This workshop for female postdocs and professors will allow you to explore and pilot different approaches and techniques for managing a small team or leading a team on a specific project. Specifically, it will assist you with:
• Setting the tone and making the ‘right’ impression in a new group
• Establishing effective habits for discussion and debates in the group
• Imposing appropriate tools for decision making
• Implementing strategies for resolving disagreements
• Managing subordinate, superordinate and peer interactions
• Ensuring a project advances and keeps to schedule
• Developing your personal leadership style

Approach
Participants will work individually and in small groups on a variety of reflective and practical exercises designed to assist them in identifying and developing techniques, which fit with their personal leadership style. Each participant will have the opportunity to role play leading a
group discussion and to receive constructive, individual feedback from the group.