Simplify your lab life in 2019 using 4 categories.
Breaking down your lab management process can help to conserve mental energy and further save you time and money. You become less reactive and you become more proactive by organizing your workflow.
How to motivate your team to do the work? Use negative and positive words.
If you understand the different types of self motivational strategies, you can tailor how to motivate your team into action. This can ultimately translate into real world productivity and discoveries.
How do you stop the drama? Don’t play the role.
Most often, people behave as adults and can speak for themselves. Sometime it just requires a mediator to help facilitate the communications.
What do you do when everything is due right now? Take 10.
Now I’m not the first, nor the only one who feels like there are a million things to do. I’m sure you’ve felt this way before and maybe even now, more than ever. To top that, you may feel you’re behind schedule with your research, your career, your family, and the list can go on. This is actually relatively normal for most highly ambitious people, but the problem doesn’t lie in the number of tasks we must complete, but in the choices of which tasks to even take on.
How can you find good help? Sell yourself.
A talented postdoc should be able to add their own unique perspective to the research, and they should see their role as an opportunity to be creative and to add value. However, as we plow through CVs and resumes we find applicants who expect a course to be laid out, or a lab to be already established. That’s never the case with a start up. There are so many uncertainties and variables that can lead to failure or bankruptcy. Therefore, finding a postdoc who understands this and can navigate these obstacles is critical.