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About the workshop
Scientists often climb the leadership ladder through their scientific achievements and technical abilities. But few are prepared with the leadership skills necessary to develop and manage a best practice scientific team. In order to maximise performance in the laboratory and other settings, principal scientists must employ a number of skills including strong communication, emotional intelligence and authenticity.
Continuous funding cuts often cause tension and disengagement in the workplace. As a leader, it is imperative to motivate and engage your team in challenging circumstances, whilst addressing conflict simultaneously. In order to achieve an inspired and ambitious team, scientific leaders must create a work environment conducive to innovation and creativity.
Through various communication avenues and tactical relationship building, scientists can drive productivity and positive change whilst creating a strong supportive network for their team. In this workshop, you will explore the leadership skills demanded of scientific professionals to increase team performance and fast-track research outcomes, in a real-time decision-making environment.
Agenda
Strengthen your leadership skills for sustained operational success
- Understand the big picture in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) world
- Understand the difference between technical and adaptive problems
- Adapt your communication skills for leading in a VUCA environment
- Develop the counterintuitive skills needed for dealing with complex challenges, wicked problems and dilemmas
Lead strategic change as a scientific leader
- Create a vision and learn to guide team culture
- Collaborate across teams to drive new initiatives and face complex challenges
- Develop your skills for strategy formation and implementation
- Improve the way critical information is delivered, presented and understood
Develop your communication skills to achieve influence
- Understand and adapt to the different ways individuals make sense of the world
- Develop your one-on-one communication skills to improve relationships
- Increase your EQ to better connect and communicate with diverse teams
Resolve conflict and tackle challenging situations
- Break down negative perceptions between scientists and technicians to increase workplace harmony
- Strategies to identify and tactically address toxic workplace behaviours
- Techniques for effective conflict resolution in difficult or complex scenarios
- Navigate challenging scenarios - difficult decision-making in a political environment
Leadership in a STEM organisation
- Explore what is different in a STEM organisation and its implications for how to lead
- Explore the limitations of personal leadership mastery
- Learn how systems thinking can help with facing resistant and persistent problems
- Facilitate cross-functional communication to break down silos and broaden perspectives
Effective communication skills to liaise with key stakeholders
- Write scientific reports accommodating different stakeholders’ communication styles
- Collaborate with policy and other external teams to build beneficial partnerships
- Effectively communicate technical outcomes to key non-scientific stakeholders
Tools to become deliberately developmental to realise organisational potential
- Understand different sense-making capabilities
- Gain insight into your immunity to change
- Learn to use errors and vulnerabilities to facilitate personal and organisational growth
- Build team culture and embed support structures into daily fabric of working life
Drive productivity through engagement and innovation
- Inspire creative thinking and produce new ideas
- Build an environment conducive to innovation and creativity in the workplace
- Identify team motivators to increase productivity and engagement in the laboratory or technical environment
Tailor Your Training Experience
To make sure you get the learning solution that’s right for you, we offer different levels of tailoring to suit your needs. Choose from three levels of customisation:
1.Off the Shelf
Love what you see? Great! Choose this option to take one of our most popular courses and bring it in-house for your team. Includes a pre-course consult session with our facilitator to make sure we hit the mark, and deliver the right learning experience for you.
2.Customised
Make sure you get the most from the course you choose, by tailoring the content to get the right fit for you. Speak to our team, who will work with you to pick and mix from a curated bank of training modules to help customise your learning experience.
3.Premium
Not on the list? Let us know what you’re looking for and we will find the right solution. Our team of learning specialists will work with you to develop a unique training course for your business. Through an in-depth consultation process, we will work with you to profile your learning needs and build a bespoke program from the ground up.
Speak with one of our team today to find which option is right for you.
Who Will Attend
- Principal Research Scientists
- Technical Leaders
- Senior Science Coordinators
- Research Managers
- Scientific Professors
- Scientific Project Managers
- Heads of Science