As a scientific educator, you excel at translating your scientific expertise into learning and mentoring experiences for students. Developing strong people and management skills can help you maximize your effectiveness as an educator and
take on daily challenges like solving conflicts in class, mentoring and training students, negotiating with colleagues or leading a team.
NEW: How to Be a Great Ally
Learn how to support and lift up colleagues—without doing harm.Creating an Inclusive Lab and Work Environment
This program highlights steps for promoting an inclusive lab and work environment at all educational levels.Understanding and Navigating Cluster Hiring
Institutions employ cluster hiring to help promote diversity and inclusion, and improve interdisciplinary collaborations. The panel considerations, goals, advantages and pitfalls of cluster hiring.Career Gateway
Team Dynamics and Culture Video Series
Leading a team - one that you create or one that is assigned to you – is a common role in science. How you bring people together, manage and motivate them are critical to fostering effective and successful teams.Leader's Edge
Science education often doesn’t teach you how to be a manager. Learn how to motivate and lead from these exemplars.Leading Through Conflict and Difficult Conversation Video Series
Disagreements and conflict occur in work and team life. How a leader manages these situations is key to a healthy and successful work environment.An Eye on Diversity
Universities share their diversity and inclusion initiatives that others can learn from.Being Black in Science
Black physiologists share what it’s like to navigate a majority white academic culture.Nurture Now
Mentoring today means tailoring interactions to meet the needs of each student.Other Resources to Discover
- Psychological Safety and the Critical Role of Leadership Development, McKinsey & Company, February 2021
- Modeling Inclusive Behaviors to Build Trust with Staff, Lab Manager, June 2021
- Use microaffirmations and call out microaggressions to help others, Nature, June 2021
- How I Learned to be Better at Active Listening as a Manager, Fast Company
- Inclusive Teaching, CBE - Life Science Education, 2019