Leadership Workshop: Professional Skills Training for Graduate Students and Postdocs

Number of Participants: ~ 20 students

This workshop helps graduate students be more effective in advancing their careers. Topics include theatre concepts of expression and communication, personal strategic behavior concepts, participant stories of ineffective moments in meetings and/or negotiations, role paying of 1-3 stories chosen to illustrate and common theme among group stories. The stories, which are chosen to speak to the larger needs of all, will be played, coached and replayed with new behaviors in place. Topics commonly include relationship to advisor, getting recommendations, getting along in the lab, interviewing for jobs, dissertation defense, balancing personal life, and teaching skills. More information about COACh can be found at: http://coach.uoregon.edu. The CCR Annual Meeting organization committee is working with Dr. Geraldine Richmond, COACh Chair to develop the workshops for the Annual Meetings.

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Leadership Workshop Facilitators
COACh was formed in 1998 by a group of senior women faculty in the chemical sciences from across the U.S. with a common concern about the gender based obstacles women scientists face in trying to attain their career goals. They have expanded their program to include professional skills and leadership training for both men and women in the sciences that help empower scientists and engineers to achieve their full potential at the undergraduate, graduate and professional level.

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