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Parent categories: Managing A Team
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How to Get Your Team to Challenge Your Ideas - Dave Bailey We’ve talked before about the importance of having your team being comfortable to disagree with you and offer alternative suggestions. One thing I like here is two sets of suggestions, depending on whether you tend towards over- or under-assertiveness: For the typically over-assertive Adopt the question reflex. Aim for balance in hearing everyone speak. Avoid generalization. For the typically under-assertive Over-prepare. Learn some facilitation techniques/helpful phrass Be vulnerable. Confusingly, I tend towards a...
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Bioinformatics challenges in multidisciplinary research - Mina Ali The reason I prefer to talk about Research Computing as a whole rather than research software development/systems/curated databases/…, or breaking things out into bioinformatics/data science/simulations/… , is that the same issues come up over and over again. We’ve had articles in the roundup before about setting up a data science team in an organization and the challenges of having it be its own thing (and thus isolated) vs having team members scattered and individually embedded (and so...
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Collaborating on Research Data Support - Christina Maimone This is a short and useful “what worked well/what was challenging” overview of three initiatives at Northwestern where Research Computing and the Libraries collaborated on research data support. Both entities have a lot of experience and a lot of resources around research data management, and have greater or lesser amounts of reach with different parts of the University community. Even though your research computing team and your library may be quite different, I think there’ll be a...
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