Developing effective Leadership Skills for Scientific Managers

Do you know these challenges?

• You are leading a team of entire teams, distributed over huge distances.
• You don't have formal, hierarchical authority over the teams, but you still have to get their buy-in, engagement and everybody's most effective work.
• Your teams communicate in multiple languages and come from a wide variety of cultures, posing even more communicational challenges. 
• Most everyone in your team is well-trained and educated to be an expert in a specialised field, and you feel like you have to not just understand them, but that you also have to make them understand each other's needs and requirements.
• Although you have a scientific of highly specialised background yourself, it is impossible for you to understand every single facet of your projects. 
• And yet, to get the respect your teams and to be able to measure your project's level of success, you have to understand your findings. 
• You don't feel like your education has prepared you adequately to be a leader and that it seems to consist of many skills you now have to learn "on the job". 

If you have answered "YES" to more than two of the above challenges, you are most likely a Scientific Manager. 

---

What I have heard over and over from this very special breed of project managers is that they tend to struggle with the soft skills their job requires of them. 
You are not alone in that.
In collaboration with the Scientific Managers Network we offer leadership and soft skills workshops, individualised coaching programs and online trainings. 

Scientific Managers Network helps  scientific managers to work more effectively by providing:

• An OPEN FORUM for knowledge exchange.
• A MENTORING PLATFORM for one-on-one support.
• WEBINARS and WORKSHOPS tailored to your needs and your work.

For inquiries and more information contact us.

---