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Management Skills

Up to Essential Skills

Advice on how to move into management and how to succeed once you're there.

The staff dreams are made of - Naturejobs 12 May 2005
Being the boss is new territory for young investigators. Kendall Powell screens strategies for managing a successful group.
Project Champions, part 1
by Search Masters International Recruiter Dave Jensen. "Entrepreneurs are the heart of the biotech industry. A wild, risk-taking entrepreneur--a scientist with a great idea, a venture-capital investor with the money and stamina to make a business--has become synonymous with biotechnology. Someday, perhaps, this group of tough little companies will become an industry of large, conservative organizations. But I hope not. Most observers agree that what makes biotech interesting is its exciting, fast-paced atmosphere--and people with enough chutzpah to light up New York."
Switching From A Technical To A Management Track
Karen Young Kreeger, American Chemical Society
Three Giant Steps for Effective Management: A Manager's First Approach to Most Business Situations
There are three giant steps that effective managers should take as their first approach to most business situations: Step 1: Analysis of facts Step 2: Allocation of resources Step 3: Decisions and actions As this article will show, effective management requires managers to do more than apply these three steps as some sort of ready-made formula. A must read for first-time managers or managers new to an organization or project who need to approach management as both a science and an art!
The Art of Leadership
by Search Masters International recruiter Dave Jensen. "Whether you are on a scientific or management track in your company, developing the skills to lead people should be a part of any career plan. Many scientists and engineers seem to think that it is the professional manager, that person dealing with the administrative details of people and projects, who must develop skills in leadership."
Challenges of Managing a Global Workforce
This article offers insights into how cultural differences can affect key aspects of business, including planning and decision-making, human resource management, project management, and performance recognition. The author also discusses key cultural variables and presents a cultural framework to help interpret behaviors in certain business situations and leverage cultural variables to achieve positive outcomes.
Win-Win Project Management
by Search Masters International Recruiter Dave Jensen. "We have all noticed that two very talented people, each managing a project, can achieve two far different results. We see examples all the time. This difference in project management ability has a good deal to do with how each employee manages personal relationships with others. In particular, it has a great deal to do with the way they influence peers outside those clear lines of authority present in hierarchical companies."