Workshop on
LEADERSHIP IN
BIOSCIENCE
February 24 - 27, 2012
Application Deadline: January 13, 2012
Selection
Decisions: January 20, 2012
Instructors:
Carl M. Cohen, Workshop Director
Danielle Kennedy, Workshop Co-Facilitator
Guest Speakers:
Ken Miller, Brown University
Kathy Barker, Author of At the Helm
Workshop
description: This is a highly interactive 3.5 day workshop in
which you will learn and develop the skills to lead and interact
effectively with others in both one on one and group settings. The
workshop will focus on techniques, situations and challenges that relate
specifically to leading and managing in the scientific workplace.
The
workshop will emphasize learning by doing and will involve role playing,
giving and receiving feedback and group problem solving. Much of the
learning will be peer-to peer. Participants will be expected to discuss
their own experiences and to be interested in and helpful to others as
they discuss theirs.
The
workshop will help participants identify areas where they need guidance
and growth, as well as how to capitalize on areas of strength.
Participants will have the opportunity to share their experiences and
challenges with others and to receive feedback and guidance from others
with experience in leading scientists in a variety of settings. At the
end of the course, participants will be linked through a unique on-line
community in which they can continue learning from one another and from
the course instructors.
Key focus areas of the workshop will include:
•
Recognizing and understanding leadership in a science setting
• Using
negotiation as a tool in scientific discussions and problem solving
• Identifying
and resolving conflicts in the lab
• Dealing with
difficult people and situations
• Communicating
your ideas and plans in a way that engages others
• Leading
effective and productive meetings
•
Becoming effective citizen scientists
Target
audience:
The workshop is targeted to life scientists making, or recently having
made, the transition to a leadership or managerial position in either academia, not-for-profit or the private sector.
Workshop
Director: Carl M. Cohen, Ph.D. Carl is President of Science
Management Associates and provides consultation and training in
interpersonal, group and organizational skills to scientists and science
executives in both the public and private sectors. Carl 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 is
co-author, with his wife Suzanne of “Lab Dynamics: Management Skills for
Scientists” Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2005.
Workshop
Co-Facilitator: Danielle ("Dannie") Kennedy, Ph.D. Dannie is a former president of the Board of
Directors of the Boston Center of the A.K. Rice Institute and has
directed numerous conferences on authority and leadership. She is on the
faculty of the Executive Coaching Program at the Massachusetts School of Professional
Psychology and has served on the Case Series Editorial Board of the
Family Firm Institute. As an adjunct faculty member at Simmons College
and guest lecturer at Harvard University and Smith College, she has
taught courses on leadership, executive coaching, organizational theory
and consultation, post-merger integration, applied research methods, and
group dynamics. Prior to joining WorkLab
(formerly Nautilus Consulting Group), Dannie worked as a senior
consultant at KRW International, an executive development boutique.
Dannie holds a Ph.D. from Simmons College and is a graduate of the
Advanced Studies in Organizational Development Program at the Boston
Institute of Psychotherapy. Her clients include Fortune 500 corporations
and institutions in electronic information, financial services,
advertising, publishing, testing and assessment services, human resources
and university administration.
Please
note that selection criteria for attendance
at the workshop requires submission of a personal
statement and one reference.
Workshop students are expected to stay for the duration
of the course. The workshop will begin in the mid-afternoon
of Friday February 24 and end by lunchtime on Monday February
27. The workshop will be held at the Laboratory’s Banbury
Conference Center located on the north shore of Long Island.
Generously subsidized with funds provided by American Express.
Cost
(including board and lodging): $750
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