Bootcamp: "Building Communication Skills for Lab Leadership"

Do you aspire to leadership roles in academia, industry or business?
Do you want to understand and get along better with your current and future PI's or lab mates?
 
In order to be a transformative leader or simply a good colleague in any scientific work setting, you must do great science AND be able to work effectively with and through others.  This workshop will use the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to help you understand how your personality can drive your effectiveness as a future PI, leader or manager or co-worker.  
 
During this workshop, you will:

  1. Improve your leadership skills by considering how your unique MBTI profile affects the way you work with others.
  2. Learn how to engage more productively in high-stakes lab conversations.  
  3. Become a more effective communicator in lab and personal/social settings.
  • When: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm on Saturday, November 5th
  • Where: Ctr Bldg - Seminar Room C210
  • Whom: OIST Postdoctoral Scholars and Scientists are strongly encouraged to attend
  • Instructor: Bill Lindstaedt; Assistant Vice Chancellor, Career Advancement, International and Postdoctoral Services (CAIPS); University of California, San Francisco, USA
  • Registration is closed.

About the instructor:

Bill Lindstaedt has been helping scientists and engineers make career decisions for nearly twenty-five years.  For the past 15 years he has been helping UCSF’s PhD biomedical scientists launch their post-training careers.  In addition to his current leadership duties, he also presents workshops designed to help PhD students and postdocs, as they move on to the next steps in their academic or non-academic careers.   He has provided one-on-one career advising services to more than 1500 of UCSF’s PhD students and postdocs at UCSF, and he draws on these experiences to provide relevance in his large group workshops.  Bill is a co-author of "myIDP", a web-based career development tool hosted by Science magazine's careers site that now hosts more than 100,000 registered users, mainly trainees in the biomedical sciences.   He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering and Master's degrees in Counseling Psychology and Higher Education Student Affairs.