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- Speed Mentoring: Seven Steps to a Successful Session
Speed mentoring is a riff on speed dating that allows trainees and early career faculty to meet multiple mentors in a short time. Have you ever wished you could have ten minutes for advice or conversation with an experienced researcher outside your immediate circle of mentors...
- Academic Reads: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
With uplifting chapters entitled "Emotions are Overrated", "Victimhood Chic" and "Don't Try" Mark Manson's advice on life and career is anything but subtle. Think of it like taking advice from former Jet Blue employee Steven Slater who ended his 28 year flight attendant career by...
- Ideas for the Academic Traveler
Conference and other work travel always comes with high points and drawbacks. Maximize the high points by adding new dimensions to your planning and by disrupting some conventional ideas about work travel.
Getting Ready:
Create a trip summary, either by making a persona...
- Introverts Can Network, Too!
Do you consider yourself an introvert? Do you get anxious thinking about how to meet new colleagues? Are you looking for better ways to network without becoming overwhelmed?
I personally consider myself an introvert, and I have to remind myself that networking is essential ...
- Taking Flight
If you want to be off your K or similar career development award before the end of five years, the calendar will tell you that you can't start later than the third year to submit a substantial grant. For convenience let's call that major grant an R01 though it could be a VA Mer...
- Recipe for Hosting a Manuscript Sprint
A manuscript sprint harnesses the power of peer accountability and review to get a manuscript from zero to out the door in 6-8 weeks. We all have competing demands that keep manuscripts on the back burner. This method forces you to make progress on your paper every week.
Ingred...
- The Write Rules
Are you committing these sins in your scientific writing? Time to repent.
Minimize jargon. If you must use it, do not assume familiarity. Provide a definition. A well-written definition will not insult knowledgeable readers. It will reassure them you are also an exper...
- What’s in Your Bucket(s)?
Once you’ve defined the buckets of work for your grant submission and placed them on your timeline, you are ready for the second step in the work breakdown process.
Recall that the purpose of work breakdown is to divide a large amount of work into manageable chunks. The first ...
- Email: Do It Well
In my quest to model good reading behavior, I often check out books to peruse while my kids read. Recently I picked up Send: Why People Email so Badly and How to Do It Better. I admit I was wondering what a book could teach me about e-mail, but it turned out to be very useful. F...
- The Power of Pause: How to be More Effective in a Demanding, 24/7 World
Count to ten! Take a deep breath! But what next? These time-tested techniques are often not enough when conflict threatens to jeopardize a project, although Nance Guilmartin does use this advice as a first step.
Guilmartin suggests that we get “curious, not furious," leading...
