Supervising Staff/Employees
Learning how to manage people is one of the most important skills you will
ever learn. Your skills in this area will impact your life at work and at
home.
The APS
and the Association of Chairs of
Departments of Physiology recommend that trainees understand the
importance of and work to develop the following supervisory skills:
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a. |
Awareness of basic human resources
procedures/laws |
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b. |
Recognition of the need to compensate
employees fairly - financially and by acknowledgement of their scientific
contributions |
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c. |
Listening skills |
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d. |
Advocacy skills |
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e. |
Ability to explain goals, objectives,
guidelines |
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f. |
Sensitivity to different perspectives
and cultures |
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g. |
Knowledge of how to cope with and
manage complicated personalities |
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h. |
Ability to motivate staff |
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i. |
Knowledge of how to conduct an
interview |
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j. |
Knowledge of how to run effective
team meetings
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k. |
Knowledge of how to develop fair
performance evaluations, including ongoing feedback |
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l. |
Knowledge of conflict resolution |
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m. |
Ability to write accurate and
professional recommendation letters |
(from the APS/ACDP
List of Professional Skills for Physiologists and Trainees)
Here are
a variety of web sites with information that you
might find useful.*
People Skills
7
Keys to Listening
Mort Orman, M.D.
Improve Your Communication Skills
Inc.com
Multicultural Toolkit (Toolkit for Cross-Cultural Collaboration)
Candia Elliott, R. Jerry Adams, and Suganya Sockalingam, Awesome Library.org
Work
Conflict, Work Violence And Difficult People & Customers Help Center
Robert Bacal, work911.com
Human Resources Procedures/Laws
Compensation
Interviewing
Performance Evaluation
Recommendation Letters
For
more information on these topics, please see
Supervising Staff/Employees in
the Postdoctoral section
*APS does not endorse or assume responsibility for the information posted
on these web sites.
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