Leadership

          

“Managing myself and working with my team: A skills upgrade for Group

Leaders”

(March 24 & 25, 9:30 – 17:30 each day, Aula -2, CIC)

Senior researchers’ role as scientific leaders is usually accompanied by a growing burden of responsibilities and pressures in running research projects, and managing and training other scientists. The goal of this workshop is to help Group Leaders gain new perspectives on some key competencies for their role as team leaders. The over-riding principle of this training is awareness-raising: to develop conceptual frameworks to understand and deal with some of the most common challenges group leaders face, and to acquire a set of practical tools and methods that are immediately applicable in the participants’ working environment.

Workshop Content:

1. Review of core communication skills. Communication is the key to everything we do as researchers, whether it’s transmitting our science or managing our
   colleagues. Interpersonal communication will be a recurring thread throughout the workshop, and we will begin by exploring a model for interpersonal
   communication, how to give and receive feedback.
2. Time and task management. How do you priorities tasks to get important things done first? How do you plan your day to work effectively? Participants will learn
   intuitive tools to gain efficiency, as well as how to set realistic medium-term goals, and review digital helpers to manage their work and collaborate better.
3. Motivation. Science can give us many reasons to feel demotivated, with consequences for our work and career progression. We will work with a simple
   framework for understanding demotivation, both in ourselves and in colleagues we supervise.
4. Delegation. As researchers work on and lead ever-larger projects, we become increasingly responsible for the work of other team members. In this module, we
   will learn an intuitive model for delegating effectively, and following-up on progress.
5. Understanding Conflicts. This workshop has an important communication focus, with tools to facilitate working relations through good communication.
   However, conflicts inevitably arise in any working environment, and are a cause of stress and lost productivity. We will present a model to understand how
   conflicts develop, and a powerful tool for resolving them through direct, appreciative, de-escalated communication.
6. Negotiation. Researchers increasingly find themselves in situations where negotiating well is essential for professional success, including for roles and
   workload on collaborative projects, authorship on publications, or start-up package for career.

Workshop Style:

This is an interactive workshop with extensive elements of partner work, exercises, group discussion. We use innovative training methods and proven didactic
techniques, and place special emphasis on sharing and learning from the participants’ own expertise and experience. To increase impact and applicability, we
work with real-life cases from the participants whenever possible. We may ask participants to reserve time for individual preparatory work before the workshop.

Trainers:

Scientists with many years of experience as researchers and scientific communicators.

Target audience:

Group Leaders and senior Postdocs at the CIC

Registration Form:

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This training course is part of the activities outlined in the FICUS Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) Action Plan, which will be open for all FICUS, Univ Salamanca, and CSIC trainees working at the CIC.