Seeing the Dark Side of #Worksmarter
Motivated Mentor
We cannot trap our staff and faculty in over commitment on a burnout treadmill and imply blame that they are not smart enough to do their work properly. Work smarter …
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How To Be an Academic Leader and Maintain Time For Yourself
Susan Dyer
Seventh grade English class and your assignment is to write a one pager about what you want to be when you grow up. Hmmm…sports writer, teacher, astronaut, video game …
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Simple Steps to Validating and Managing Others: A Bedtime Story
Julia Phillippi, PhD
You may be scoffing at finding time to read, but let’s face it, if you want to reach the next level you have to reach for it purposefully.
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Small Wins for Sustained Success: The Progress Principle
The Edge for Scholars
Don’t let your lab’s fortunes sink like the Titanic, to borrow the opening simile from The Progress Principle. Read this book instead and find out how to facilitate …
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Watch the Front Lines
David Calkins, PhD
Delegation is important; but make sure to remain engaged.
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How to Manage People as a New Investigator
Rebecca Helton, MA
We recently hosted three newly independent investigators who run research teams humming with activity and people, who told us what it takes to manage a lab full of humans in …
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Don't Miss the Deal Breakers: Nine Questions for New Lab Staff Hires
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Hooray! You’ve set up a lab. You have a scale and everything. Now the applicants are pounding down your door looking forward to helping you get the Nobel Prize. …
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Go Pee. Academic Management Lessons I Learned from Audie Cornish.
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
This is Audie Cornish. Audie is my 1-year old Shiba Inu/Rottweiler mix who never has to pee. This is odd, because most larger mammals have a pretty pressing need …
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How to Interview the Hell Out of Academic Job Candidates
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
One of my favorite parts of being a faculty member is interviewing students, fellows and future faculty members. For reasons that elude my tiny Fighty Squirrel brain, folks think if …
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Productivity Tip #7: Reclaim Your Meeting
The Edge for Scholars
How often do you hear a colleague say, “I’m so excited to attend today’s group meeting,” or a student remark, “How is it possible that my group meetings …
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