January 13, 2016
KU’s Research Caliber: strengthen skills and retain top performers
- This project is complete, but progress will continue to be reported.
- Human Resources presented a session on Communication in the Workplace for research staff on December 17th to aid in providing greater communication skills (20 attendees).
- IT has presented several sessions to build and reinforce research staff’s technology skills, including training on the advanced features of Excel on December 18th (20 attendees).
Pursue System Improvements: implement tools that increase faculty and administrative efficiency; collaborate with KUMC where feasible
- Huron Consulting to implement ecrt (online electronic effort certification system); kick-off meeting completed, mapping of data elements underway, and campus-based focus groups formed and scheduled to meet.
KUCR Efficiency: strengthen operations, processes, and overall effectiveness
- This project is complete, but progress will continue to be reported.