Leadership Skills
Rising stress among leaders threatens lab performance, team morale, and long-term retention
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Encouraging employees to ask for feedback strengthens lab communication, engagement, and performance
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Practical tips to help you train your new hires more effectively and efficiently
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Nominations are open for the 2026 Lab Manager Leadership Excellence Awards, celebrating the leaders who deliver innovation, safety, and operational excellence in laboratories worldwide
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Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2025 report reveals falling engagement and rising stress worldwide, highlighting how leadership support and development can rebuild motivation and trust
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Shift to a coaching mindset in lab management to improve team ownership, resilience, and independent problem-solving skills.
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Jen Heemstra offers essential skills for academic laboratory leadership, focusing on self-leadership and coaching others.
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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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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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