NIH-Leading Science Meetings
Course Number: 8804

Description

When team or project meetings are run well they can be an invaluable tool for communicating information and making decisions in the science workplace. When run poorly they can be a source of frustration. In this solution-focused half day workshop you will learn and practice the key elements of running productive and interactive team or project meetings in the science workplace. This is a highly interactive workshop using NIH scientific case studies and examples from the world of scientific research in academia. Interactive discussion and role playing will allow participants to experience and practice specific techniques.

Key Topics

• What makes meetings work, and what can hamper their usefulness.
• How to guide a group through the key stages of decision making.
• How to identify and counteract the most common impediments to meeting effectiveness, including difficult or disruptive behaviors and conceptual traps like groupthink and hidden group biases.
• How to harness and use conflict to improve the quality of the group's decisions.

Audience

This workshop is intended for scientists who lead meetings and those in managerial or leadership positions who seek to get the best out of their teams.

About the Instructor

Carl M. Cohen, Ph.D., has more than 25 years of biomedical research and management expertise, including having been Chief Operating Officer of Biovest International focused on cancer immunotherapy and Vice President for Research and Development at Creative BioMolecules. Carl served as Chief of the Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology and Acting Chair of the Department of Biomedical Research at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center of Boston. During that same period he also held the positions of Professor of Medicine and Professor of Anatomy and Cellular Biology at Tufts University School of Medicine. Carl received his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University.

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