Slides for the Growing Healthy Labs workshop held at the Department of Geosciences of Princeton University in May 2019. Created and facilitated by Christine Y. Chen. Google Slides version can be accessed via https://bit.ly/GrowingHealthyLabs.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
A healthy work environment is fundamental to good science, but we rarely discuss strategies for how to create and maintain one. Despite measurable and empirically-supported benefits associated with effective leadership, management, and mentorship for both advisors and trainees, most faculty are rarely trained in these skills. As a result, academic teams can lose time to unproductive interpersonal issues, lack of motivation, and unnecessary conflict. These problems can lead to high costs in terms of money, productivity, mental health, and retention of talent, and often disproportionally impact students from groups underrepresented in STEM fields.
In response, [SPONSORING ORGANIZATION] is pleased to offer a workshop on effective lab and personnel management for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers. The goal of this workshop is to help future principal investigators (PIs) become more effective at managing their research groups and creating inclusive spaces that develop excellent science and scientists.
In this workshop, participants willlearn about recent research on the impact of leadership and lab culture on productivity and overall group well-beingconsider and discuss common evidence-based "best practice" strategies for effective personnel management share ideas and practice strategies for good supervision of trainees with other participantsleave with additional resources for future self-education and formal training
SLIDES DESCRIPTION
There are 91 slides in total. The table of contents is as follows:
• Introduction — Why is this important? [Slides 3-18]• Workshop Objectives, Agenda, & Icebreaker [Slides 19-26]• Active Role Play Activity: Advisor-Advisee Meeting [Slides 27-37], using a modified version of a role play designed by the National Center for Professional & Research Ethics• Strategies for Communicating Expectations [Slides 38-58]• Psychological Safety — What is it? Do you experience it? [Slides 59-64]• Conflict — What is it and why should we embrace it? [Slides 65-77]• Active Listening — small group discussion [Slides 78-...
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
A healthy work environment is fundamental to good science, but we rarely discuss strategies for how to create and maintain one. Despite measurable and empirically-supported benefits associated with effective leadership, management, and mentorship for both advisors and trainees, most faculty are rarely trained in these skills. As a result, academic teams can lose time to unproductive interpersonal issues, lack of motivation, and unnecessary conflict. These problems can lead to high costs in terms of money, productivity, mental health, and retention of talent, and often disproportionally impact students from groups underrepresented in STEM fields.
In response, [SPONSORING ORGANIZATION] is pleased to offer a workshop on effective lab and personnel management for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers. The goal of this workshop is to help future principal investigators (PIs) become more effective at managing their research groups and creating inclusive spaces that develop excellent science and scientists.
In this workshop, participants willlearn about recent research on the impact of leadership and lab culture on productivity and overall group well-beingconsider and discuss common evidence-based "best practice" strategies for effective personnel management share ideas and practice strategies for good supervision of trainees with other participantsleave with additional resources for future self-education and formal training
SLIDES DESCRIPTION
There are 91 slides in total. The table of contents is as follows:
• Introduction — Why is this important? [Slides 3-18]• Workshop Objectives, Agenda, & Icebreaker [Slides 19-26]• Active Role Play Activity: Advisor-Advisee Meeting [Slides 27-37], using a modified version of a role play designed by the National Center for Professional & Research Ethics• Strategies for Communicating Expectations [Slides 38-58]• Psychological Safety — What is it? Do you experience it? [Slides 59-64]• Conflict — What is it and why should we embrace it? [Slides 65-77]• Active Listening — small group discussion [Slides 78-...