Most research mentors are already managing people and performance issues, they just haven’t been given the training, tools or support to do it well. 

We teach lab members with research mentor responsibilities how to apply “people manager” skills in real lab settings. Our training provides faculty, postdocs, and graduate students with a no-nonsense, comprehensive methodology, introducing clear, usable frameworks across the seven core supervisory responsibilities. While we emphasize the three most critical, setting expectations; teaching, training and delegating; and giving feedback, we also focus on how to diagnose and respond to issues that impact another person’s productivity, morale, or well-being.

This training will teach you how to:

• Set expectations
• Teach, train, and delegate work
• Provide feedback
• Recognize and reward your people
• Address performance or conduct issues
• Manage conflict and ongoing change
• Offer appropriate support

Using real-world examples and case studies, you will also learn how to navigate everyday supervisory challenges in the lab, including:

• Responding when expectations are not met
• Delegating the right level of responsibility and autonomy as trust develops
• Managing across different work styles and personalities
• Understanding how to access and use institutional tools and support

Our training breaks down the professional competencies of managing performance, by sharing the strategies, approaches, and language needed to establish, maintain, and troubleshoot required in productive working relationships. These skills will serve you throughout your career.