Rob Kramer is a senior leadership adviser at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
Stories by This Author
Advice
A great failure in our current academic system is the inconsistency of managers receiving — or providing — regular, specific, quality feedback on job performance.
Advice
What happens after you’ve been named department chair? A sure change in department dynamics and tasks to do. In this Two-Minute Tips video, Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz offers five tips to smooth your transition to department chair based on Rob Kramer and Peter J. Mucha’s article “5 Tips on Surviving Your First Year as a Department Head.”
Advice
Chairs are notoriously stuck in the middle, serving everyone in all directions.
Moving Up
A university’s leadership-training program prepares them to be linchpins for transformation.
First Person
How to plan a faculty and staff retreat that people will actually find valuable.
First Person
Three tactics you should definitely not pursue in organizing a staff retreat.