Agile Concepts in Academia, Part I
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Agile Concepts in Academia, Part I

“Agile” is one of those business buzzwords that is making its way into Academia. In this post, I will attempt to peel away the jargon and mythology to focus on the aspects of Agile that can have the most impact on the daily work of an academic, whether a single investigator, the head of a center, or an RD professional.

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What Is the Function of Leadership?
M. S. AtKisson M. S. AtKisson

What Is the Function of Leadership?

If you're the head of a group of people and not consciously functioning as a leader, you're doing themselves and yourself a disservice. And leadership can be learned, shows up in a lot of different ways. Oozing is optional.

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M. S. AtKisson M. S. AtKisson

How Can You Measure an Apple?

We recently hosted one of our regular Brown Bag discussions on the topic of creativity. It touched on many elements of an ATG workshop that we call Asking Better Questions. What does it mean to ask better questions? Why is it important to be curious about unfamiliar disciplines? What does creativity have to do with doing excellent research?

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Book Review: 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
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Book Review: 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

When ATG launched our LEADin3 program, this book became one of our important resources. When asking leaders to consider their impact on the systems they lead, the idea of staying above the line is an easily understood method of rapid self-assessment for most leadership challenges.

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Leveling Up through Coaching
M. S. AtKisson M. S. AtKisson

Leveling Up through Coaching

What exactly is coaching and how might it facilitate developing university research leaders? As part of our Brown Bag series, ATG recently hosted a panel of trained coaches who apply their coaching expertise to empower university researchers to identify and move toward their goals.

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Resources for New PIs: Help Finding the Way
M. S. AtKisson M. S. AtKisson

Resources for New PIs: Help Finding the Way

In anticipation of our August Brown Bag event - The Roles You Play as a PI - we asked our followers for their favorite and most useful resources for new PIs. Here are six of their top picks.

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What Kind of Research Group Do You Want to Lead?
M. S. AtKisson M. S. AtKisson

What Kind of Research Group Do You Want to Lead?

In the coaching program for early faculty, we talk a bit about culture creation. Recently IDEO U's Creative Confidence podcast, The Future of Work is Hybrid, featured Sacha Connor, Founder and CEO of Virtual Work Insider. Connor summed it up beautifully. Culture creation comes down to three things: policy, marketplace, and narrative. Lab manuals, even if they include behavioral expectations for civility, authorship & not stealing your bench mate's reagents, are policy documents. Policy alone cannot create culture.

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