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Chapter 3:
A Day in the Life of a Florida Gator
UF Human Resources:
Working for YOU
To achieve preeminence, we need
great people. We want to help UF
attract and retain the strongest
talent. We’re committed to helping
ensure UF employees enjoy a positive
work environment with opportunities
for learning and personal growth.
UFHR supports the university’s
efforts toward preeminence through
an aligned and contemporary
approach to performance
management focusing on fostering
high performance.
Simply put, we want to help hire the
very best people and we want to
ensure these great people stay at
UF. Our role is to help you settle into
your job and to assist supervisors in
both managing and engaging their
employees.
Leadership
Responsibilities
Leadership is hard. It really is.
At UF, quite frankly, we expect a lot from
our leaders. If you are a leader at UF, you
are expected to set a good example of
dependability, work ethic, and communication;
to serve as a positive role model for other
employees, students, and members of the
public; to provide helpful and timely behavioral
feedback to members of your team; and to
set clear and challenging—yet reasonable—
expectations regarding performance. We
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want you to be trusted by your
employees and respected by your
peers. And we typically want all
of this on a budget and often
with unforgiving deadlines and,
sometimes, public scrutiny. (As we
said: Leadership is hard.)
“ I am convinced Leadership is not a privilege or
that nothing a source of power, but a duty
we do is more and a responsibility. To live up to
important UF’s leadership expectations, we
than hiring provide training and education
and developing to help leaders be effective. In
people. At the fact, we have built an extensive
end of the leadership competencies model
day you bet around which we structure our
on people, not
on strategies.” training and education. You can
—Lawrence find a variety of leadership tools
Bossidy, former and more information about the
CEO for General UF Leadership Competency Model
Electric and on the UFHR website. In short, the
Florida snow bird model sets up four quadrants: Build
Trust, Create and Communicate
Vision, Generate Alignment, and
Cultivate Talent. These quadrants
represent broad categories critical for leadership
success at UF.
Naturally flowing from these competencies is
the underlying belief that you will be honest
and fair, you will work hard, and you will
value every employee. You should also readily
seek assistance whenever you encounter a
new problem or a worsening scenario—or
when you have ideas for positive change and
improvement. And please don’t hesitate to seek
counsel from your immediate supervisor, local
human resources liaison, or from UFHR.