Professional Documents
Culture Documents
vs.
Administration
Tactical Strategic
• Meet one-on-one with every • Be clear about what the
faculty and staff member in expectations are for the
your department. Department and for individual
• Find a good manager and make ranks.
him/her the Assistant Chair • Figure out what each person is
for daily operations. good at and ask them to do it.
• Don’t stay in your office doing • Set big goals and intermediate
paperwork and never eat lunch goals.
alone. • No faculty vote should ever be
• Lead by example. a surprise!
• Build a community.
Administration vs Management
(B. Ryder)
• Set calendar and workflows to support admin tasks
» P&T, Faculty annual reviews, Eval of direct reports, Budget
decisions, Industrial affiliates meetings,
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• Organize dept so you can delegate
» Assoc DHs, Key staff, Committee chairs, Grad stud org.
» Meet regularly with key delegatees