If you are an FFA Advisor or member, chances are you are in the process of selecting your next chapter officer team or possibly have already elected your team. Every year I am asked for potential interview questions to pass along.
Here is a list of some chapter officer interview questions which will help you see your candidate’s heart, vision, character, and potential leadership for your team.
Chapter Officer Interview Questions to Consider
How can we our local FFA chapter better?
Do you think social media accounts are beneficial or unbeneficial to FFA Members?
Will you keep your social media accounts in check if selected to serve?
One CDE you would want to add to local FFA chapter.
What is the greatest challenge facing agricultural youth today?
What is the difference between animal rights and animal agriculture?
What can you do for your FFA chapter that has not been done before?
Why should an FFA Member look up to you as a leader?
How would you reach out to an 8th grader to get them more involved in FFA?
What has been your biggest regret while wearing the blue and gold jacket?
If you were to plan a chapter movie night, what movie would you want the members to see?
Name a time you fell in life and had to get back up.
Who has been some of your biggest FFA role models?
Entitlement has been a toxic trait in organizational leadership. What is your plan to avoid becoming a victim of it?
How do you handle personal drama?
Someone on your team is caught breaking contract. What do you do?
Your ag teacher is ordering pizza for the chapter meeting. What kind of pizzas would you think your members would like?
Ag teacher wants to add a new book to the ag room. What book would you want your members to read?
What is an area of your local chapter you would like to fix?
Do you think Ag should be a mandatory course at your school? Why?
What are your thoughts on adding 7th grade Ag classes to your chapter?
Your ag teacher received a grant to purchase a new ag truck. What kind of truck would you recommend them to buy?
How do we get more 8th and 9th grade members to overcome nervousness?
If you could have any office you wanted, you would be stationed by the what?
Why do some chapter officer teams become more about themselves than about the chapter?
You are putting Banquet together. What role do you see yourself doing in the event planning process?
Why do you want to serve as a chapter officer?
What advice would you give to someone who may not be selected as a chapter officer today?
Ag teachers go through a lot. What do you think is role of the FFA Advisor on an officer team?
Your local FFA Chapter is starting a new fundraising project. What project would you start?
How can you help your chapter become a national 3 star chapter?
What is one new FFA event you would want to start?
In every organization there are cliques, how will you break through the cliques of your chapter and ensure everyone is involved?
You are at banquet in official dress when the air conditioner goes out. You notice members are getting hot and start taking off their FFA jackets, what do you do?
How do you solve problems and handle moments of crisis?
It’s the first FFA Chapter Meeting of the year, you notice a bunch of new members sitting by themselves, how will you engage them?
You are serving as a chapter officer and realize you have another school event going on the same time as your local FFA event. Keeping in mind you have already signed an officer team commitment contract, what would you do in this situation?
If you were to look at your current priorities of school activities, where does your local FFA Chapter rank in your life? Explain your ranking and why FFA is where it is for you.
If you could see your FFA Chapter walking across the stage at state FFA Convention for an award, what would you want your chapter to be win?
Why is it important to keep a professional appearance as a chapter officer?
If we were to interview your friends, what would be a few traits they would mention about you?
Your ag teacher does a lot for the chapter. What is one area in your chapter you would like to reduce your ag teacher’s stress in?
“The ag truck can be a classroom.” What does that statement mean to you?
The national chapter award talks of how a Program of Activities should build community, grow leaders, and strengthen agriculture. Which of these POA categories do you feel your chapter best does and why?
Your ag teacher asks you to complete a task for the chapter. Be honest and choose one of the following: Would you: tackle the task right away, eventually get to it on your own time, or soon forget about it?
In your opinion, what is the greatest challenge facing students from getting involved in your chapter and how will you address that challenge as an officer?
You get to put an officer walk in playlist together, what songs are you adding to it?
Many times throughout an officer’s year of service, you have to be flexible and willing to adapt. What does that mean to you?
You overhear a new FFA Member saying, “This jacket is so uncomfortable, why do we need to wear them?” What would your response to that member be?
We are seeing an all time low in parental involvement across the board in our schools. How can we get more parents involved in their student’s FFA journey?
If you had the option to grow anything in our greenhouse for our members to learn how to grow, what would it be and why?
If selected to serve as a chapter officer, what is the one main thing you would want to leave behind on your chapter members?
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