Relationship Building | Part 2: Creative Communication Through Effective Storytelling Skilled and meaningful leadership draws upon relationships to help shape professional development expertise. Last month, techniques to promote leadership skills through active and engaged listening were...
Building Your Personal Program at an SRAI Conference: What Are Tracks and How Can I Use Them? A wonderful benefit of being an SRAI member is the wide range of available educational opportunities, both online and in-person. These opportunities are offered in many different formats throughout...
Relationship Building | Part 1: Lead by Listening Relationship building takes the Spotlight on a new three-part journey that showcases how distinctive relationships shape professional development expertise and career progression for research administrators. Effective and meaningful leadership...
Developing a Project Management Plan for New Principal Investigators When it comes to post-award and project management, there is a question that newly-minted principal investigators (PIs) may be thinking about (if not asking) when it comes to award and project management– I just got my PhD,...
Motivation and Retention Factors in Research Administration | Part 3: Retention Strategies The Spotlight is exploring prevailing employee motivation and retention factors in research administration. In January, historical trends in literature, as well as the methods for obtaining data, were...
Trawling Net vs. Fishing Line: Recruitment Approaches As a hiring manager or supervisor who is seeking new team members, there are numerous recruitment approaches to attract candidates to a role. This article discusses two effective, but very different strategies. Fishing Line – The...
Spotlight: Team Development | Part Two: Restructuring Your Team The Spotlight is exploring team development in the wake of the Great Resignation. This three-part series will present the concepts of building a team, restructuring a team to adapt to the changing workplace, and growing a team...
Branding Yourself We are all familiar with the power of the branding of products. Instantly, when we think of soda, Coca-Cola will immediately come to mind. When we think of online shopping, Amazon will immediately come to mind. And, when we think of research administration, SRAI will come...
The Big Leap: The Pros and Cons of Moving Away Managing the pros and cons of working 100% remotely from a new state. In 2020, COVID opened the door for me and many of my co-workers to work 100% remotely for the first time in my career. Life seemed a lot easier not having to drive into...
Project Delays | Part 3: We Have How Much Money Left?! Minimizing the Impact of Large, Unobligated Grant Balances The Spotlight concludes its summer series on project delays in funded research with a discussion of how large, unobligated balances near the end of a grant period can be...
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