Videos
- Being strategic part 1: Big picture career vision
- Being strategic part 2: Turning your career vision in to strategy
- Building trust
- Challenging relationships and conversations
- Coaching approaches - listening skills
- Coaching approaches – questions
- Developing autonomy - the continuum of leadership
- Making proactive choices
- Motivating others
- Performance management: The Johari Window
- Planning a challenging or feedback conversation
- Recognising the inner critic
- Review and stock take of progress
- Taming the inner critic
- Team Development: The big picture
- Team Development: The typical stages of group formation
- Team Development: Team dysfunction
- The ‘skill will’ matrix
- Time management
- Understanding the inner critic
Downloads
Tip sheets
- Tip sheet - five tips for a successful team vision (pdf)
- Tip sheet - five tips for creating a positive research culture (pdf)
- Tip sheet - five tips for cultural inclusion (pdf)
- Tip sheet - six tips for developing your team (pdf)
- Tip sheet - 10 time management tips (pdf)
- Tip sheet - Ten tips for running effective meetings (pdf)
- Tip sheet - Twelve tips for setting expectations with PhD students (pdf)
- Tip sheet - Quick-fire networking
- Tip sheet - SMART goal setting (pdf)
- Tip sheet - Top tips for providing recognition and positive reinforcement (pdf)
Templates and checklists
- Advice sheet - effective PhD supervision meeting agendas (pdf)
- Checklist: Are you collaboration ready? (doc)
- Coaching skills and tools (pdf)
- GROW questions (pdf) to facilitate a coaching conversation
- Induction checklist
- PhD supervision meeting agenda template (doc)
- Research team - Collaboration meeting agenda template (doc)
- Reviewing your network worksheet (doc)
- Stock take - progress review (pdf)
- Ten horizon scanning questions and a PESTLE Analysis (doc)
- Ten questions to plan a challenging or feedback conversation (doc)
Downloads and resources
- A process for delegation (pdf)
- Getting a team or collaboration off to a good start (doc)
- Lencioni team audit (pdf)
- Long read - MBTI as a tool for researchers (pdf)
- PI Code of Practice
- Questioning and listening skills questionnaire (doc)
- Supporting the Management of Research Funding (pdf)
- Work values list (pdf)
- Worked example of the trust equation (pdf)
A-Z of resources
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Research project management
Access videos and worksheets to help you manage research projects more effectively (licensed to Imperial College London only)