Workshop: "Managing emotional intelligence in the workplace"

Date

Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 13:30 to 15:00

Location

Conference center - Meeting room 1

Description

Target Audience: Researchers and Students.

Session format: Interactive workshop.

Facilitator: Dr. Natalie Lundsteen, Assistant Dean for Career and Professional Development, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry; Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, UTSW, USA.

Short Description:

Thriving at work includes gaining awareness of often-overlooked emotional aspects in your interpersonal interactions, such as having difficult conversations, giving and receiving feedback, making decisions, and managing conflict with colleagues. This session will give you an understanding of emotional intelligence concepts, and provide practical advice and tools to build your workplace 'people skills'.

Learning abjectives:

By the end of this session participants will be able to...

  • understand emotional intelligence;
  • learn about your own emotional tendencies;
  • determining your workplace culture;
  • discover your own preferences for managing conflicts and emotions.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

 

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About the facilitator: 

Dr. Natalie Lundsteen is Assistant Dean for Career and Professional Development in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW), where she oversees career resources and programs for postdoctoral researchers and graduate students. Natalie has also advised and taught postdocs, graduate students, and alumni at MIT, Oxford University and Stanford University. Her research interests are in workplace learning and the development of professional expertise. She is a regular PhD career advice contributor to Inside Higher Ed’s ‘Carpe Careers’ blog, managed by the Graduate Career Consortium, and co-author of ReSearch: A Career Guide for Scientists, published by Elsevier in spring 2017. 

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