DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/17eaf4/beyond_the_bench) has announced the addition of Principal Investigators Association's new audioconference "Beyond the Bench: Conflict Management for Personal Investigators" to their offering.
Prevent lab disputes from turning into a declaration of WAR!
Gaining the trust and cooperation of your lab staff is a difficult task under even the best of circumstances. But as all-too-many PIs can attest, disputes with grad students can quickly spread like a nasty virus among your lab and destroy the delicate bonds you've worked hard to solidify, severely undermining your ability to secure discoveries. At the very bottom line, research flow can become severely clogged.
Your lab is full of diverse post-docs, grad students & lab techs with different experiences, backgrounds, perspectives, and personalities. Disputes will erupt over lab equipment, authorship, and even complaints about others not pulling their weight. When these issues arise, its critical that they be met with tact, responsiveness, and an approach that addresses staff concerns while also protecting your research. Failure to handle brush fires promptly and with the right response can set off an inferno of ill-will, negativity, and ultimately lawsuits that can consume precious resources and damage your research efforts for years to come.
You are a successful scientist because of your analytical abilities but you may have little experience in preventing or diffusing conflict. Let Howard Gadlin, PhD., Ombudsman and Director of the Center for Cooperative Resolution, at NIH, give you detailed guidance, including examples and lessons learned, on navigating the thorny issues so often involved in these disputes.
Disclaimer: The Principal Investigators Association, an independent organization, brings you this product as a training tool. The content has no connection with the NIH or NSF, nor do these agencies endorse it. All views expressed are those personally held by the author and are not official government policies or opinions.
Speakers:
Howard Gadlin has been Ombudsman and Director of the Center for Cooperative Resolution, at the National Institutes of Health since the beginning of 1999. Before that, from 1992 through 1998, he was University Ombudsperson and Adjunct Professor of Education at UCLA. He was also director of the UCLA Conflict Mediation Program and co-director of the Center for the Study and Resolution of Interethnic/Interracial Conflict. While in Los Angeles, he served as well as Consulting Ombudsman to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Prior to moving to Los Angeles Dr. Gadlin was Ombudsperson and Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He currently serves as Chair of the Coalition of Federal Ombudsmen. Dr. Gadlin is past President of the University and College Ombuds Association and of The Ombudsman Association (TOA).
An experienced mediator, trainer and consultant, he has years of experience working with conflicts related to race, ethnicity and gender, including sexual harassment. At present he is developing new approaches to addressing conflicts among scientists. He is often called in as a consultant/mediator in intractable disputes. He has designed and conducted training programs internationally in dispute resolution, sexual harassment and multicultural conflict. He is the author, among other writings, of Conflict, Cultural Differences, and the Culture of Racism, and Mediating Sexual Harassment. He is the co-author of the On Neutrality: What An Organizational Ombudsman Might Want to Know. Recently he was Guest Editor of a Negotiation Journal section entitled The Many, Different and Complex Roles Played by Ombudsmen in Dispute Resolution.
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