This course is for early career researchers and mentors who believe that modern scientific careers require management skills and want to be research leaders. This curriculum gives you skills to effectively implement funded projects, thereby enhancing your career success. Research leaders take on a number of new roles, rights, and responsibilities--as scientific leaders, financial administrators, managers, and mentors. In this course, we explain how to optimize the people, teams, projects, and finances for which you are responsible.
Researcher Management and Leadership Training
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What you'll learn
Assess the importance of management and leadership skills, and identify approaches to optimize resources when building a research career.
Identify key financial and administrative responsibilities for researchers, including regulatory compliance, financial reporting, and budgeting.
Understand how to effectively manage a research group: hire new people, manage existing employees, and engage teams to cultivate a positive culture.
Compare key responsibilities for mentors and mentees, strategically build mentorship teams, and enhance mentorship using coaching and sponsorship.
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There are 6 modules in this course
Welcome to Researcher Management and Leadership Training
What's included
4 videos5 readings
Being an effective leader--of projects and people--means to understand yourself and how you communicate with others. In practical terms, this means taking steps to align the words you say with the things you do. As a leader you set a mission and vision for your work that reflects your personal values, and then show people how to contribute to your vision of a brighter future--leadership is about getting people to follow you! We will discuss leadership behaviors generally, and specifically scientific leadership. Leaders take on additional and specific roles when you lead specific people such as employees. In that case, you may take on management or mentoring functions. These are related to, but quite different in important ways, from leadership. We will introduce you to important management and mentoring skills in other modules. This module focuses on the rights and responsibilities you have as a research leader.
What's included
33 videos3 readings1 quiz1 discussion prompt
New research leaders need to know about financials, reporting, and administrative obligations. If you are the research leader of a sponsored project with grant funding, then you are an academic entrepreneur. You need business skills because financial support and academic leadership come with rules, scrutiny, and new challenges. This module will prepare you to seek local answers to key questions so that you're not taken by surprise, and do not make “beginner's mistakes” with your funds. Small missteps can be extremely consequential to you as a research leader. We will help you spend research funds appropriately, on time, and as effectively as possible. You will be made aware of key practices for compliance, and prepared to adapt to the unexpected. From a regulatory or funder perspective, our goal is to keep you in compliance, out of trouble, and in good standing as a principal or lead investigator. This module focuses on the rights and responsibilities you have as a research leader and administrator.
What's included
40 videos4 readings1 quiz1 discussion prompt
Management refers to getting people to perform to agreed-upon standards. We will address important practices when managing people who work for you, whether they're paid employees, or earning credit such as students. Management is one of the biggest traps for early-career researchers, from defining tasks to giving direction and correction to delivering performance reviews and professional development. Having one or more people work on your research team requires you to engage someone to work in order to advance your goals. Your goal is that they will be your extenders, and do for you what you don't or won’t do for yourself. If you manage effectively then they will be accountable and responsible for their work. This course will address key actions you will take as you start your own lab or research group: how to decide the kind of person you need; take steps to hire someone; and how to manage individuals, your team, the project, and also manage yourself. We’ll get you started on a path to effective management, improving your team’s performance and your own productivity and scientific leadership. This module begins our program on the rights and responsibilities you have as a research leader and manager of people and teams.
What's included
24 videos2 readings1 quiz1 discussion prompt
We continue our work on management, now focusing on existing employees and groups of employees. Now you have people working to help you advance your goals. As a group, there is an ethos or culture to define and manage. Over time you will experience turnover when people leave the work group, and also hopefully retention as people find satisfying employment with your group. You must now attend to people’s own professional goals over time, and assess performance as they add new tasks and skills. As your own research enterprise grows and your team grows in number, you will delegate more tasks. With respect to managing scientific integrity, we will address processes to help. Focusing on delegation, we will address specifics of performance management and effective reviews, going beyond annual performance reviews. We’ll get you started on a path to effective management, improving your team’s performance and your own productivity and scientific leadership. This module concludes our program on the rights and responsibilities you have as a research leader and manager of people and teams.
What's included
21 videos3 readings1 quiz1 discussion prompt
Getting and giving effective mentorship are skills to build over your career. Mentoring is needed at every age and stage, and is an evidence-based way to boost your career and work satisfaction. Mentorship is a critical element for your professional development as a scientific and research leader. As a new research leader, you may be asked to begin mentoring now that you've had some success. Our goal is to help you get the most out of your mentors, and also prepare to become a highly effective mentor. We focus on the mentee, the person who seeks to benefit from the mentor's knowledge and experience, and the mentor, the person with relatively more experience and expertise to share. Each role comes with rights and responsibilities, and goals for the relationship. In this course, we describe the difference between mentorship and sponsorship, and how to get each type of support. We help you shift your thinking to be strategic about building your own mentorship team, and think of your mentorship team as your own personal board of directors. Coaching is introduced as a way to enhance your mentoring skills. We encourage you to watch this module with a mentee or mentor to build that relationship, while building skills that can be used in any mentoring relationship.
What's included
28 videos1 quiz3 discussion prompts
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Frequently asked questions
Please post your goals to a discussion forum for that module, and course directors will periodically respond. Make it clear you would like feedback. Alternatively, you are welcome to email course directors for feedback, although if volume is high you may not get feedback more often than weekly. We want to support your goals! Please watch for announcements for real-time mentoring events, and in-person or virtual training events.
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