Today’s senior leaders in advancement face the challenge of aligning their work to keep up with the changing landscape of higher education. We sat down with four leaders to explore big issues facing higher education.
“If you have a good manager and a good team, they’re going to perform at a much higher level than if you have a team that is mismanaged,” says Herbert, senior vice president for university advancement at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Advancement leaders shared common mistakes and markers of successful managers. Here are a few of their takeaways.
Leadership isn’t innate; it isn’t in your genes. It has to be learned and mastered because it’s about supplementing behavior with a definable set of skills and abilities.
We’ve rounded up resources to help advancement leaders, and attendees of the upcoming 2014 Summit for Leaders in Advancement, get the most out of the event.
From 2011 to 2012, I took a temporary hiatus from having social media interns in my office. Frostburg’s Social Media Group, our campus-wide team of faculty and staff, was doing […]
