| October 3 2008
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How we communicate with those we work for and those who work for us is dictated by a variety of factors. Your boss prefers weekly face-to-face meetings, you prefer brief emails, others on your team favor long-winded phone conversations, while your newly hired college grads are happiest texting. Despite the many new channels available for getting your message across, all are not created equal when it comes to the communication challenges you and your organization face. The takeaway from this month’s cover story is that choosing the appropriate communication technique and medium should not be left to chance. Rather, a lab manager needs to carefully assess every situation, every business goal, every team, and every individual to determine the most effective ways of communicating. “Telephones, email, and social technology modalities have their rightful place in labs as a quick and easy means of conveying and/or broadcasting information, but managers who use these methods to the point of minimizing or excluding real-time person-to-person communication on a reasonably consistent basis should not be surprised if levels of staff motivation and trust start to flag.”
It’s the week before Easter, but outside my window there are still patches of snow on the ground. To which I say, enough already! Bring on Spring and make it snappy.
The good news from this year’s confidence report is that the laboratory industry, by and large, is moving in the right direction—forward—though in slightly smaller steps than we would have hoped. But as author Angelo DePalma writes in this month’s cover story, “Steady as She Goes,” “Survival is not a dirty word in a world recovering from catastrophic financial shenanigans, and toward that end treading water is not such a terrible strategy.” If you didn’t participate in this year’s survey, let me know if these results are in line with your own feeling of confidence as you head into 2013.
Talking to your staff, your customers, and to upper management is common sense, natural and instinctive, right? Think again.
In this month’s cover story, author John Borchardt describes the changes that have taken place since 2008 in priorities for hiring new laboratory employees. Most significant is that today’s employers, rather than hiring newly graduated
Driving back to my office today, I heard an interview on NPR with Lisa Randall, Professor of Physics at Harvard University. She was there to talk about new discoveries in the field of physics, including new evidence for the existence of the Higgs
New Brunswick, Canada's Soricimed Biopharma faces unique challenges as it looks to continue research.
It’s been a while since our last INSIGHTS supplement, but never fear, this feature is still alive and well at Lab Manager Magazine with the next issue set for Septem - ber 2012. September’s INSIGHTS will focus on data management systems,
Last month we provided important and practical information about project management techniques and their usefulness in laboratory management. This month we turn our attention to a different management challenge that becomes more commonplace every
According to PMI (the Project Management Institute), project management is the application of knowledge, skills and techniques to execute projects effectively and efficiently. It is a strategic competency for organizations, enabling them to tie
How we communicate with those we work for and those who work for us is dictated by a variety of factors. Your boss prefers weekly face-to-face meetings, you prefer brief emails, others on your team favor long-winded phone conversations, while your newly hired college grads are happiest texting. Despite the many new channels available for getting your message across, all are not created equal when it comes to the communication challenges you and your organization face. The takeaway from this month’s cover story is that choosing the appropriate communication technique and medium should not be left to chance. Rather, a lab manager needs to carefully assess every situation, every business goal, every team, and every individual to determine the most effective ways of communicating. “Telephones, email, and social technology modalities have their rightful place in labs as a quick and easy means of conveying and/or broadcasting information, but managers who use these methods to the point of minimizing or excluding real-time person-to-person communication on a reasonably consistent basis should not be surprised if levels of staff motivation and trust start to flag.”
It’s the week before Easter, but outside my window there are still patches of snow on the ground. To which I say, enough already! Bring on Spring and make it snappy.
The good news from this year’s confidence report is that the laboratory industry, by and large, is moving in the right direction—forward—though in slightly smaller steps than we would have hoped. But as author Angelo DePalma writes in this month’s cover story, “Steady as She Goes,” “Survival is not a dirty word in a world recovering from catastrophic financial shenanigans, and toward that end treading water is not such a terrible strategy.” If you didn’t participate in this year’s survey, let me know if these results are in line with your own feeling of confidence as you head into 2013.
It’s widely known that unemployment creates strain on marriage even when both partners work. New Ohio State University research on employment and divorce suggests that pressure on husbands to be wage earners remains. The focus of Liana Sayer&rs
More evidence of poor decision-making as a cause for the Gulf of Mexico oil well blowout recently emerged. The sorry situation holds valuable lessons for lab managers. Houston Chronicle business columnist Loren Steffy noted, “It&
Many laboratory professionals – and their managers – would like to delay their retirements. I wrote about this in an earlier blog. However, this is often not an option for scientists, engineers and technicians who lost their laboratory jo
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