Leading Within Our Organization

Mizzou is where you’ll find passionate, dedicated leaders joining together to tackle the world’s most pressing problems. Learn about our structure, mission and values and our guidelines for conducting operations that contribute to our mutual success.

Leading a Team

As a leader and supervisor of faculty and staff, you play a critical role in developing employees, recognizing contributions, setting expectations, and effectively addressing under-performance. Effective supervisors are foundational to a healthy organization.

Leading Yourself

Investing time in professional development for yourself is investing in a vibrant future for our organization. Leaders are encouraged to engage in development programs, trainings and review other resources to be effective throughout their career with Mizzou.

Other Resources for Leaders

From self-service portals to branded templates, and from workplace accommodations to employee engagement, there are a number of resources across the university that may be helpful to you in your role as leader.

Strategic and trusted advisors

Strategic HR Partner

Each college, school and division has a Strategic HR Partner who provides high-quality, business-focused consultation and guidance for HR programs and initiatives.

HR Partners
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Mizzou Forward

MizzouForward is the boldest investment in our history and aims to elevate and promote the University of Missouri as one of the best research universities in the nation.

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President Choi's Blog

Follow President Choi as he shares the highlights and achievements of all the great goings-on happening at Mizzou.

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Why Mizzou

Our distinct mission, as Missouri’s only state-supported member of the Association of American Universities, is to provide all Missourians the benefits of a world-class research university. See what being a Tiger entails for faculty, staff and other workers at the university.

Why Mizzou?
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