In this article, I share how to make the most of virtual conferences in a pandemic. As you’ll see, many of the strategies for managing in-person conferences also translate to virtual ones. With a few caveats and twists....
I should have done it a long time ago. I wish I had made the change from side hustle to full-time consulting years before I did it. I had a ‘side-hustle’ consulting business for a long time - more than 15 years. It took me that...
I’ve been reading, observing, synthesizing, and writing more during this time. To get out of this circular rut, we need Forward Thinking about the things that we do know and the things we can control. We need actionable, realistic ideas that move the needle....
The COVID-19 impact on higher education has been, and is going to be tough. Really tough. And solutions will be challenging to find -- we need to even reengineer solutions....
As institutions navigate their response to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a lot of discussion around the wisdom of a “gap year” for high school seniors before starting their college experience next fall. No – this isn’t an article about whether or not one...
College and university foundation and advancement offices do important work. So do their supporting professional associations, such as CASE. Their work is critical to institutional success. But many people on campus still aren't aware that the gifts donors make to the institution often fund things...
As an institutional researcher, I have never gotten a 2:00 a.m. phone call notifying me of a data emergency. I’ve never been asked to come to campus immediately to assist the data crisis response team or make pivot tables. Never. However – my colleagues in housing,...
We all have strengths … and weaknesses. It feels much better to think about the strengths, though. Who wants to really dwell on their weaknesses? It takes a lot more energy, and certainly doesn’t feel very good. So, it’s no wonder why people bump “address institutional...
Have you started to notice “Cross-functional team management skills" required on recent job postings or asked about in interviews? I certainly have. But what does that really mean? It sounds like a clever way of saying ‘you’ll need to manage a group of people who...
“What gets measured, gets managed.” We’ve all heard this phrase (written by Peter Drucker in 1954). Some 65+ years later it has been used a TON—and misused almost as often. Some folks have taken it as a license to ‘add one more metric’ that should...
