Cutbacks! Layoffs! Budget reductions! Like many industries, it feels like the life sciences are under siege these days. In this workplace environment, managing teams is not good enough, muddling through is not an option. Today’s teams are being asked to do more with less, overcome functional and cultural differences and devise domestic and global solutions. With these weighty agendas, R&D teams have no time for less than the highest level of performance at every team meeting, making quality decisions, meeting deadlines and sticking to a tight budget.
In this audio conference, our speaker shares expert advice on how R&D teams can get along famously, moving from discordant, wasteful, dysfunctional teams to harmonious, functioning teams through a set of “people science” solutions.
This audio conference covers:
- Five factors that increase team dysfunction and discord
- Five strategies to move a team from dysfunction to harmony
- Benefits and challenges of civil disagreement and conflict in a team environment
- Steps you can take right now to move your team from dysfunction to harmony
About the speaker:
An instructional designer, consultant and corporate coach, Susan Morris has more than 25 years of experience in strengthening leadership skills for the pharmaceutical industry, specifically R&D scientists. She has extensive experience in customized interpersonal training, program delivery, meeting facilitation, consulting to project teams and intact functional groups. Susan has worked with pharmaceutical sponsor/CRO teams to improve their skills in communicating difficult information and making hard decisions while sustaining the partnership.
Susan has a Bachelor of Arts from Douglass College-Rutgers University and a Master’s in Education from Temple University. She is qualified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® and is a CPCC (Certified Professional Co-Active Coach) and ACC (Associate Certified Coach) from the International Coach Federation.
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