Being a Self-Advocate When Building Experience
Part of being career ready is knowing how to advocate for yourself. Self-advocacy can bedefined as an “action of representing oneself or one’s views or interests.”
Self-Advocacy and Resiliency: Essential Traits for Women in Leadership Roles
Two of the most important leadership skills are self-advocacy and resiliency, and they’re especially crucial for women who aspire to manage and lead.
Cultivating Self-Advocacy for All Students on College Campuses
The skill of self-advocacy is not only useful for supporting changes that students want to see in their institutions and beyond: It may be the most important foundational skill behind success in college.
Why Self-Advocacy Can Help You Become An Invaluable Collaborator
By understanding how to apply self-advocacy in your own life and career, you can put yourself on the path toward accomplishing your big-picture goals and even become a better collaborator.
How to Advocate for Yourself at Work as a Young Professional
This guide walks you through what it means to advocate for yourself, why it’s essential for your growth, and practical tips to help you go from overlooked to empowered—without losing your authenticity.
Science facilitation: navigating the intersection of intellectual and interpersonal expertise in scientific collaboration
This essay defines scientific facilitation as a form of interactional expertise and explains how facilitating scientific teams requires skills in managing interpersonal interactions as well as understanding how different types of disciplinary knowledge integrate in the creation of new knowledge. Next, it explains how this science facilitation expertise may be developed through metacognition. Finally, it… Read more »
Working Through Conflict: Strategies for Relationships, Groups, and Organizations
Now in its eighth edition, Working Through Conflict provides an introduction to conflict and conflict management that is firmly grounded in current theory, research, and practice, covering a range of conflict settings (interpersonal, group, and organizational).
NOAA: Dealing with Disruptive Behaviors
Improve your facilitation skills with this handy tool for dealing with disruptive behaviors in the moment.
A guide to using virtual events to facilitate community building: Making a PACT for more engaging virtual meetings and events
This guidebook focuses on the overall event planning process: We outline our PACT framework, which describes four key elements to consider when planning your meeting or event.
NIH: Collaboration Team Science Field Guide
Collaboration and Team Science: A Field Guide was first published in 2010. For nearly a decade, the Field Guide has served as a valuable resource for scientists participating in or leading a research team.
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