and there are five candidates for three openings. There's a Candidates Night where all candidates sit before you and you may ask any three questions you wish. Which three would they be?

1. What three strengths can you offer my community by way of your background & experiences?
2. What are three reasons for you wanting to serve?
3. What written materials having to do with our community and states laws about HOAs do you think you'll need to learn?

These remind me of the kind of questions they ask when you interview for jobs. Easy questions to expect and easy to develop a less than informative answer.

Instead I would ask how a candidate would deal with some different scenarios that might arise.

These would be questions from H/Os not from present board members. As an H/O, I would expect a candidate to have memorized the rules. But I'd hope that the candidate would be willing to learn them! Your other two, Melissa, aren't things that I believe an average H/O will ask.

Good point Fred. But H/Os will, indeed, interview them. The H/O questions won't be handed out in advance. I'd hope that the moderator would probe if a candidate wouldn't answer clearly. Or, on th other hand, that those in attendance would be underwhelmed.

Scenarios is interesting. We do have a full-time onsite PM & Asst. Mgr., so they mainly deal with the senators that arise. Can you give us examples?

Sorry if my post here seems identical to NpS! I first read his to mean what questions would directors ask protective directors. So I was trying to see if the replies to his question would be any different than replies to mine.