Managing and Leading
Research Scientists and Engineers
November 14 & 15, 2007
This two day workshop is custom designed to provide R&D team/group leaders or managers with the knowledge and skills required to manage and retain highly trained scientific/engineering professionals in the challenging environment of an R&D laboratory. Material for this workshop draws heavily on the 50 years of literature on the management of technological innovation and R&D management, and from the comments and inputs from hundreds of federal government scientists and engineers, and private sector research personnel who have participated in similar workshops over the past 30+ years.
Who Should Attend
R&D personnel in the following categories would benefit from this workshop:
- First or second level R&D supervisors (e.g., Section Head)
- Scientists, engineers or technologists who are being considered for promotion to supervisory positions
- Scientists or engineers who take on temporary supervisory roles such as project leaders.
Workshop Outline
What an Effective R&D Team/Group Leader Does
- Important Management Functions
- Key Activities of an Effective R&D Manager/Team Leader
- Factors that Influence an R&D Team Leader's Behaviour
- Organizational Factors that Support Effective R&D Management
Leadership Styles that Work in the R&D Environment
- Sources of Managerial Power
- Overview of Leadership Styles and Their Application to R&D Personnel
- Dealing With the Ineffective R&D Supervisor
- Impact of Management Style on Creativity and Productivity
Improving Team Interpersonal Communication Skills
- Reasons for Poor Communication
- Improvement Techniques
- Sources of Communication Difficulties in R&D
- Avoiding Interpersonal and Intra-Organizational Communication Problems in your Organization
Effectively Managing Conflict and Change in the R&D Environment
- Types of Conflict in the R&D Setting
- Causes of Conflict Among R&D Personnel
- Conflict Resolution Techniques
- Introducing Change Effectively
- Reasons Scientific Personnel Resist Change
- Reducing Resistance to Change
Workshop Director: Thomas E. Clarke, M.Sc., M.B.A.
Mr. Clarke has designed and presented R&D management workshops and courses to scientific personnel from Canadian and U.S. government and industrial laboratories in the U.S. and China for over thirty years, and has been a consultant to several Canadian government departments on R&D management and intellectual property management.
Location: CFIA Building, 1992 Agency Drive, Dartmouth
Price includes a 100+ page workshop manual
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Clarke-Reavley Consultants 707 - 172 Wentworth Drive, Halifax, N.S. Canada, B3M 0P4 |
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