Leadership Skills
If you're in management long enough, you're bound to face a decision that will challenge your principles. There will always be gray areas that need to be navigated, where something might or might not be right. But inside all of us is something that tells us whether an action we're considering is or isn't right.
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How to be the bearer of bad news and still help facilitate a positive outcome.
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Tips for setting and achieving goals for yourself and your lab
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A lot has been written about why managers should coach employees. A lot also has been written on how to coach employees. You can find many articles on the Pygmalion Effect and the Galatea Effect, which explain how employee coaching works. Very few ar
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Leadership is often as much about how we make our employees feel as it is what we are able to achieve. However, in many workplaces the drive for higher numbers leaves the people stuff on the sidelines. Inspirational leaders know that when they praise their employees on a regular basis, the results will come.
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Myths remain one of the most effective means for communicating archetypal truths. Its no surprise then that the two most important management secrets are known as the Pygmalion and Galatea effects. Are you aware that your expectations of an employee might influence that persons performance?
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As scientists focus on obtaining career success, managers can improve the morale in their organizations by providing effective training programs, positive feedback, and open and honest communication to their employees.
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It can be difficult to delegate. When it's your reputation on the line, no one is more reliable than yourself. As a manager, you know it's important to become a good delegator. Still, it's challenging to decide which shifts in responsibility will allow your organization to become as successful as possible.
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Last week we talked about the problems of being a micromanager and how to break the micromanagement habit. But what if you work for a micromanager? Reporting to a micromanager can be hazardous to your career as well as endlessly frustrating. Som
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There are two sides to micromanagement. The first is the harm you do by being a micromanager. The second is the harm working for a micromanager can do to your own career. We'll talk about the first side below and the second side next week. What is
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Whether by training and education or by moving up through the ranks of their respective organizations, fortunate research professionals make their way into fields that offer meaningful work and the opportunity to use their skills to contribute to society.
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When you schedule a meeting, its probably not going to be met with the same anticipation as an office party. That's why it's bad news for you if your meetings are perceived to be drawn out and unnecessary.
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