Effective Management and Leadership
of R&D Personnel
Nanaimo, British Columbia
March 31-April 2, 2003
This three day workshop is designed to provide R&D
managers with the knowledge and skills required to manage and retain highly trained
professionals in the challenging environment of an R&D laboratory. This workshop
draws heavily on the vast literature on the management of technological innovation
and R&D management.
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 Manager Does
- Important Management Functions
- Key Activities of an Effective R&D Manager
- 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
Motivating Your R&D Staff to be Creative and Productive
- General Theories of Motivation and their Application to the R&D Environment
- Reward and Recognition of R&D Personnel
- Dual Promotion Ladders
- Career Paths for R&D Personnel
Improving Interpersonal Communication Skills in the
R&D Environment
- Reasons for Poor Interpersonal Communications
- Improvement Techniques
- Sources of Communications Difficulties in R&D
- Avoiding Interpersonal and Intra-organizational Communications Problems
Improving Performance Management
in R&D Setting
- Types of Substandard Performance in a laboratory
- Doing Performance Appraisals: Why and How
- Correcting Substandard Performance
- Dealing with the Disruptive R&D Performer
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 in government and industrial laboratories
for twenty-six years, and has been a consultant to several government
departments on intellectual property management.
Participants receive a 100+ page workshop manual.
Stargate Consultants Limited
1687 Centennary Drive, Nanaimo, B.C. V9X 1A3
Canada
Tel: (250) 755-3066
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