Managing
and Leading
Scientific
Teams
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
February 22-23, 2007
This two day workshop was designed to provide R&D
team/group leaders or managers with the practical 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 vast 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 who have participated
in similar workshops over the past 30years.
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 Behavior
- Organizational Factors that Support Effective R&D Management
Easing the Transition from Researcher to Supervisor/Team
Leader
- Selecting R&D Team Leaders/Managers
- Orientation of New Leaders/Managers
- Training R&D Managers
- Importance of Mentoring
- Transition Difficulties to Avoid
Organizing and Managing an R&D Team
- Positive/Negative Aspects of Using a Team
- Organizing the R&D Team
- Selecting Team Members
- Reward the R&D Team
- Organizational Actions that Support or Inhibit the Team's Effectiveness
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
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 thirty years, and
has been a consultant to several Canadian government departments
on R&D management and intellectual property management.
Group rates available.
Please register by contacting Tom Clarke at (250)
755-3066 by February 13, 2007
Price includes a 100+ page workshop manual
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