The SUPD is organizing a series of workshops focusing on the development
of the non-research soft skills necessary to be a successful academic
manager, teacher, and mentor.
 
Goal 1: To facilitate post-doc participants in developing a career
progress plan to ensure a positive and valuable post-doc experience
and a smooth transition into a faculty position.
Goal 2: To provide training for post-docs in mentoring and personnel
management.
 
As a three-part series the workshops will complement the Scientific Management Series organised by the postdoc office. We are grateful to the support of the National Postdoc Association and Stanford Postdoc Office for funding.
 
Read the press coverage of the workshops in the Stanford Daily (Jan 30th 2008) and the NPA press release.

Lecturer: Susan McConnell, Ph.D.
Description: The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs announced release of a career progress document one year ago that will form the basis of the worksheet for this workshop. In this interactive session, participants will be asked to reflect on their successes and to think about and discuss their goals for the next year.Participants will also be guided through planning for the next 5 years, and asked to identify steps that are necessary to make these goals possible. At the end of the workshop, hopefully participants will leave with a completed worksheet to which they can refer over time.
Date: Feb 15th 2008
Time: 10:30 AM -1:30 PM
Location: Clark Center, Seminar room s360 - Directions & Map

 
Workshop Materials:

• Workshop handout
  
• Career Resource Guide
  
• Example research statemens - coming soon!
  
• Example individual development plan documents
  
• Discussion points from workshop
  

 

Lecturer: Aliki Helman
Description: In this interavtive session, participants will be introduced to different interview styles, for both one-on-one and group interviews, and will discuss the goals of an interview. Discussion topics will include, examining your needs as a job applicant and as an employer, developing interview questions to extract certain kinds of information, evaluating an applicants answers, and behavioral interview question and answer examples.
Date: March 6th 2008
Time: 1:30 -4:30 PM
Location: Alway M112, Medical Center, ground floor, Dean's courtyard. Map

 
Workshop Materials:

• Workshop slides (with comments from participants)
  
• Workshop handout
  
• Workshop handout
  
• 10 Mistakes Managers Make During Job Interviews
• Academia is no longer the only game in town
• Article from Science on academic career skills
• article on importance of being trained to hire as a post doc
• Blink Recruiting
• Corporate culture influences interview success

Topic: Managing, Motivating, and Mentoring your Workforce
Lecturer: TBA
Description: In this interavtive session, participants will be exposed to understanding and perceiving different mentoring strategies and teaching resources. For this workshop commercially available training material such as videos on education and motivation will be purchased. Participants will be asked to discuss case study situations and formulate plans for how they would approach the described situations. Role play will also be used to provide participants with hands-on experience in dealing with different situations.
Date: March 20th 2008
Time: 1:30 -4:30 PM
Location: Alway M112, Medical Center, ground floor, Dean's courtyard. Map

 
Workshop Materials:

• Workshop presentation slides
• Participant handouts
• "The Art of Possibility", available as: video or Questions? E-mail: Alison McGuigan (mcguigan at stanford.edu)