Manager, Ph.D.
Supporting STEM PhDs who have stepped up to lead teams and organizations.
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Plus: Avoid micromanagement by setting clear expectations; Good management is key to innovation; Ask deep questions to say atop projects; Manager your time by not doing some things
Plus: Making high performers feel valued; In praise of raising expectations; Being more visible; Networking in good conscience
You probably don’t get enough feedback from your boss. Your team members don’t, either.
Your Data Collection Pipeline With Your Team Members
Plus: Hypothesizing what's behind behaviour; the value of hard work, and diversity; project communications tips; advocating to executives; directorship prerequisites
Plus: Feedback is for behaviour change, not self-expression; trust lets you see reality; change is risky, and makes things worse before improving them; writing usefully
Plus: Setting direction; introverted leaders; Software processes and variants
Plus: Long- and short-lived Group dynamics; The leaders journal
Plus: Team member career conversations; PR pushback by race/gender; Working with your manager; Writing up incidents and non-incidents
Plus: The resilience of mixed-seniority teams; Gaining mentors; Product manager skills; Postmortems from scratch
Plus: Thoughts on management; Defining meaningful key results
Plus: Giving the right amount of context; Effective feedback nudges behaviour; We need respectful disagreement; Project management mistakes; Proposing action Debugging management
