This assessment is designed to provide a director perspective on how they meet the challenges as a center director.
Questions in the assessment are based on skills and behaviors this leader uses to contribute to the center’s and school/college/campus’s long-term success. The raters' participation will give the leader feedback on perceptions of their leadership effectiveness. The center director will also have the opportunity to rate themself. All non-managerial responses are strictly confidential. The results of this assessment will help build self-awareness and provide input for development planning for overall improved leadership.
The following categories and items are areas for participant feedback:
Feedback Categories
Manages Strategy
- Creates a shared vision.
- Develops a strategy to reach shared vision.
- Sets goals in alignment with the strategy.
- Develops plans to reach strategic goals.
- Uses a communication strategy to support goals.
- Serves as an advocate for the center’s and school/college/campus’s interests.
- Promotes activities in the strategic plan that support inclusion and belonging.
- Aligns center’s and school/college/campus’s goals with unit-wide strategic priorities.
Manages Operations and Finances
- Oversees the management of the center’s and school/college/campus’s infrastructure, including the physical, technological, and financial resources to support the center and school/college/campus.
- Oversees the center’s and school/college/campus’s training programs.
- Engages in discussions around addressing barriers to accessibility and inclusivity in the workplace.
- Supports community engaged research.
- Encourages service and outreach that align with faculty strengths.
- Effectively manages the budget.
- Aligns resources with strategic priorities.
Manages Talent
- Creates a supportive and productive work environment/culture.
- Recruits, hires, and onboards new faculty.
- Supports junior faculty through the tenure and/or promotion process.
- Supports new leader orientation processes (directors of teaching programs, research committee, Faculty Executive Committee, etc).
- Develops, mentors, and coaches faculty.
- Provides regular feedback and annual performance evaluations to faculty.
- Supervises staff and provides them mentoring, coaching, and development.
- Provides regular feedback and annual performance evaluations to the staff they supervise.
Center Profile
- This leader creates a Center:
- that has respectful interactions among colleagues.
- that demonstrates a commitment to inclusion and belonging.
- that has openness and transparency.
- that has a culture of excellence and quality.
- where students feel mentored and supported.
- that has open discussions about ideas and research.
- that supports high productivity.
- that aligns service responsibilities with faculty strengths.
- that has effective internal communication.
- where problems are addressed, not ignored.
- where there is a willingness to listen and compromise.
- that supports innovation to meet changing student needs.
Open-Ended Questions for Center Directors
- What are your greatest strengths? Please provide specific behaviors and the impact those behaviors have on your leadership.
- What are your greatest opportunities for development? Please provide specific behaviors and the impact those behaviors have on your leadership or on others.
- Would you recommend that you continue in your role? Why or why not? If so, what suggestions do you have? What would you like to accomplish in the Center and school/college/campus?
Open-Ended Questions for Raters
- What are the center director’s greatest strengths as a leader? Please provide specific behaviors and the impact those behaviors have on the center director’s leadership or on others.
- What are the center director’s greatest opportunities for development as a leader? Please provide specific behaviors and the impact those behaviors have on the center director’s leadership or on others.
- Would you recommend that the center director continue in their role? Why or why not? If so, what suggestions do you have? What would you like to see this leader accomplish in the Center and school/college/campus?