by Damien | Feb 19, 2015 | EDC Blog, Leading Life Science Radio Show
If you’re wondering what it takes to train and to mentor young talented researchers, you’ll get a wealth of great perspective and knowledge from this episode’s guest. We get to hear how this is done in this episode of the Leading Life Science Radio...
by Damien | Jan 26, 2015 | EDC Blog
Most science gets done by a few, motivated individuals. As a junior principal investigator, it’s your job to make sure those individuals are the ones working for you. The most successful PI’s know how to leverage their techs’ talents by understanding what motivates...
by Damien | Jan 19, 2015 | EDC Blog
“But I had a good feeling about that hire!” I’ve heard that as I was starting to coaching someone on how to fire an employee. The stats on mis-hiring can be staggering in any business, even the business of laboratory research. A mis-hire can cost you anywhere between...
by Damien | Aug 4, 2014 | EDC Blog, Management
Part 2 So, starting over is a difficult thing for anyone to do. The one thing we discussed my last blog post is how older and younger mangers view the process of challenges. Junior PIs are fairly new managers in the eyes of a department or of an institute. However,...
by Damien | Mar 13, 2014 | EDC Blog
Technical research assistants aren’t mindless protocol droids repeating experiments for you. They’re highly motivated and intellectually curious. This is at least what we aim for in our hires. This is especially true in the academic or non-profit research sectors....
