Is your team working together effectively?

The success of all organizations depends upon how well members work. As research becomes more interdisciplinary, skills that promote collaboration are at a premium; but few of us have the time or opportunity to develop the skills necessary for successful teamwork, such as:

• Delegation
• Collaboration
• Speaking clearly/succinctly
• Engaging in conflict constructively
• Listening
• Prioritizing work
• Creating focus
• Building relationships

Take a break from your busy schedule to reflect on your own challenges with respect to working on a team. Give yourself the time to improve your non-technical skills and gain actionable information for making real change. Join CTSI for Managing Yourself Before Managing Others, a half-day workshop that will provide you with a self-assessment tool and peer feedback on an adaptive skill you hope to acquire or further develop.

About your facilitator:

Cheryl Vaughan Ph.D., Ed.M.

Dr. Cheryl Vaughan currently serves as the Managing Director of the Skills Development Center for the Boston Biomedical Innovation Center (B-BIC). B-BIC is an NHLBI-funded innovation accelerator program. She recruits industry experts on various aspects of technology commercialization for the purpose of developing open access training and resources for post-docs, research faculty and clinicians. She is a trained facilitator of the Immunity-to-Change process for individuals and teams, and runs Managing Yourself before Managing Others (a small-group workshop that includes a biological and cognitive neuroscience framework for the Immunity-to-Change process). Cheryl received her Ph.D. (1999) and Ed.M. (2015) degrees from Harvard University. Before joining B-BIC, she served as Lecturer in Molecular and Cellular Biology and was appointed the Program Director for the Master’s degree in Biotechnology at Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education. Cheryl’s main interests are in the design, creation, and implementation of learning opportunities that help scientists build skills for collaboration.