Being a successful scientist requires good people and management skills to take on the daily challenges of working as part of a team, collaborating with colleagues and building your leadership capacity.
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.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.Career Gateway
Leading Through Conflict and Difficult Conversations
Disagreements and conflict occur in work and team life. Physiology leaders discuss how they manage these situations to create and maintain a healthy and successful work environment.Leader's Edge
Science education often doesn’t teach you how to be a manager. Learn how to motivate and lead from these exemplars.Leadership Skills for Research, Training and Beyond
Executive Presence: How you present yourself and your ideas matters" discusses how to get a head start on becoming a great leader in your field.Do I Belong Here
How to overcome imposter syndrome, a common mental roadblock.Imposter Syndrome
What is imposter syndrome, how does it impact careers and what can we do about it?Being Black in Science
Black physiologists share what it’s like to navigate a majority white academic culture.Other Resources to Discover
- How Lab Heads Can Learn to Lead, Nature, May 2018
- Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientifıc Management for Postdocs and New Faculty, Burroughs Wellcome Fund and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Modeling Inclusive Behaviors to Build Trust with Staff, Lab Manager, June 2021
- Use microaffirmations and call out microaggressions to help others, Nature, June 2021
- Science Relies on Constructive Criticism. Here’s How to Keep it Useful and Respectful, AAAS, March 2021
- How I Learned to be Better at Active Listening as a Manager, Fast Company, June 2019