When the source of the conflict is a manager who is very good at what they do yet employees have negative perceptions about their management style, it affects the lab morale, absenteeism, and staff turnover. Join this webinar to learn how to deal with abrasive leaders in your lab.

“Trust me.” What sort of image do those words conjure up? Do you picture a parent teaching a child to ride a bike? A used car salesman talking with a customer? Or does your mind perhaps turn to the workplace, thinking of the promise for a future salary increase?

Keeping middle managers happy with their supervisors is the key to retaining the lower-level workers they manage and avoiding expensive turnover costs, according to a Vanderbilt University study.

The Importance of Traditional Follow Up in a Non-Traditional Business World

Researchers test theories of beet juice benefits

In this program you will learn how to stop procrastinating and how ‘creative’ procrastination can be a positive in your work day.

Organization change in the lab has the need for flexible models that allow rapid redirection of workflow and operational practices. Some examples of responses that were developed to meet these more frequent challenges as well as to manage the overall change process will be shared. 

The five steps of successful team building.

Sean Kim, founder of thegrowthlist.com shares some secrets on effective follow up

Study supports Tepper School professor's groundbreaking work in "collective intelligence."

A study involving the University of Iowa finds crows join humans, apes, and monkeys in exhibiting advanced relational thinking.

Domination and submission, survival of the fittest, constant adaption to change - the wilderness and the corporate world have many similarities. The more detailed the look into each world, its routines, rules and ways of communication, the more obvious it becomes how beneficial it would be if the corporate world could learn from nature. In some areas, such as product engineering it is already happening, but in the area of personal development of leadership and teamwork skills this opportunity is still sadly missed.