Lab Leadership
Jen Heemstra offers essential skills for academic laboratory leadership, focusing on self-leadership and coaching others.
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Non-standardized performance testing makes purchasing decisions challenging—this practical guide helps you cut through the noise to evaluate key metrics
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Speakers at the My Green Lab Summit 2025 emphasized culture change, collaboration, and innovation as essential tools for reducing laboratory waste
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At the My Green Lab Summit 2025, experts from academia, industry, and healthcare urged managers to look past metrics and embed inclusion, transparency, and collaboration into everyday practices
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Each spend in the lab should be viewed as an investment in the health and growth of the organization
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Labs can’t wait until a leadership seat is vacant to think about succession—investing in people now lays the foundation for the future
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Half of workers are job-hunting—especially those under 35—so lab leaders need clear growth paths, fair credit, and equitable work distribution to improve lab staff retention
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Conferences are an excellent approach to training, growth, development, and networking
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Develop a specific, helpful, and simple process to deliver high-quality results
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A LinkedIn Workforce Confidence survey shows only 30 percent of individual contributors aspire to management, raising questions about how organizations can support today’s managers and cultivate tomorrow’s lab leadership
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From early inspirations to career milestones, Melissa Delgado, PhD, and Hui Yu, PhD, reflect on their journeys and share advice for navigating careers in science
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Generative leadership helps lab managers go beyond operations to foster creativity, collaboration, and adaptability in the lab
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