THE TOPIC TODAY IS TRANSITIONING SUCCESSFULLY FROM POST DOC TO FACULTY, I WILL TALK IN SOME BROAD GENERAL TERMS ABOUT ALL TYPES OF FACULTY, BUT WILL DIRECT MY COMMENTS A LITTLE BIT BASED ON THE AUDIENCE. SO HOW MANY OF YOU ARE GOING TO RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES OR HOW MANY ARE CONSIDERING GOING. HOW MANY ARE CONSIDERING OR HAVE ACCEPTED POSITIONS WHERE MUCH OF WHAT YOU WILL DO IS TEACH? HOW MANY OF HAVE YOU CLINICAL APPOINTMENTS WHERE MUCH OF WHAT YOU WILL DO IS TREAT PATIENTS IN HEALTH SERVICE? OKAY, SO I WILL TALK SOME SLIDES SPECIFICALLY TO PEOPLE GOING TO POSITIONS THAT ARE PREDOMINANTLY TEACHING, SOME SLIDES WILL FOCUS REALLY ON RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT. I OFTEN WILL USE THE WORD LAB. I MEAN YOUR RESEARCH GROUP. IF YOU ARE DOING EPIY, SOME OF WHAT I WILL SAY WILL APPLY, SOME WON'T AND AA LOT OF WHAT I SAY WILL OVERLAP REGARDLESS OF THE TYPE OF JOB YOU HAVE OR ANTICIPATE HAVING. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T KNOW ME I'M SHARON MILGRAM, I'M THE DIRECTOR OF OFFICE OF INTRAMURAL TRAINING AND EDUCATION IS THIS THE FOURTH IN THE ACADEMIC JOB SEARCH SERIES OFFERED THROUGH THE OITE THIS YEAR. SO I SEE SOME FAMILIAR FACES, I TAKE OUD TO YOU ABOUT YOUR JOB APPLICATIONS, ABOUT YOUR NEGOTIATIONS, ABOUT INTERVIEWS, SO I HAVE A SENSE OF WHERE A FEW OF YOU ARE GOING BUT IN GENERAL JUST BY SHOW OF HANDS, HAW MOAN OF HAVE YOU A PHYSICIAN LINED UP IN ANTICIPATE LEAVING SHORTLY? HOW MANY OF YOU ARE VERY OPTIMISTIC FOR THIS YEAR AND SO YOU'RE HERE IN ANTICIPATION OF LEAVING SHORTLY? AND HOW MANY OF YOU ARE HERE TO GET INFORMATION A YEAR EARLY? OKAY, THAT'S HELPFUL TOO. I THINK THAT'S GOOD BECAUSE I WILL SAY A COUPLE OF THINGS THEY KNOW A LITTLE BIT LATE FOR SOME PEOPLE. THIS IS BEING TAPED. WE WANTED A BRAND NEW SET OF THE FOUR TALKS, SO THIS IS GOING TO BE TAPED WHICH MEANS THAT IF YOU COULD HELP ME BY REMINDING ME FIELD FUNCTIONS DON'T REPEAT THE QUESTION TO REPEAT IT. THAT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL FOR PEOPLE ON TAPE. SO I WANT TO START BY JUST MAKING IT CLEAR, HOW MUCH IT IS THAT YOU HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF. AND WHAT YOUR BIG GOALS SHOULD BE AND THEY WILL REVOLVE AROUND RESEARCH GOALS AND/OR CLINICAL GOALS AND/OR TEACHING GOALS DEPENDING ON THE POSITION YOU HAVE, SETTING UP YOUR RESEARCH GROUP, YOUR LAB, YOUR OFFICE, FINDING STUDENTS AND STAFF. YOU MAY EVEN WANT TO CONSIDER THE RATIO OF STUDENTS TO FELLOWS TO STAFF, MANY OF YOU, I KNOW ARE ALREADY THINK BEING GETTING FUNDED OR TAKING THE FUNDING THAT YOU HAVE, MAKING THE MOST OF IT, SO THAT YOU CAN GET FUNDED AGAIN, YOU WANT TO KEEP TRACK OF AND THINGS OF PUBLISHING YOUR WORK, UNIVERSITY SERVICE AND BROADER SCIENTIFIC SERVICE BECAUSE THOSE ARE ELEMENTS THAT UNDERLIE THE FOUNDATION OF TENURE AND PROMOTION PROCESSES AT UNIVERSITIES AND THEN YOU WILL WANT TO THINK ABOUT CAMPUS RELATIONSHIPS. WHO DO I NEED TO KNOW, WHO DO I NEED TO REACH OUT TO, WHAT ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT ALLIES I HAVE ON CAMPUS, WHERE ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT RESOURCES, YOU WANT TO THINK BROADLY FOR RELATIONSHIPS, WHO IN MY FIELD IS INFLUEAL AND MIGHT BE ABLE TO HELP ME WHO DO I WANT TO REACH OUT TO IN TERMS OF COLLABORATIONS, IN TERMS OF POTENTIAL LONG DISTANCE OR EACH SHORTER DISTANCE, MENTORSHIP, ET CETERA. AND THEN YOU WILL WANT TO THINK ABOUT YOUR LIFE AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS. BECAUSE TRANSITIONS, COME WITH STRESS AND STRESS IS SOMETHING WE CAN EITHER HANDLE GRACEFULLY OR WE CAN HANDLE LESS GRACEFULLY AND WE WANT THIS MOVE TO BE POSITIVE FOR BOTH PROFESSIONALLY AND PERSONALLY. AND SO MAKING SURE THAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO THE PERSON OR PEOPLE WHO MAY BE MOVING WITH YOU, WHO ARE SHARING IN THE PRIDE OF YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS, BUT ALSO THE STRESS OF NEEDING TO MAKE IT WORK, GOES A LONG WAY. AND FURTHER MORE I THINK MOST IMPORTANTLY, I WANT YOU TO REALLY CONSIDER THINKING ABOUT YOU, SO THIS IS A REALLILY BIG TRANSITION AND IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, HAVE YOU--YOU HAVE TO REALLY COME FOCUSED ON FACE AND THINK ABOUT AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE IN CHARGE AND RESPONSIBLE, NOT ONLY FOR YOUR OWN LEARNING AND YOUR OWN RESEARCH, BUT THE LEARNING AND RESEARCH OF OTHERS. RIGHT? IT'S A BIG TRANSITION, NOT JUST OH I'LL WRITE GRANTS AND I'LL BE SENIOR AUTHOR WHICH ARE ARE SOME OF THE OUTWARD TRAPPINGS OF TAKING A FACULTY POSITION BUT IT'S A TRANSITION OF RESPONSIBILITY AND A SPHERE OF INFLUENCE THAT YOU WILL NOW HAVE THAT GIVES YOU A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF POWER AND INFLUENCE TO DO GOOD. BUT IT ALSO COMES WITH THE STRESSES AND ANXIOUSS OF HOW TO MOTIVATE OTHERS AND HOW TO MANAGE THE LEARNING AND WORK OF OTHERS. SO I THINK THAT THIS IS JUST STRESSFUL. AND I THINK THE FIRST STEP IN DEALING WITH ANY TYPE OF STRESS IS TAKING CARE OF YOURSELF AND CONSIDERING YOUR OWN WELLNESS, OKAY? SO I WANT TO ENCOURAGE ALL OF YOU BEFORE YOU LEAVE AND IN THE MOMENT, WHILE YOU'RE MAKE THANKSGIVING TRANSITION TO THINK OF THESE IMPORTANT THINGS. SO WHAT ENERGIZES, NURTURES AND SUSTAINS YOU. WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, WHERE DO YOU GO TO GET ENERGY. WHERE DO YOU RECHARGE YOUR BATTERY AFTER A ROUGH DAY, A ROUGH WEEK, A ROUGH MONTH HA SMS LIKE A LONG STRETCH OF ROUGH GOING THERE, WHAT ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT NONWORK ACTIVITIES AND HOBBIES, AND THE REASON I STRESS THAT IS, TIME AND TIME AGAIN WHEN I TALK TO FELLOWS ABOUT TRANSITIONS AND WHEN I TALK TO EARLY STAGE FACULTY ABOUT TRANSITIONS, WHAT I'VE LEARNED IS THOSE WHO FIND TIME FOR WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT TO THEM, TEND TO DEAL WITH THE STRESS BETTER AND WHEN WE DEAL WITH STRESS BETTER WE MAKE BETTER DECISIONS. WE DON'T WANT IS TO GET INTO THIS POSITION OF SORT OF KACCT TAFT RAIFIESING EVERYTHING--BEING REACTFUL. SO WHATEVER IT IS THAT GIVES YOU ENERGY THAT MAKES YOU FEEL POSITIVE AND ENERGETIC ABOUT YOURSELF, THAT LETS YOU GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD AND LET GO OF THE STRESS, YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT IS AND HOLD ON TO IT SOMEHOW. YOU ALSO NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE INTERNAL WORKING OF YOU AND HOW YOU DEAL WITH TRANSITIONS AND STRESS AND WHAT IS IT THAT MINIMIZES STRESS? WHAT DO YOU NEED TO REMIND YOURSELF ABOUT YOUR PAST SUCCESSES SO THAT CAN YOU OLD ON IN THE MOMENT OF TRANSITION, YOU WANT TO KNOW AND THINK ABOUT HOW YOU DEAL WITH SET BACK AND DISAPPOINTMENT. SO, THERE WILL BE LONG STANDING THERE WILL BE DREAM PROJECTS THAT CRASH AND BURN AND TAKE USUAL DIRECTIONS THAT YOU WEREN'T ANTICIPATING. THERE WILL BE STUDENT WHO IS DON'T LIVE UP TO YOUR EXPECTATIONS RIGHT AT THE START. YOU WILL REALIZE HOW HARD IT IS TO BE THE BOSS EVERY DAY, AND HOW WE DEAL WITH THAT HAS A LOT TO DO WITH HOW SUCCESSFUL WE ARE IN THE LONG-TERM SO I REALLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO THINK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT AS WELL. IF YOU TEND TO BE A GLASS HALF EMPTY KIND OF PERSON, THAT'S A HARD WAY TO START OUT YOUR RESEARCH GROUP. WE NEED TO BE OPTIMISTIC, REALLY, I THINK TO DO THIS AND DO IT GRATEFULLY AND IT IS AN AMAZING ADVENTURE AND YOU HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO HAVE SUCH INFLUENCE AND DO REALLY IMPORTANT WORK, SO YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO MAINTAIN YOUR OPTIMISM TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN. SO IF YOU TEND TO BE A GLASS HALF EMPTY KIND OF PERSON, I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO START BY READING SOME OF THE WORK BY MARTIN SELAZMAN ON LEARNED OPTIMISM AND HOW WE CAN SORT OF TRAIN OURSELVES TO BE SOMEWHAT MORE OPTIMISTIC IN OUR APPROACH TO SET BACK. YOU WANT TO THINK ABOUT YOUR RESILIENCY, HOW DO YOU MAINTAIN YOUR RESILIENCY IF YOU THINK THAT'S SOMETHING YOU NEED TO WORK ON, HOW MIGHT YOU DEVELOP ADDITIONAL RESILIENCY, YOU NEED TO BOUNCE BACK FROM SET BACKS. AND THEN FINALLY, IF EVER THERE WAS A TIME WHEN YOU WOULD SAY, REALLY, THEY HIRED ME, WHAT WERE THEY ALL THINKING, RIGHT? EVER A TIME OF SELF-DOUBT, IT'S AT THIS TRANSITION. OKAY? SOME THINGS THAT YOU PICTURED GOING PERFECTLY, HIT A BUMP OR TWO, THE UNIVERSITY IS A GREAT FIT AND IT IS GOING TO BE THE RIGHT PLACE, BUT YOU START TO SEE THE PLACES WHERE IT'S SLIGHTLY RUBBED THE WRONG WAY, IRRITATES YOU, AND WE START TO LET SELF-DOUBT CREEP IN. ALL OF YOU HAVE PROBABLY HAD TIMES LIKE THAT, IF YOU HAVEN'T, I'M REALLY GOING TO SAY I THINK THAT'S GREAT AND I HOPE THAT CONTINUES BUT IF YOU ARE SOMEONE WHO HAS SELF-DOUBTS IN THOSE NEGATIVE HEADACHES OF OH, TODAY'S THE DAY THEY'LL FIGURE OUT I DON'T REALLY BELONG. TODAY'S THE DAY THAT I'LL, YOU KNOW REALIZE I SHOULD BE DOING SOMETHING ELSE, THEY'LL REALIZE IT AS WELL. YOU KNOW, THIS WHOLE GIG IS COMING TO ANENT, THEN YOU WANT TO THINK ABOUT WAYS TO DEAL WITH THAT. BECAUSE THERE ARE GREAT STRATEGIES AND THERE WILL BE DAYS YOU WILL SAY, OH, DOCTOR--SHE OR HE, IS DOWN THE HALL. THERE WILL BE DAYS YOU FEEL LIKE NOT OWNING THE OWNERSHIP OF THE RESEARCH ENTERPRISE AND YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW YOU'RE GOING TO DEAL WITH THAT. OKAY. SETTING UP A RESEARCH GROUP IS AS MANY PEOPLE REFLECT ON IT, ONE OF THE MOST EXHILARATING TIMES BUT IT IS REALLY A TIME WHEN YOU WANT TO PULL THIS SLIDE OUT AND REMIND YOURSELF THAT YOU'VE GOTTEN THIS FAR AND YOU'VE GOTTEN THIS FAR ON A WHOLE LOT OF HARD WORK AND TALENT AND PROBABLY SOME LUCK AND SOME MADE LUCK, RIGHT? , LUCK THAT YOU WENT OUT AND GENERATED ON YOUR OWN. THAT YOU CAN DO IT, THAT HAVE YOU THE RESOURCES, ET CETERA. SO I WON'T BELABOR THIS A WHOLE LOT MORE EXCEPT TO SAY IT WAYS ON ME HEAVILY WHEN I WATCH PEOPLE POISE FOR SUCCESS, REALLY GET MIRED IN THE STRESSES OF THE TRANSITION. I SEE HAD HAPPEN HERE, I SAW IT HAPPEN AT CHAPEL HILL. I HAD TO REALLY IN SETTING UP MY LAB FOR MYSELF, A LONG TIME AGO, I MOMENT WHERE I THINK IF A MENTOR HADN'T STEPPED IN AND TOLD ME HOW TO PUT THINGS BACK IN PERSPECTIVE IT MIGHT HAVE TAKEN A TURN FOR THE WORSE AND I CAN'T STRESS ENOUGH, THAT IT'S WORTH SPENDING SOME TIME ON THIS SLIDE. HOWEVER TODAY WE ARE GOING TO LEAVE THAT FIRST SLIDE AND WE WILL TALK ABOUT NUTS AND BOLTS. BUT I HOPE YOU GO BACK AND REALLY THINK THERE A BIT. ALL RIGHT, SO TO HIT THE GROUND RUN HANDWRITING YOU GET THERE AND ONE OF THE THINGS TO APPRECIATE IS YOU HAVE A LONG TIME TO PROVE YOURSELF, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, PEOPLE ARE WATCHING AT THE BEGINNING WHEN YOU ARRIVE AND THEY'RE MAKING JUDGMENTS, QUICKLY AND SO IF YOU GET THERE, AND YOU ARE TOGETHER AND ORGANIZED AND HAVE A SET OF PRIORITIES, AND YOU START EXECUTING THEM, YOU ARE GIVING REALLY GREAT SIGNALS OF YOUR LONG-TERM POTENTIAL AND PEOPLE TEND TO RESPOND TO THAT VERY FAVORABLY. RIGHT? YOU WANT TO HIT THE GROUND RUNNING FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS. SO, FIRST GET YOUR PERSONAL LIFE IN ORDER. MOVE, GET SETTLED, CHANGE YOUR DRIVER'SA LICENSE, WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO DO WITH DAY CARE, WITH THE CABLE GUY, WITH INTERNET, DO WHAT IT TAKES TO BE SETTLED. BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT TO CONSTANTLY BE RUNNING BACK AND FORTH DEALING WITH LITTLE DETAILS AND THE STRESS OF MOVING TO A NEW ENVIRONMENT COUPLED WITH THE STRESS OF A NEW JOB AND I KNOW LOT OF YOU ARE MOVING SORT OF MEANS LIKE AN EXPANSION OF ALL OF THE STRESS FELT GET YOUR PERSONAL LIFE SETTLED. FIND OR RECONNECT WITH THE MENTORS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO GO TO FOR BOTH SCIENTIFIC ADMICE, LETTERSHIP ADVICE, GRANT WRITING ADVICE, ET CETERA. YOU WANT A TEAM OF PEOPLE WILLING TO GIVE YOU ADVICE, RECONNECT WITH GRADUATE ADVISORS THAT YOU REALLY TRUST, POST DOC ADVISORS, OBVIOUSLY MOST OF YOU ARE HERE NOW DOING A POST DOC, BUT THERE MIGHT BE A FIRST POST DOC, SOMEBODY YOU COLLABORATED WITH THAT YOU CAN RELY ON, AND BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR MENTORS ON YOUR CAMPUS AS WELL. NOW I KNOW SOME OF THE OFFER LETTERS THAT YOU SHARED WITH ME, SAY WE HAVE A FORMAL MENTORING PROGRAM, REACH OUT TO SO AND SO, THIS PERSON IS GOING TO BE YOUR MENTOR AT LEAST AT THE OUTSET, SO THAT'S A GREAT WAY TO BEGIN, BUT YOU BE ON THE LOOK OUT YOURSELF FOR PEOPLE WHO FEEL LIKE A NATURAL FIT. AND IF YOU ARE TAKING A POSITION AT A UNIVERSITY THAT DOESN'T HAVE A FORMAL MENTORING PROGRAM, BUILD IT FOR YOURSELF. YOU WANT ADVICE ALONG THE WAY, YOU WANT TO ESTABLISH REALISTIC FIRST, YOUR GOALS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, THAT REALLY TIES INTO FINDING MENTORS BECAUSE I THINK SOME OF THE STRESS COMES FROM SETTING UNREALISTIC FIRST YEAR GOALS. OKAY? AND IT HELPS A LOT TO HAVE SOMEBODY WHOSE SEEN LOTS OF OTHER PEOPLE DO IT BEFORE YOU, TELL YOU, THIS IS REASONABLE, THIS IS AMBITIOUS, THIS IS VERY AMBITIOUS. THIS IS ENERGY PUT MAYBE IN THE WRONG PLACE, HOW ABOUT RETHINKING THIS? ALL RIGHT, SO SET SOME GOALS. YOU WILL NEED TO GET SET UP, BUY WHAT YOU NEED, THAT INCLUDES SETTING UP YOUR OFFICE, THAT MEANS GETTING YOUR COMPUTERS ALL GOING FROM NUTS AND BOLTS TRIVIAL THINGS, THERE'S A LOT OF REQUIREMENTED APPROVALS AND PAPERWORK. YOU WILL NEED TO GENERATE. ASK OTHER PEOPLE FOR TEMPLATES, RIGHT? , YOU ARE NOT THE FIRST PERSON TO HAVE TO GENERATE SAFETY PLAN. ALL RIGHT, YOU'RE NOT THE FIRST PERSON WHO HAS TO WRITE ABOUT HOW YOU'RE GOING TO GET RID OF YOUR BIOHAZARD WASTE. YOU'RE NOT THE FIRST PERSON TO WRITE RADIOACTIVE PROTOCOL, OKAY? YOU WILL WANT TO ESPECIALLY PAY ATTENTION TO PAPERWORK RELATING TO IRBs, PAPERS FOR ANIMAL APPROVALS AND THEY TAKE A LONG TIME BECAUSE WITHOUT YOUR ANIMAL APPROVALS OR HUMAN SUBJECT APPROVALS SOME OF YOU WON'T BELIEVE ABLE TO GET STARTED. YOU WILL WANT TO MAKE A PLAN FOR HIRING STAFF OR RECRUITING STUDENTS AND I WILL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS LATER AND I HOPE MANY OF YOU GET A CHANCE TO TAKE THE TODAY OITE MANAGEMENT BOOT CAMP WHERE WE TALK MORE ABOUT HOW TO HIRE AND THEN REMEMBER THAT ONE OF YOUR GOALS IS TO INTEGRATE INTO DEPARTMENT AND UNIVERSITY LIFE. SO SOME OF YOU MAY BE NATURALLY EXTROVERTED AND HAVE A TENDENCY TO WANT TO GO TO ALL SEMINARS, ALL ACTIVITIES, GO FOR THE COFFEE BEFORE HAND. THERE WILL BE COOKIES FOR THE MOST PART UNLIKE NIH SEMINARS WHERE WE GET AWAY WITH THE COOKERS ACOUPLE OF YEARS OOPING. SO SOME OF YOU MAY NATURALLY WANT TO DO THIS AND SOME OF YOU MAY THINK BETTER TO STAY IN MY OFFICE AND WRITE OR PREPARE MY LECTURE OR DO AN EXPERIMENT BUT REMEMBER YOU'RE TRYING TO BUILD BRIDGES, TRYING TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS, TRYING TO FIND COLLABORATIONS RIGHT THERE. YOU MIGHT BE SHARING STUDEN YOU MIGHT BE SHARING EQUIPMENT, YOU MIGHT BE GOING TO SOMEBODY, WANTING THEIR EXPERTISE AND YOU WANT PEOPLE TO COME TO YOU SO THAT YOU CAN BE A PART OF COLLABORATIONS THAT BENEFIT YOU SO PAY ATTENTION TO GO INTO SHOULD SMINGS. YOU NEED TO BE PRESENT, YOU WANT YOUR LAB AND PEOPLE THAT YOU HIRE TO BE PRESENT AS WELL SO THAT YOU GET INTEGRATED, THE OTHER REASON FOR THAT IS THAT I CHUCKLE ABOUT BECAUSE IT'S HAPPENED NOW, THREE TIMES SO I SET UP MY LAB IN CHAPEL HILL, AND THEN WHEN I WENT ON SEBATICAL, I CHANGED DEPARTMENTS AND MOVED BUILDINGS SO THAT WAS A SECOND LAB SET UP AND THEN WE CAME HERE IN 2007. AND I SWEAR THAT EACH OF THOSE MOVES FOR AT LEAST ONE YEAR, THERE WAS NO EXPERIMENT, WE DID WHERE WE DIDN'T HAVE TO BORROW SOMETHING. ALL RIGHT. WE THOUGHT WE HAD EVERYTHING, BUT WE HAD TO BORROW SOMETHING, OR USE SOMEBODY ELSE'S EQUIPMENT AND SO THE MORE PEOPLE YOU KNOW, THE MORE PEOPLE YOU CAN BORROW FROM. THE MORE PEOPLE THAT CAN YOU GO TO AND SAY, YOU KNOW I DON'T HAVE THIS PIECE OF EQUIPMENT BUT I NEED TO GET STARTED SO PAY ATTENTION TO GETTING INTEGRATED. ALL RIGHT? SO THERE SHOULD BE REAL QUIET TIME FOR YOU TO THINK, CONTEMPLATE, PLAN, WRITE, DO YOUR OWN EXPERIMENTS. THERE SHOULD BE SOMETIME WHERE YOU'RE ENGAGED ACTIVELY WITH PEOPLE WITHIN YOUR GROWING RESEARCH GROUP BUT THERE ARE TIME WHEN IS YOU ARE ENGAGE WIDE THE STUDENTS IN YOUR DIDN'T, DIRECTORS IN YOUR DEPARTT, CORE, LEADERSHIP AT THE UNIVERSITY, ET CETERA. FIND TIME FOR ALL OF THEM. DON'T JUST GET FOCUSED ON ALL OF THEM AND OPPOSITE AND RIGHT. FOR THOSE OF YOU SETTING UP A WED LAB I'LL MAKE COMMENTTHREE SLIDES WORTH. THE FIRST IS YOU MAY HAVE SPACE AS TO WHERE YOU WILL BE, BY THE TIME YOU'RE READY TO MOVE, YOU SHOULD HAVE SOME SENSE OF HOW RENOVATED IT IS OR NOT, I GOT AN E-MAIL TODAY FROM AN NIH FELLOW WHO LEFT LAST YEAR WHO TOLD ME, FINALLY, ALL OF THE OLD THINGS FROM THE PREVIOUS INHABITANTS ARE GONE. SO YOU MAY REALLY NEED TO CLEAN UP BEFORE YOU CAN SET UP. YOU MAY HAVE TO STRUGGLE TO HAVE RENOVATIONS DONE ON TIME, SO IF YOUR SPACE AND BEING RENOVATED AND YOU'RE ANTICIPATING ARRIVING AND SETTING UP ON DAY ONE, VERIFY THAT. MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHERE THE RENOVATIONS ARE, YOU MAY HEAR THAT THEY'RE SLOW AND YOU MAY CHOOSE TO AT A HERE ON CAMPUS A LITTLE WHILE LONGER. YOU MAY HAVE THINGS YOU WANT TO SEE WHEN YOU'RE TEACHING OR THINGS YOU WANT TO WRITE. YOU NEVER KNOW. YOU CAN OFTEN SET UP YOUR LAB HOWEVER YOU WISH BUT GENERALLY YOU WILL BE IN WHAT'S NOW CONSIDERED OPEN SPACE OR MORE TRADITIONAL SPACE WHERE EACH PERSON HAS THEIR OWN SMALL OR LARGE ROOMS. PEOPLE IN OPEN SPACE HAVE THE ADDED NEED TO ESTABLISH RELATIONSHIPS WITH PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES AND THE MORE CORDIAL COLLEGIAL FRIENDLY INTERACTIVE POSITIVES, THOSE RELATIONSHIPS ARE, THE BETTER SCIENCE AND THE WORK ENVIRONMENT IS. SO YOU WANT TO THINK ABOUT HOW YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN. YOU WILL NEED SPACE, DESK, EQUIPMENT AND STORAGE. IF YOU PUT ALL OF THIS OFF AND LET IT DEVELOP ORGANICALLY AS PEOPLE POPULATE YOUR GROUP AND DO THINGS THEN YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT WHATEVER HAPPENS. IF YOU WANT REAL STRUCTURALLY NUR HOW YOU ORGANIZE THINGS, HOW YOU SCORE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO YOUR BEST TO GET IT FIGURED OUT IN ADVANCE. YOU WANT TO BE OPEN TO IDEAS TO PEOPLE IN YOUR GROUP. I'M NOT ONE FOR ORGANIZING, THIS IS ONE FOR LET'S JUST WORK ON THIS SMALL SPACE HERE THAT'S EMPTY AND WE WILL WORRY ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE LATER AND I HAVE TO SAY PEOPLE WHO JOINED MY GROUP EARLY ON TOOK THE LEAD ON THAT BUT I LEARNED IN SOME WAYS THE HARD WAY THAT BECAUSE I DIDN'T DO IT UP FRONT THAT IT HAPPENED OR IT HAPPENED BACK IN A WAY THAT IN THINKING BACK IS ILLOGICAL. YOU CAN CONFIGURE THEY THINKS IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS AND THERE ARE GENERAL TWO MAIN APPROACHES, INDIVIDUAL BASE MEANING EACH PERSON HAS THEIR SPACE AND THEY GO AND GET COMMON THINGS AND THEY BRING IT TO THEIR SPACE AND THEY DO THE EXPERIMENT, OKAY? THEY DO WHATEVER THEY'RE GOING TO DO, IF IT'S RUNNING A JAIL, FOR EXAMPLE, THEY RUN, THEY SET UP THE BOX AND ON THEIR SPACE AND THEY RUN IT. OR CAN YOU HAVE AN ASSAY BASED AREA. EVERYBODY HAS A SMALL WORK SPACE AND HERE'S THE PLACE FOR PC R. HERE'S THE PLACE FOR GELS, HERE'S THE PLACE FOR DOING TRANSFORMATIONS OR YOU COULD DO A HYBRID OF THAT WHERE APPROPRIATE, SO THERE ARE THINGS WE ARE GOING TO DO ON OUR OWN SPACE AND THERE ARE THINGS WE'RE GOING TO DO IN A COMMON SPACE. THERE IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG. SOME PEOPLE LOVE ONE WAY OVER THE OTHER, SOME PEOPLE SWEAR BY ONE OVER THE OTHER. YOU DO WHAT'S RIGHT FOR YOU AND THINK IT UP IN A WAY THAT'S CONDUCIVE TO MAKING THAT WORK, I ENCOURAGE TWO THINGS ABOUT YOU SO YOU ARE THE MOST PRODUCTIVE PERSON IN YOUR GROUP AT THE OUTSET, YOU ARE THE PERSON WHO COULD LEAD BY EXAMPLE AND REALLY HAVE A POSITIVE IMPACT, SO, IF YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A WORK SPACE AND I HOPE THAT YOU DO, YOU SHOULD TRY TO RETAIN A CONNECTION TO DOING YOUR OWN WORK, PUT IT IN A SEBTERAL SPOT, PUT IT WHERE IT'S EASY TO CHAT WITH OTHER PEOPLE, PUT IT WHERE YOU CAN SEE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE DOING, NOT THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE THIS DRACONIAN MICRO MANAGER WATCHING EVERY MOVE, RIGHT? WE DON'T WANT TO DO THAT BUT SO THAT YOU ARE THERE AND PRESENT AND A PART OF THE RESEARCH ENTERPRISE. FURGTSER MORE, IF GIVEN AN OPTION, KEEP YOUR OFFICE CLOSE BY. , YOU WANT THEM TO COME WITH YOU, COME TO YOU WITH IDEAS, WITH QUESTIONS, WITH PROBLEMS TO TELL YOU WHAT'S WHAT'S RIGHT AND WRONG, THE EDUCATION LEVELS WITH THESE INDIVIDUALS AND THEY WILL BE THE ONES TO TAKE YOU THROUGH THIS TRANSITION, THE FIRST PEOPLE YOU HIRE ARE REALLY KEY PEOPLE, SO YOU WANT TO BE CLOSE AND AVAILABLE SO IF YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL OFFICE WITH A GREAT VIEW BUT IT'S PRETTY FAR AWAY, OR A NOT SO NICE OFFICE WITH NOT SO GREAT A VIEW, BUT IT'S CLOSE BY. THINK ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF IT BEING CLOSE BY. ANY GENERAL COMMENTS ABOUT WHAT LAB SPACE? SOME OF HAVE YOU ALREADY DONE SOME MAJOR PURCHASES, SOME OF YOU ARE CONSIDEING MAJOR PURCHASES AND SO I'M NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH THIS FROM TOP TO BOTTOM BUT THIS IS A LIST OF QUESTIONS THAT I THINK ARE HELPFUL TO ASK YOURSELF BEFORE YOU BUY. SOMETIMES IT SEEMS LIKE HAVE YOU A BIG BUDGET AND A LOT OF ENERGY GETTING STARTED AND THE TENDENCY IS TO BUY, BUY, BUY AT LEAST FOR SOME PEOPLE, BUT YOU WANT TO ASK YOURSELF HOW OFTEN AM I GOING TO NEED THIS, DO I NEED ALL THE BELLS AND WHISTLES DO I HAVE THE SPACE FOR THIS. IS IT A REALLY SERIOUS AND IMMEDIATE NEED OR COULD I WAIT AND SEE HOW THINGS DEVELOPMENT YOU WANT TO LOOK AROUND AND SEE WHAT YOU CAN SHARE AND USE IN OTHER PEOPLE'S SPACE. NOW THE FLIP SIDE OF RUSHING OUT AND BUYING PEOPLE WHO ARE SO CAREFUL AND SO PLANFUL AND SO CAUTIOUS THAT THEY DON'T BUY WHAT THEY NEED SO I DON'T MEAN TO IMPLY, USE TO STOP YOURSELF, IF YOU GET DOWN IN THIS, THIS IS A MAIN STAY, I WILL MAKE OR BREAK MY SUCCESS AS AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ON HAVING ACCESS TO THIS, WHEN I NEED IT, YOU KNOW WITH THE EXACTLY THE CONFIGURURATION THAT I NEED AND YES I CAN AFFORD IT AND IT IS WORTH IT. THEN MOVE FORWARD. NOT MEANT ONLY AS A CHECK, IT'S ALSO HELPED TO KNOW WHEN YOU SHOULD BUY. THEN ONE OTHER COMMENT ABOUT SETTING UP YOUR SPACE, SO IT'S SHOPPING, YOU WILL GO SHOPPING FOR A LOT OF OF THINGS, CAN FEEL OVERWHAMMING, LAUGH ALL THE TIME WHEN I THINK TO MY ORIGINAL SET OF FIRST SET OF PURCHASES WHERE I NEVER THOUGHT THAT WELL, WE DIDN'T DIDN'T NEED CELL CULTURE AND PIPETTES AND PLATES AND ET CETERA NOT FOR A LONG, LONG TIME SO OUR FIRST ORDER LIKE IT USED TO JOKE IT WILL LAST ME THROUGH TENURE ONLY THE PLASTIC GOES BAD, RIGHT? SO IT'S AN UNFORTUNATE CHOICE. SO SURVEY YOUR CURRENT WORK ENVIRONMENT NOW, HAVE A NOTEBOOK, JOT DOWN WHAT YOU USED, SOME OF IT IS SIMPLE, NOW THEY THINK ABOUT IT THERE'S GOT TO BE A Q. R. CODE SCANNER THAT WILL LET YOU SCAN THINGS AND START A LIST AND THERE'S GOT TO BE AN APP LIKE THAT IF NOT WE SHOULD START IT BUT HAVE A LIST SO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE USING NOW, YOU KNOW I'M NOT GOING TO USE THIS WHEN I MOVE, DON'T WRITE IT DOWN BUT IF IT'S SOMETHING YOU'RE GOING TO USE, WRITE IT DOWN. THINK ABOUT IMMEDIATE RESEARCH PLANS, NOT FOREVER, SOPHISTICATED SOME THINGS WILL GO ON IN ANOTHER PAGE OF I MIGHT NEED TO BUY THIS LATER BUT I DO NOT NEED IT NOW. BEFORE YOU START BUYING MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND LOCAL PURCHASING RULES AND REGULATIONS. MAKE SURE ALSO THAT YOU HAVE APPROPRIATE STORAGE IN PLACE, YOU DO NOT WANT SHIPMENTS COMING IN BEFORE THE ALARM ON YOUR FRIES--FREEZER IS SET UP. YOU DON'T WANT YOUR CELL CULTURE STUFF TO ARRIVE WHILE THEY'RE STILL DRILL NOTHING--DRILLING IN THE CELL CULTURE AREA. IN TERMS OF RULES AND REGULATIONS MANY OF THEM WILL PLAY OUT IN YOUR FAVOR BECAUSE THERE ARE DISCOUNTS, UNIVERSITIES BUY IN BULK. THERE ARE FREEZERS AND CLOSETS AND STORE ROOMS BEFORE YOU GET A BIG DISCOUNT SO BEFORE YOU JUMP SPEND TIME LOOKING AT ALL OF THAT AND THEN ALSO BE AWARE THAT A LOT OF VENDOR VS NEW LAB SPECIALS. SO I KNOW PEOPLE WHO SAY AVOID THE SALES PEOPLE AT ALL COSTS, NOT A BAD TIME TO MEET THE SALES REP FROM THE MAJOR SUPPLIERS IN YOUR FIELD. LET THEM KNOW YOU'RE STARTING A LAB, LET THEM KNOW WHAT YOUR NEEDS ARE AND YOU MAY BE SURPRISED AT THE GREAT DISCOUNTS YOU GET. WE GOT LOTS AND LOTS OF HELP FIRST IN CHAPEL HILL, BUT THEN WHEN WE GOT HERE, WHEN OUR CHAPEL HILL REP KNEW THAT WE WERE MOVING SO MAKE SURE YOU CHAT WITH A VEND OR AND FINE OUT ABOUT NEW LAB SPECIALS. A COUPLE THINGS PEOPLE OVERLOOK, I MENTIONED ALL OF THESE OR MOST OF THESE ALREADY DO NOT FORGET YOUR IR COOK AND IRB APPROVALS. THEY TAKE TIME. NEW FACULTY MEET AROUND A REVISION OR TWO ROUNDS OF VERMEN INFECTED VISION AND SO IT'S WORTH GETTING STARTED EARLY. THE NIH HAS MADE SOME OF THEIR GRANT REQUIREMENTS FOR THESE ASSURANCES TO BE JUST IN TIME MEANING YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE THEM COMPLETE TO SUBMIT YOUR GRANT BUT MANY UNIVERSITIES REQUIREMENT THEM TO BE FINALIZED BEFORE SUBMISSION. FURTHER MORE BEFORE YOU PURCHASE ANIMALS, EVERYTHING HAS TO BE IN PLACE AND OBVIOUSLY WHEN IT COMES TO IRB AND HUMAN SUBJECTS THERE'S NO LEGAL ROOM TO--LET ME JUST FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET AROUND THIS. SO TALK TO PEOPLE NOW SO THAT YOU'RE WRITING, SO THAT THEY'RE SUBMITTED SO THAT YOU'RE GETTING ADVICE FROM EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS. THERE IS A LOT OF REQUIREMENTS AND TRAINING AND PAPERWORK, I KNOW YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE BELIEVING THAT BEHIND WHEN YOU LEFT NIH, THERE'S JUST ANOTHER SET OF REQUIREMENTS AND PAPERWORK PEOPLE ASK ME WHEN I DO CAREER PANELS ABOUT BY TRANSEXCISION SAY AREN'T YOU HORRIFIED BY THEEUR OKRASY OF NIH, I SAID IT'S IT'S A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT BUREAUCRACY THAN I HAD AT A UNIVERSITY. SO YOU WILL HAVE A NEW SET OF REQUIREMENTS, GET IT OUT OF THE WAY. THOSE OF YOU MOVING LOTS OF ANIMALS OR NEEDING TO PURCHASE ANIMALS YOU WILL NEED TO DO ADVANCED PLANNING TO TAKE CARE OF THAT THE TRANSFER OF MICE FROM ONE INSTITUTION TO ANOTHER IS A LABORIOUS TIME CONSUMING PROCESS, START BY TALKING HERE AND THERE AND THEN YOU GET THE APPROPRIATE PEOPLE IN TOUCH ONCE YOU'VE DONE EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO DO. AND THEN FINALLY, LOTS OF YOU WILL NEED CORE FACILITIES, THAT WILL BE RUNNING SAMPLES, USING EQUIPMENT, ESTABLISH RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEM. YOU DON'T WANT TO SHOW UP ON THE DAY HAVE YOU YOUR MOST IMPORTANT FIRST EXPERIENT AND BE INTRODUCING YOURSELF THEN. YOU WANT TO GO, YOU WANT WANT TO MEET THEM AND TALK ABOUT YOUR GOALS ABOUT THE WAY YOU DO TS, YOU WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THE WAY THEY DO THINGS, THE WAY THEY CHARGE, WHAT THE BEST WAY OF HAVING SUCCESS IN THE RELATIONSHIP IS. SO SOME THINGS THAT ARE OVERLOOKED SO I'M GOING TO PAUSE THERE, THAT'S SOME OF THE NUTS AND BOLTS AND I WILL GO TO MORE OF A RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT AND MANAGING YOUR ADVANCEMENT, ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FRONT? >> ALL RIGHT, OKAY, SO THINGS YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL, IN THE FIRST THING YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE BELIEF THAT YOU WILL BE SUCCESSFUL, OKAY? SO I'VE TALKED TO MANY, MANY FELLOWS THROUGH THE YEARS AND I HAVE HEARD A LOT OF REALLY POSITIVE STORIES ABOUT HOW INSTITUTIONS ARE SETTING THINGS UP TO SUPPORT EARLY FACULTY MEMBERS ABOUT PROGRAMS THAT ARE IN PLACE TO HELP YOU GET FUNDED. YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT IF YOU WERE RECRUITED AND HIRED THAT THE UNIVERSITY AND INSTITUTION IS VESTED IN YOUR SUCCESS. OKAY. BUT YOU NEED TO BELIEVE FIRST, AND FOREMOST THAT YOU WILL BE SUCCESSFUL, CLEARLY THEY DO. OR ELSE THEY WOULD NOT HAVE MADE THE OFFER. OKAY? SO THAT'S NUMBER ONE. BEYOND THAT YOU WILL NEED FEEDBACK RELEVANT TO YOUR RESEARCH PROJECT. FEEDBACK RELEVANT TO YOUR TEACHING OR CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES, ACCESS TO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES ACCIDENT ACCESS TO APPROPRIATE NETWORKS, ON AND OFF CAMPUS. MOSTLY SCIENTIFIC NETWORKS, RELATED TO ADVANCING YOUR RESEARCH CAREER BUT HER HAPPENS IF YOU ARE AT A COLLEGE RELATED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW COURSES, SO RELATED TO NETWORKS, RELATED TO YOUR PED GOAJY SUPERBOWLS AND YOU'RE GOING TO NEED A SENSE OF COMMUNITY AND PERSONAL SUPPORT. SO LONG TIME. YOU NEED TO SET UP, YOU NEED YOUR RESEARCH GROUP TO INTEGRATE, YOU NEED TO CONSIDER YOU, THE COOL NEW FACULTY MEMBER TO GO TO. ALL RIGHT, THE PERSON WHO'S CLASSES WE WANT TO TAKE AND WHO WE WANT TO WORK IN, WHO WE WANT ON OUR COMMITTEES AND WHO WE WANT TO TALK WITH ON OUR OWN RESEARCH SO YOU NEED A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS TO BE SUCK SAYSFUL FOR THOSE OF YOU TEACHING, THIS WILL BE PUT OFF RIGHT AWAY. IT WILL BE THE DETERMINANT OF THE SUCCESS OF THE INSTITUTION, WE WILL TALK ABOUT TEACHING A LITTLE BIT. SO FIRST IS LEARN ABOUT ON CAMPUS RESOURCES, I HOPE THOSE OF YOU GOING TO PHYSICIANS WITH A LOT OF TEACHING HAVE HAD A CHANCE TO TAKE THE SCIENTIST TEACHING SCIENCE PEDAGOGY COURSE WE OFFER HERE OR AN EQUIVALENT ONE WHERE YOU TRAINED BEFORE, BUT EVEN WITH THAT KIND OF TRAINING IN PED GOAJY, BEING IN THE CLASSROOM AND GETTING STARTED AND DEALING WITH THE CONSTELLATION OF STUDENTS ON THE CAMPUS WHERE YOU ARE IS A CHALLENGE. OKAY, I DON'T MEAN THAT IN ANY NEGATIVE WAY, IT'S JUST THAT ONCE YOU'RE IN THE CLASSROOM FULL-TIME, ONCE YOU HAVE A REAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE STUDENT BODY AND THE WAY THAT STUDENT BODY DOES THINGS, SORT OF THE CULTURE OF THE CAMPUS, SUDDENLY ETHING YOU LEARNED IN THE CLASSROOM, YOU KNOW PALES IN COMPARISON TO LEARN NOTHING REALTIME. SO MANY UNIVERSITIES HAVE CENTERS FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING, RIGHT? THAT WILL OFFER WORKSHOPS THAT WILL COME AND OBSERVE YOU THAT MAY TEACH YOU ABOUT TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM, THEY MAY USE DIFFERENT WEB-BASED TEACHING TOOLS THAN YOU'RE USED TO, QUICKER TECHNOLOGY, MAYBE STABBED ARD AT THAT UNIVERSITY, PLEM BASED LEARNING, SMALL GROUPS, CASE STUDIES, ET CETERA. SO FIND THE ON CAMPUS RESOURCE, DO NOT SPEND TIME RECREATING IT YOURSELF. THE MORE RESOURCES CAN YOU GET OR THE EQUIVALENT ORGANIZATION, THE BETTER TALK WITH OTHERS ABOUT THE TYPES YOU WILL BE TEACHING SO THAT YOU GET INFORMATION ABOUT THIS STUDENT GROUP, ONE OF MY STUDENT WHO IS STRUGGLED INITIALLY IN A TRANSITION TO LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE AND REFLECTING BACK, SO SOME OF THE STRUG HE WAS NOT CALIBRATING HER APPROACH TO THE STUDENT BODY. OKAY? ASSUMING THE STUDENTSA THE THAT SCHOOL WERE THE EXACT SAME AS THE STUDENT SHE TAUGHT PREVIOUSLY. SO YOU WANT TO TALK TO PEOPLE ABOUT THE STUDENT PREPARATION, HOW DOES GRADING HAPPEN, STUDENTS ARE STRUGGLING HOW PROACTIVE ARE WE AS A FACULTY, ET CETERA, OKAY? YOU WANT TO COLLECT SYLLABI, FM MATERIALS AND PREVIOUS LECTURES IF AT ALL POSSIBLE, ANYTHING YOU CAN DO TO GAIN INSIGHT INTO WHAT WAS DONE BEFORE IS HELPFUL. I HAVE HEARD PEOPLE HAVE SAID TO ME, I'VE HEARD IT IN MY PREVIOUS POSITION AS WELL, WELL I'LL JUST TAKE THE SLIDES OF SOMEBODY ELSE, YOU KNOW, THE PERSON WHO TAUGHT IT BEFORE WILL GIVE ME WHAT THEY TAUGHT, THAT'S A GOOD JUMPING OFF POINT. BUT OBVIOUSLY YOU'RE GOING TO NEED TO OWN IT AND MAKE IT YOUR OWN, IT WILL NEED TO FEEL COMFORTABLE COMING OUT OF YOUR MOUTH AND THAT MEANS GETTING MATERIAL AND GIVING YOURSELF SOME TIME. SOMETHING PEOPLE SUGGESTED TO ME EARLY ON IS I WAS TEACHING MEDICAL STUDENTS WHICH WAS SOMETHING I HAD NEVER DONE AND I THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT IDEA WAS TO ATTEND CLASSES GIVEN BY SOME WELL RESPECTED TEACHERS. WATCH WHAT THEY DO IN THE CLASS, NOT 10 CLASSES, MAYBE YOU DON'T NEED TO STAY THE WHOLE TIME BUT SIT IN THE BACK OF THE ROOM AND GET A SENSE OF WHAT TECHNOLOGY THEY USE, HOW THEY DELIVER THE MATERIAL, SORT OF WHAT DEPTH, WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO VIEW AS YOU SEE THEM DELIVER. IF TEACHING IS A MAJOR PART OF YOUR ADNESSMENT PROCESS, THEN YOU WILL WANT TO PAY ATTENTION A LOT TO THIS ONE WHICH IS TO FIND WELL RESPECTED TEACHERS TO OBSERVE YOU AND PROVIDE YOU FEEDBACK. IF SHOULD A MINOR SIDE TO PREDOMINANTLY RESEARCH OR CLINICAL POSITION, YOU MIGHT SAY, I'M GOING TO APPLY THE 8020 RULE, DO THE BEST I AND AND WORRY ABOUT THIS LATER BUT IF TEACHING IS REALLY PRIMEAR TOW YOUR ADVANCEMENT AND FOR SOME OF YOU IT WILL BE, GETTING FEEDBACK EARLY ON IS ONE OF THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS YOU CAN DO, YES YOU WILL GET FEEDBACK FROM STUDENTS AT THE END OF A COURSE BUT YOU WOULD RATHER GET FEEDBACK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE COURSE SO CAN YOU MAKE ADJUSTMENTS. FURTHER MORE ONE OF THE THINGS WE LOOK FOR IS THAT THEY ARE LEARNING, THEY ARE ENGAGED AND GET FEEDBACK AND MAKE ADJUSTMENTS, IT'S VIEWED POSITIVELY AMONG THE FACULTY. >> IT IS HARD TO CREATE AFTER THE FACT, YOU CAN'T REMEMBER WHEN DID I TEACH THAT, WHEN DID I DO THAT ABOUT THAT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, SO FIND OUT IF YOU NEED A TEACHING PORTFOLIO IN THIS TENURE PACKAGE AND IF YOU DO, ASK A MENTOR FOR AN EXAMPLE, LOOK AT IT AND START COLLECTING YOUR INFORMATION. SO SOME OF HAVE YOU BEEN TO MY OFFICE SO ORGANIZATION IS NOT MY FORTE, I HAD NOT A SINGLE EVALUATION THEY COULD LAY MY HANDS ON. SO I NEED TO PUT MY TEACHING PORTS FOLIO TOGETHER. I WAIT UNTIL, YOU KNOW LIKE MINUS SIX MONTHS. I GO TO A WORKSHOP ON PUTTING TOGETHER A TEACHING PORTFOLIO, AND THEN I HEAR ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS CAN YOU DO IS SAVE ALL OF YOUR EVALUATIONS, GD, BAD AND OTHERWISE FROM THE BEGINNING BECAUSE YOU CAN SHOW THIS TRAJECTORY AND MY FIRST YEAR THIS HAPPENED AND I LEARNED THIS. SO I CHANGED THAT. IT WAS HARD TO GO BACK IN THE MESS OF THE PAPERS AND PUT IT IN A BOX AND BROUGHT IT TO NIH, SO THERE'S STILL A BOX THERE, SO BEGIN LEARN ABOUT THIS AND IF YOU NEED A TEACHING PORTS FOLIO, GET STARTED. SOME OF IT YOU CAN WRITE AND TEACHING AFTER THE FACT. MOST OF YOU WROTE PHILOSOPHIES OF TEACHING TO GET YOUR JOB, SO CAN YOU MODIFY THEM LATER BUT YOU CAN'T GO BACK AND RECREATE WHAT YOU TAUGHT, WHERE YOU TAUGHT, HOW MANY STUDENTS, WHAT YOUR EXACT WORRY WAS SO GET STARTED. WHICH LOADS ME TO ACE DISCUSSION AND SOME OF YOU ARE AN ION THAT DON'T OFFER TENURE AND HAVE OTHER WAYS REWARDING FACULTY BUT MANY OF YOU HAVE ENTERED TENURED TRACK PHYSICIANS. SO THE FIRST THING THAT NEEDS TO BE SAID IS TENURE AT INSTITUTIONS, THE RULES ARE DIFFERENT. THE WAY PEOPLE GO UP, THE PROCESS OF EVALUATION IS DIFFERENT. YOU DON'T WANT TO RELY ON STORIES FROM FRIENDS. OR A COLLEAGUE AT AN INSTITUTION, YOU WANT TO RELY ON THE ACCURATE INFORMATION POSSIBLE. SO YOU NEED TO SPEAK WITH YOUR CHAIR, ABOUT THE TENURE PROCESS IN WHAT YOU HOPE WILL BE HELPING WITH YOUR EXPECTATIONS AND MORE IMPORTANTLY DO I DECIDE A OR DO I PUT B, DO I PUT ENERGY INTO THIS OR THAT HELPING ME DECIDE WHAT MIGHT BE THE BEST FOR MY TENURE DECISION, SO THERE'S WHAT'S BEST FOR YOUR SCIENCE AND THERE'S WHAT'S BEST FOR YOU AND WHAT'S BEST FOR TENURE AND SOMETIMES THOSE AREN'T ALL IN AGREEMENT AND YOU HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT COMES FIRST. YOU HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT'S BEST YOUR YOUR SCIENCE AND WHAT'S BEST FOR TENURE GO ALONG. SOMETIME WHAT IS' BEST, YOU WISH YOU COULD PUT ENERGY IN WHAT COMING ALONG AND PEOPLE SAY DON'T DO THAT UNTIL YOU HAVE TENURE AND IT'S OFTEN GOOD ADVICE. I WILL COME BACK TO THAT A LOT BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO BEGIN A DIALOGUE. CENTERS FOR EVENING AND RUN WORKSHOPS ON PUTTING TOGETHER AND THIS INVOLVES ASKING YOUR CHAIR OR COLLEAGUE A COUPLE YEARS AHEAD OF YOU WHO ALREADY MADE TENURE, YOU WANT TO READ UNIVERSITY GUIDELINES, YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING SLOWING OR SPEEDING UP THE TENURE CLOCK. OKAY. YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S A STANDARD REQUEST FOR MAKING A CHANGE IN THE TIMING OF THE TENURED DECISION. AND I ALREADY ALLUDED TO THIS A BIT THAT SOMETIMES A DECISION SHOULD BE MADE CONSIDERING WHAT WE CALL TALKING TO TENURE OR KEEPING TENURE IN LINE. SO SHOULD I SERVE ON STUDY SECTION OR SHOULD I DEVELOP A NEW GRADUATE COURSE, OKAY? AND YOUR CHAIR MIGHT SAY, WELL, BOTH ARE REALLY VALUABLE BUT I REALLY ENCOURAGE YOU NOW, BECAUSE YOU NEED TO SHOW SERVICE TO THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY AND THAT YOU'RE RESPECTED IN THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY, I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU YOU FIRST TO SERVE ON STUDY SECTION. OKAY? SO YOU WANT TO MAKE SHOULD DECISIONS KEEPING THAT IN MIND. ON THE OTHER HAND YOU CAN'T BE A TOTAL SLAVE, I WILL MENTION THAT AGAIN IN ANOTHER SLIDE. BUT I DO THINK IT'S GOOD TO CONSIDER YOUR OPTIONS FROM THE LENSES OF TENURE. MUCH OF THIS, YOU KNOW I KEEP TRYING TO SEEK OUT, TALK TO EXPERT TEACHERS, PEOPLE WHO KNOW, PEOPLE WHO ARE A COUPLE YEARS AHEAD OF YOU, GET ADVICE FROM MENTORS SO I WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT IN BROAD GENERAL TERMS ABOUT RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT. AND I WANT TO REMIND YOU OF ALL THE KEY PLAYERS IN POTENTIAL MENTORS AND POTENTIAL ADVOCATES THAT YOU WANT TO MAKE CONTACT WITH. SO CLEARLY YOUR CENTER CHAIR IS IMPORTANT. MANY OF HAVE YOU A JOINT APPOINTMENT SOMEWHERE ELSE OR HIRED PREDOMINANTLY BY ONE APPOINTMENT BY ONE OR FUNDS THAT YOU HOPE BECOMING INVOLVED IN THE RESEARCH AND TEACHING LIFE OF THAT CENTER, YOU WANT TO KNOW ALL OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS. CAN MAY BE THAT ONE OF THEM IS PRIMARY IN YOUR TENURE DECISION AND YOU WANT TO KNOW THAT YOU YOU WANT TO DEVELOP RELATIONSHIPS WITH ALL OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS YOU WANT TO KNOW THE SENIOR LEADSHIP IN THE OFFICE, NOT IMMEDIATELY YOU DON'T NEED TO MEET WITH THE ASSISTANT DEAN IMMEDIATELY IN THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE BUT AT SOME INSTITUTIONS, IT IS COMMON FOR FACULTY TO INTERACT WITH THE DEAN AND YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS OPPORTUNITIES IF THERE'S A BREAKFAST WITH THE DEAN OF SPONSORED RESEARCH AND THERE IS A BREAKFAST WITH THE DEAN OF THE UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE, YOU WANT TO BE THERE, YOU WANT TO MEET PEOPLE, YOU WANT TO PUT IN A NAME TO A FACE SO I CAN'T EVEN COUNT, THERE ARE SO MANY EXAMPLES WHERE SOMEBODY IN A LEADERSHIP POSITION AT UNC, SAID LET'S NOMINATE SHARON FOR THIS AND THIS WOULD BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR SHARON AND MANY OF THEM WERE GREAT OPPORTUNITIES FROM SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS TO MUCH BIGGER OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEADERSHIP ON CAMPUS AND A PART OF THAT WAS THAT I WAS OUT THERE AND PRESENT. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AT EVERYTHING. YOU ALWAYS DO HAVE TO PUT YOUR RESEARCH AND YOU FIRST BUT GETTING OUT AND MEETING THESE INSTITUTIONAL LEADERS IS A VERY POSITIVE THING. I WENT A COUPLE YEARS AGO TO EVALUATE A GRADUATE PROGRAM AT AN INSTITUTION HERE IN THE U.S. AND I MET FIRST WITH INSTITUTIONAL LEADERS. AND WE ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW DO NEW FACULTY LEARN ABOUT GETTING GRADUATE STUDENTS AND WE TALK ABOUT HOW WE MEET WITH ALL OF THEM, WE SEND THEM E-MAILS WE COMMUNICATE, WE DO OUR BEST BECAUSE GRADUATE STUDENTS ARE A GREAT WAY FOR FACULTY TO INTEGRATE INTO OUR RESEARCH SURPRISE AND THEN THEY LEFT AND FACULTY CAME IN AND WE ASKED, SO WHAT ARE SOME OF THE ISSUES? AND ONE OF THE ISSUES WAS WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET NEW STUDENTS. SO WE GET HERE AND WE DON'T KNOW. ALL RIGHT? SO THERE AIAN BIT OF DISCONNECK BETWEEN INFORMATION LEADERSHIP MAY FEEL THEY'RE DELIVERING AND THE INFORMATION YOU'RE GETTING. SOME OF OF THATTA IS BECAUSE YOU'RE GETTING BITS OF INFORMATION SIMULTANEOUSLY. SOME OF THAT IS BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW THE JARGON OR CULTURE OF THAT INSTITUTION YET, BUT DO YOUR BEST TO KNOW THE RIGHT PEOPLE SO THAT WHEN YOU WONDER HOW IS IT THAT I COULD GET A FREE STUDENT. OR A HAVE A GREAT PROJECT FOR UNDERGRADS THIS SUMMER BUT I WON'T HAVE FUNDING YET SO YOU KNOW WHO TO E-MAIL AND SAY WOULD YOU MIND ADVICING ME. OKAY? YOU WANT TO MEET JUNIOR FACULTY WHO REMEMBER WHAT YOU ARE GOING THROUGH? REMEMBERING THAT YOU ARE NOT THEM AND SO WHAT THEY SAY IS NOT DOGMA, RIGHT? IT MAY NOT FIT FOR YOU, YOU STILL WANT TO HEAR EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE A LITTLE BIT AHEAD OF YOU IT IS CRITICAL, THE PEOPLE WHO DIRECT THE UNDERGRADUATE HONORS PROGRAM, IF YOU ARE AT AN UNIVERSITY TO HAS TO PROGRAM. YOU WANT TALENTED STUDENTS, YOU WANT ACCESS TO MONEY FOR TELENTED STUDENTS. THAT'S EVEN BETTER WHEN A TALENTED STUDENT COMES WITH MONEY IT'S A WIN-WIN SITUATION. THAT MEANS BEING PRES FIENT THERE'S A POSTER SESSION FOR THE SUMMER PROGRAM AND YOU'RE THERE, THE NEXT SUMMER YOU HAVE A GOOD CHANCE OF BEINGOT LIST TO SAYA, LET'S TELL SO AND SO AND MAYBE WE SHOULD PLACE A STUDENT THERE. YOU WANT TO IDENTIFY FACULTY IN THE FIELD, REMEMBER THAT, ALLOWS TO YOU GET GOOD ADVICE AND INTERACT AT A GREAT DISTANCE AND THEN YOU WANT TO REMEMBER IF YOU'RE TEACHING TO REACH OUT TO FACULTY AND COURSES YOU WILL TEACH IN OR THAT YOU WANT TO TEACH IN. SO A LOT OF PEOPLE MEET TO TALK WITH TO ESTABLISH RELATIONSHIPS WITH. SOME OF THESE PEOPLE YOU WILL SEE OCCASIONALLY. SOME OF THESE PEOPLE YOU WILL WANT TO SEE REGULARLY, SO YOU WILL NEED TO DECIDE, YOU KNOW, WHAT REGULAR MEANS TO YOU AND TO THEM. BUT YOU WILL WANT TO BE DEVELOPING A RELATIONSHIP WHICH MEANS SEEING THEM MORE THAN ONCE WHEN YOU ARRIVE AND ONCE WHEN YOU ARE PUTTING YOUR TENURE PACKAGE TOGETHER. GO TO SEMINARS AND SOCIAL FUNCTIONS BECAUSE IT'S GREAT TO MEET PEOPLE IN A LESS FORMAL SETTING AS WELL. AND THEN I ALREADY SAID THAT IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE A LITTLE OVERWHELMED BY THE AMOUNT OF DATA COMING EARLY ON, IT MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA TO REVISIT THE GRADUATE PROGRAM DIRECTORS AFTER YOU REALLY HAVE YOUR FEET ON THE GROUND. TALK TO THEM AT THE BEGINNING BUT GO BACK. OKAY? SO JUST KEEP THAT IN MIND. SO A LOT OF PEOPLE TO KEEP IN MIND. ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MATERIAL TO THIS POINT? BECAUSE I'M GOING TO TRANSITION AGAIN? GO AHEAD. >> SO WHAT IS THE TIME SCALE OF THE MANAGEMENT RELATIONSHIP ISSUES, SO I WOULD SAY THE CLOSER THESE PEOPLE ARE TO YOUR SUCCESS, THE MORE IMMEDIATE CONTACT SHOULD HAPPEN. RIGHT? , SO IF YOU ARE TEACH NOTHING A COURSE, YOU WILL START RIGHT AWAY. IT'S A BIG PART OF YOUR SUPERBOWL. YOU DON'T WANT TO WAIT, YOU WANT TO MEET THEM AT THE BEGINNING, THE CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT, SENIOR FACULTY MEMBER, THE HEAD OF A PROGRAM PROJECT GRANT IN AN AREA VERY CLOSELY RELATED, THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO IMPACT YOUR SUCCESS PRETTY EARLY. YOU MEET THEM PRETTIARILY. SOMEBODY MAY BE--YOU DECIDED YOU ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE STUDENTS AT THE BEGINNING THEN YOU COULD WAIT FOUR OR FIVE MONTHS. OKAY I THINK MOST OF US ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY, WE TEND TO DO THESE THINGS EARLIER BECAUSE WE'RE GET EXCITED ABOUT HAVING POST DOC STUDENTS. UNIVERSITY AT THE DEAN'S OFFICE ANDHER ECHELON, IT DEPENDS ON THE UNIVERSITY. IN VERY LARGE UNIVERSITIES THAT MIGHT NOT HAPPEN FOR A VERY LONG TIME. BUT IN SOME SCHOOLS IT'S VERY COMMON THAT IT HAPPENS EARLY ON IS SO THAT'S A LITTLE BIT OF RELYING ON YOUR IMMEDIATE MENTORS TO GUIDE YOU. DOES THAT HELP? OTHER QUESTIONS? >> ALL RIGHT, I WANT FOCUSED ON TALK ABOUT THERE'S NOT ENOUGH TIME IN THE DAY TO DO EVERYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO BE SUCCESSFUL SO SOME OF YOU HAVE GAT TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS ALREADY AND SOME OF HAVE YOU STRUGGLE WIDE TIME MANAGEMENT FOR A WHILE AND YOU PROBABLY AT LEAST HAVE SOME INC.LEEING OF TIME MANAGEMENT ISSUES IF YOU DO HAVE RESOURCES NOW. IN--IN ALL LIKELIHOOD, YOU'VE GOTTEN THIS FAR, YOU HAVE ALREADY FIGURED THIS OUT, BUT WILL SUDDENLY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MANY MORE PEOPLE'S TIME. OKAY, SO IF IT'S A STICKING POINT, IT'S WORTH THINKING ABOUT HOW DO I PRIORITIZE, YOU NEED TO BE PRAGMATIC AND WEDNESDAYLY AND LEARN HOW TO SAY NO, YOU ARE THE COOL NEW FACULTY MEMBER AND YOU MIGHT--YOU MAY BE BRINGING A NEW SKILL. YOU MAY BE BRINGING A TECHNOLOGY, A FIELD THAT PEOPLE REALLY WANT ACCESS TO. RIGHT? BUT YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO PRIORITIZE WHEN YOU CAN SAY NO, WHEN YOU REALLY CAN'T SAY NO. AND I ENCOURAGE YOU PEOPLE TO ASK THESE QUESTIONS, CAN THIS WAIT, YOU KNOW A YEAR CAN I WAIT TWO YEARS, CAN IT WAIT TILL I HAVE TENURE, TILL NEXT SEMESTER, ET CETERA, A LOT OF THIS IS OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES WE HAVE STUDENTS COMING TO VISITING AND IT WE'RE LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY TO GIVE A TALK. SAYING YES TO ONE OF THOSE AND SAYING YES TO SIX OR EIGHT OF THEM MAY BE NOT LEARNING HOW TO SAY NO. THE FLIP SIDE OF THAT IS YOU HAVE PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU ENJOY DOING THAT, YOU ENJOY THAT KIND OF OUTREACH AND THOSE MORE SOCIAL ELEMENTS OF SCIENCE. SO YOU NEED TO KNOW AND BALANCE. ALSO, YOU NEED TO REALLY UNDERSTAND THE ONLY FACTOR. SO IN MANY DEPARTMENTS, THERE ARE VERY FEW WOMEN, VERY FEW PLE OF COLOR, THERE MAY BE ONLY A SINGLE BIOINFORMATICS EXPERT, WHATEVER, THE ONLY IS. IF YOU ARE THE ONLY IN AN AREA, YOU ARE ASKED TO BE ON A LOT OF COMMITTEES. YOU ARE ASKED TO DO MORE THINGS BECAUSE WE WANT REPRESENTATION, BROAD REPRESENTATION ON COMMITTEES. SO YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT THAT. ON THE ONE HAND IT CAN BRING OPPORTUNITY. ON THE OTHER HAND IT CAN BE A TIME SINK AND YOU HAVE TO BALANCE WHAT IS AN OPPORTUNITY AND WHAT IS TIME BETTER SPENT SOMEWHERE ELSE AND THAT'S WHERE I THINK MENTORS GO A LONG WAY. I'LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE, ONE WHICH PEOPLE TAKE AS A GREAT HONOR AND ALWAYS WANT TO DO AND THAT'S STUDY SECTION AND I THINK IT IS A GREAT HONOR AND I THINK THE SYSTEM ONLY WORK WHEN IS WE SAY YES, RIGHT? IT'S A SYSTEM OF PEER REVIEW, IF YOU SAY YES TO MANY, MANY STUDY SECTIONS AND YOUR RESEARCH DOESN'T GO ANYWHERE, YOUR GRANTS WON'T FARE VERY WELL AT SECTION SECTION AND IF THEY DON'T FAREWELL IN STUDY SECTION, YOU MAY NOT FAIR WELL IN THE DEPARTMENT. SAYING YES ONCE MAY BE GREAT, SAYING YES, TWICE YOU COULD RATIONALIZE BUT SAYING YES TO A LOT OF REVIEW SERVICE BEFORE YOUR HOUSE IS IN ORDER IS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER. THAT'S A GREAT EXAMPLE OF WHERE YOU HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF, YES THIS IS VALUABLE BUT HOW VALUABLE RIGHT NOW AND THAT'S AN EXAMPLE WHERE MENTOR GUESS A LONG WAY. SO MY CHAIR EARLY ON SAID YOU CAN SAY MY CHAIR SAID NO AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS SILLY. WELL I'M A FACULTY MEMBER, I DON'T NEED ANYBODY ELSE--RIGHT? BUT IT WAS SO USEFUL. OT OTHER HAND HE WOULD PUSH ME TO DO SOMETHING I WAS HESITANT TO DO BECAUSE HE HAD THE INSTINCT TO DO WHAT WAS RIGHT. I WAS FREE TO LISTEN OR NOT LISTEN, I FELT LIKE IT WAS MY BOSS TELLING ME WHAT I WILL DO AND I GLADLY DID IT BUT KNOWING HOW TO GET HELP MAKES THOSE DECISIONS GOES A LONG WAY. AND IN MY EXPERIENCE THIS, IS NOT JUST FOR THE ONLY, YOU KNOW SO SOME PEOPLE SAY OH THAT'S NOT--THAT'S NOT MY PROBLEM. I THINK IT'S AN ISSUE FOR ALL EARLY STAGE INVESTIGATORS. BECAUSE YOU REALLY NEED TO BE PRESENT A LOT IN THEIR RESEARCH GROUP. YOU DON'T WANT PEOPLE MAKING MISTAKES WHILE YOU'RE AWAY, SEEING DATA WAY LATER NOT DEALING WITH THE ETHICAL DEVELOPMENT OF YOUR STUDENTS, DEALING WITH PROBLEMS LATER BECAUSE OF IT. SO MANY THINGS RELY ON YOU BEING PRESENT WITH YOUR RESEARCH TEAM. PRESENT IN THE CLASSROOM, PRESENT WITH YOUR STUDENTS. AND SO I THINK THAT IT'S WORTH REALLY THINKING ABOUT. SO I WILL TALK A BIT ABOUT STAFFING RIGHT NOW. AND I'M NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT STAFFING BECAUSE IT IS SOMETHING THAT WILL BE TALKED ABOUT A LOT IN THE MANAGEMENT BOOT CAMP AND IT ALSO REALLY NEEDS A LOT MORE INFORMATION THAN WE HAVE TODAY. SO A COUPLE THINGS, YOU HAVE TO CONSIDER WHAT YOU CAN AFFORD, YOU HAVE TO CONSIDER THE STABILITY OF YOUR FUNDING. ONE OF THE BIGGEST STRESSES PEOPLE TALK ABOUT IS, PEOPLE'S SALARIES DEPEND ON ME SO THERE MAY BE THIS GENERAL ENERGY, YOU CAN FILL YOUR GROUP REALLY QUICKLY AND YOU MAY DECIDE TO GO IN THAT DIRECTION, BUT YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE NOT ADDADDING THIS HUGE STRESS OF HOW I WILL PAY THEM NEXT YEAR. SO IT TAKES REAL THINKING FROM A YEAR FROM NOW, TWO YEARS FROM NOW, THREE YEARS FROM NOW. THE FLIP SIDE OF THAT IS SOME PEOPLE GET SO PARALYZED BY THAT WORD THEY HIRE NO ONE AND YOU COOPERATE GET ENOUGH WORK DONE ALONE. REGARDLESS OF THE POSITION, YOU NEED TALENTED STUDENTS, FELLOWS, EMPLOYEES IN YOUR LIFE. YOU WANT TO BEING ABOUT THE PROGRESS OF RESEARCH, YOU WANT TO DO THINGS YOU'RE AN EXPERT IN SO YOU CAN TEACH THEM BUT EVENTUALLY YOU'RE GOING TO NEED TO BRING IN OTHER AREAS AND EXPERE AND WHAT IS IT EXACTLY THAT YOU NEED. YOU NEED TO CONSIDER HOW MUCH TIME YOU TRAIN AND MENTOR EMPLOYEES. THAT IS A TIME CONSUMING ACTIVITY BUT IF YOU DO IT WELL, IT PAYS OFF MANY, MANY FOLD BECAUSE HAVE YOU SOMEBODY DOING GREAT WORK ON YOUR BEHALF AND WITH YOU. YOU WANT TO CONSIDER THE QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF GRADUATE STUDENTS, HOW EASY IS IT TO GET GRADUATE STUDENTS OR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS. AND ESPECIALLY IF THERE'S A STRONG UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROGRAM, THEN THERE'S ANOTHER SET OF OPTIONS, SO CAN YOU HIRE STAFF, YOU CAN HIRE STUDENTS, CAN YOU TAKE HONORS STUDENTS, YOUR UNIVERSITY LIKELY WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE FEDERAL WORK STUDY PROGRAM AND SO CAN YOU GET STUDENT WHO IS ARE PART OF THE WORK STUDY PROGRAM, CAN YOU TAKE ROTATING GRADUATE STUDENTS. YOU CAN HIRE A POTE DOC, TECHNICIANS, ET CETERA, HAVE YOU A LOT FLEXIBILITY AND YOU HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT IT IS AND HO IT IS THAT YOU WISH TO HIRE. AWIVE SOMEBODY SAYS DO YOU THINK IT'S BETTER TO DO WITH POST DOCKS, OR GRADUATE STUDENTS, I SAY I DON'T KNOW IT DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU ARE AND YOUR SITUATION AND HOW EASY TELL BE ATTRACT REALLY GOOD PEOPLE AT ANY LEVEL. SO I DON'T HAVE A CLEAN ANSWER, BUT THE ANSWER I HAVE IS IT'S WORTH CAREFULLY CONSIDERING. LOOK AT EXAMPLES WHERE PEOPLE DID REALLY WELL. LOOK AT EXAMPLES WHERE PEOPLE FALTERED A LITTLE BIT. THINK ABOUT YOU NOW. DO YOU DO WELL JUGGLING THREE NEW LEARNERS OR WOULD YOU BE BETTER STARTING WITH ONE. YOU KNOW JUST THINK ABOUT YOU AS A MANAGER, THINK ABOUT THE WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. THINK ABOUT THE MONEY YOU HAVE, THE TYPES OF PEOPLE YOU CAN RECRUIT. AS YOU MOVE ALONG AND I'M NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT A LOT ON THE WAY, THERE'S A LOT ABOUT CHECKING WHAT YOU NEED AND CHECKING A REFERENCE. BUT I WANTED TO PUT THIS IN FOR A PLUG THAT MANY, MANY PEOPLE IT TURNS OUT DON'T CHECK REFERENCES AND MANY PEOPLE WHO DO CHECK REFERENCES DO IT IN A PRETTY GRATUEITOUS WAY, SO A-THEY ASK FOR A LETTER SO YOU SHOULD APPRECIATE THAT MOST OF US KNOW HOW TO WRITE A LET THEY'RE SAYS ENOUGH TO HELP SOMEBODY MOVE ON; OKAY, SO THAT IF YOU SIMPLY HIRE BASED ON WRITTEN LETTERS, YOU WILL BE GETTING A CLEANED UP WISE LETTER, OKAY, NOBODY WILL WRITE IN A LETTER. I'VE BEEN TRYING TO ENCOURAGE THIS PERSON TO MOVE ON FOR A YEAR, IT'S BEEN VERY DIFFICULT. OKAY, NO ONE THEY MAY NOT SAY THAT ON THE PHONE UNLESS YOU ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS. SO FIRST I REALLY WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO CHECK REFERENCES BY PHONE. PICK UP THE PHONE AND SAY WHEN I CAN CALL. CAN YOU ALMOST TELEFROM THE WARMTH OF THE RECEPTION YOU GET ON PHONE--YOU'RE CALLING ABOUT KACCT KREB, IT'S A GREAT STUDENT, I WOULD LOVE TO TALK WITH YOU, SO YOU CAN TELL SOMETIMES NOT WITH EVERYONE, SOME PEOPLE ARBITRATE VERY DEMONSTRATIVE, THEY'RE VERY CONSTRAINED ON THE PHONE BUT MANY TIMES CAN YOU TELL AND YOU SHOULD FIRST DESCRIBE THE JOB AND WORK ENVIRONMENT, YOU SHOULD TALK ABOUT YOU BEING A NEW INVESTIGATOR, JUST GETTING STARTED. I NEED PEOPLE WITH THESE CHARACTERISTICS, IT'S THESE SKILLS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE DOING, ALTHOUGH I WILL TEACH THEM, SOME OF THESE I'M LOOKING FOR BASIC, STRONG UNDERSTANDING OF X, Y, AND Z. SO DESCRIBE WHAT YOU WANT SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE SOMEBODY'S NOT A GOOD FIT IN MY GROUP OR OFFICE WHO HAS UNIQUE SKILL AND WHEN SOMEBODY MENTIONED THOSE SKILLS IT CHAIRMANS WHAT I SAY, RIGHT? SO YOU WANT TO BE VERY SPECIFIC, THEY MAY HAVE WORK WIDE ANAAMAZING GRADUATE STUDENT WHO MANAGED EVERYTHING, SO THE BOGS SAYS THAT WAS ONE OF THE BEST UNDERGRADUATES I HAVE WITHOUT PAUSING TO REALIZE THAT THAT HER SUCCESS WAS BECAUSE OF HER MENTOR'S ATTENTION. SO YOU WANT TO ASK AND YOU WANT TO ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WAY IT'S OPERATED, YOU WANT TO ASK QUESTIONS WRITTEN TOWARDS THE JOB DESCRIPTION AND WORK ENVIRONMENT. SO WHAT AM I LOOKING FOR AND WHAT AM I GOING TO ASK, I SUGGEST YOU ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION IF YOU ASK INFORMATION ON TWO OR THREE PEOPLE, OKAY? SO WHAT HAPPEN SYSTEM WE ASK A FIRST QUESTION, THAT SIDE TRACKS US, WE GET OFF ON A TANGENT, THAT SIDE TRACKS US EVEN MORE, WE HANG UP WE HAVE A WARM FUZZY FEELING, TURNS OUT WE LEARNED NOTHING. AND YOU WILL MAKE WRONG HIRING CHOICES. IN WILL BE THE WRONG FIT OR SOMEBODY WON'T BE WHAT THEY WERE, WHAT YOU THOUGHT THEY WERE AND SO PART OF IT IS WE HAVE TO LET GO AND GRACIOUSLY MOVE ON AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO GRACIOUSLY MOVE ON, I--EARLY ON, AM STILL ACTUALLY IN THE O. I.T. E. NOW, USED TEMPORARY MECHANISMS IN THE BEGINNING BECAUSE I CAN SAVE FACE IF I IT DIDN'T WORK OUT. WHERE IF I HIRE SOMEONE USING GOVERNMENT--OR AT CHAPEL HILL THERE WAS USING A TEMP POSITION OR PERMANENT, ONCE YOU USE THOSE PERMANENT POSITIONS IT'S HARD TORE HELP PEOPLE AND SO, YOU WILL MAKE SOME BAD CHOICES IN HIRING. IF YOU ASK SHORT OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS THAT TALK TO THE JOB DESCRIPTION, YOU HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF SUCCESS. AND THEY ASK ABOUT HIRING AT A LATER DATE, IF THEY SAY YES, I WANT TO KNOW HEAR IF THEY SAY NO, I WANT TO HEAR WHY. I HAD A VERY BIG FOCUS IN EYE LAB IN A TEAM ORIENTED APPROACH--SORT OF AN OPEN CURIOSITY, WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT, OKAY? WHY, WHY WAS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU THOUGHT WAS SO IMPORTANT. ALL RIGHT? AND THEN WHEN YOU BRING SOMEBODY IN TO INTERV LIKEWISE, YOU WANT TO GO BROAD AND DEEP. OKAY? SAME THING, SO WHAT UPONS WHEN WE BRING PEOPLE IN TO INTERVIEW, WE TALK ABOUT SCIENCE, OUR SCIENCE, WE TALK AT THEM FOR A LONG, LONG TIME, WE TELL THEM EVERY PROJECT THAT WE'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT, ALL REALLY KEY IMPORTANT NICE THINGS TO DO, BUT THEY TELL YOU NOTHING ABOUT HOW THEY'RE GOING TO OPERATE WITHIN YOUR GROUP. SO YOU WANT TO HAVE--SOME OF THESE WON'T--YOU'LL CROSS OFF, THEY WON'T MATTER TO YOU, MAYBE, I GENERALLY DIVIDED THINGS INTO SIX THINGS THAT I WAS LOOKING FOR AND I ASKED A QUESTION OR TWO THAT GAVE ME INSIGHT INTO ALL OF THEM. OKAY? AND AGAIN, WRITING OUT QUESTIONS AND KNOWING WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO ASK, GOES A LONG WAY AND I GIVE YOU RESOURCES AT THE END THAT HAVE GOOD QUESTIONS, THAT YOU CAN LOOK AT AND THINK ABOUT. I HAVE LEARNED THAT ONE OTHER THING FOR ME DURING THE ADDRESS AT MY INTERVIEW IS WHAT MY STYLE IS. BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES WHEN IT DIDN'T WORK OUT, IT WAS BECAUSE OUR STUDENTS WERE INCOMPATIBLE, YOU KNOW SMART, TALENTED, BUT HAD DIFFICULTY DEALING WITH MY SORT OF IN YOUR FACE, I HAVE A THOUSAND IDEAS, LET'S TALK. NOW, YOU KNOW SORT OF MORE SPONTANEOUS WAY OF MANAGING, OKAY? AND SO I WOULD TELL PEOPLE, THIS IS WHO I AM AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU HEAR ABOUT IT FROM OTHER PEOPLE, BUT I WANT YOU TO HEAR ABOUT IT FROM ME AS WELL. SO, IT'S NOT ONLY ABOUT YOU COLLECTING INFORMATION ABOUT THEM, IT'S ABOUT YOU CONVEYING TO THEM WHO YOU ARE SO THEY ARE NOT SURPRISED LATER, RIGHT? SO YOU WANTED TO WORK OUT. I WENT BACKWARDS NOT FORWARDS. ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT HIRING? OKAY SO WE WILL WRAP UP AND TALK JUST A LITTLE BIT--THAT'S ACTUALLY JUST A REPEAT OF EVERYTHING THAT I JUST SAID. WE ARE GOING TO TALK JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT BEING THE LEADER IN A LAB, OKAY? AND NOT VERY MUCH BECAUSE IT'S REALLY A TOPIC THAT REQUIRES DAYS AND DAYS OF DISCUSSION. AND I FEEL LIKE IT'S A LIFE LONG LEARNING FOR A WHILE AND IT'S IN OTHER WAYS I'M OFTEN A LADSY BOSS AND I'M ALWAYS TRYING TO THINK ABOUT WAYS THAT I COULD DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY. SOMETIMES I GO HOME SHOCKED AT WHAT I SAID IN THE MOMENT IN THE DAY. SO I'M NO EXPERT AND I DO THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT NEEDS MUCH BIGGER DISCUSSION THAN STUFF THE END OF THIS WORKSHOP. AND THE FIRST THAL COMMENT FROM TOM CECH, WHO IS THE PREVIOUS PRESIDENT OF HHMI. SO YOU'VE BEEN HIRED FOR YOUR SCIENTIFIC SKILLS AND RESEARCH POTENTIAL BUT YOUR EVENTUAL SUCCESS WILL BE DEPEND ON HEAVILY ON YOUR ABILITY TO GUIDE, LEAD AND EMPOWER OTHERS TO DO THEIR BEST WORK AND I WOULD ADD ON THEIR BEHALF AND YOUR BEHALF. YOU NEED THEM TO BE COMMITTED TO YOU. YOU NEED THEM TO BE VESTED IN YOUR SUCCESS WHICH MEANS YOU ALSO HAVE TO BE VESTED IN THEIR SUCCESS. AND I THINK THAT WE DON'T TEACH ENOUGH MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS. WE DON'T REALLY TALK ABOUT THIS ENOUGH SO I AT LEAST WANT TO GIVE YOU AN INTRODUCTION AND THINGS TO THINK ABOUT. THEMES THAT WORK IN HIGH KNOWLEDGE RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT WHETHER THEY BE TEAMS OF UNDERGRADUATE--YOU COULD COME UP WITH AN EXAMPLE WHERE IT'S A HORRIBLE ENVIRONMENT AND PEOPLE YOU KNOW SUCK IT UP AND MAKE IT WORK ANYWAY, BUT GENERALLY PEOPLE DO THEIR BEST WORK WHEN THEY FEEL PRIDE AND CONNECTION TO THE TEAM LEADER AND THE SCENE. SO LEADERS WHO SUCCEED CREATE THAT ENVIRONMENT. THEY ALSO INSURE THAT RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE AND THEY REMOVE BARRIERS THAT HINDER TEAM EFFECTIVENESS. SO THEY'RE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR PROBLEMS, THEY'RE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR WHAT DOES THAT GROUP NEED TO DO BETTER AND MOST IMPORTANTLY AND PROBABLY THE THING THAT WE TEND TO FORGET IS THAT REALLY SUCCESSFUL LEADERS ADAPT AND DEVELOP DURING TRANSITIONS, NEW PEOPLE COME NOTHING, PROJECTS COMING IN, GOING, LEADERSHIP CHANGES AT THE INSTITUTION, SCIENCE CHANGES, BUDGETS CHANGE, GRANTIZATIONS CHANGE, WE'RE IN A TIME OF BIG FLUX. OUR RESEARCH CHANGE IS SO MUCH FASTER THAN WHAT IT USED TO, WHAT I DID IN 1994, YOU'RE ALL PROPOSING TO DO NOW IS LAUGHABLE, BUT I DID, I WAS SO SLOW AND SO MUCH LESS BIG AND MULTIBUSINESS PROGRAPLINGARY THAN THE KINDS OF WORK YOU'RE ALL DOING NOW. SO YOU'RE ADAPTING CONSTANTLY. SO THAT DEALS WITH THE CHANGE AND THEY HELP THEIR EMPLOYEES HELP DO THE SAME. I SIT IN DISCUSSIONS LIKE THIS WHERE PEOPLE LIKE OR DON'T LIKE CHANGE AND I AGREE THERE IS SOMETHING IN OUR DNA, SOME OF US LOVE UNCERTAINTY AND SOME OF US REALLY CAN'T TOLERATE UNCERTAINTY. SO I AGREE, THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF IT THAT'S JUST OUR SORT OF PERSONALITY AND WE CAN HELP BY BEING TRANSPARENT BY HIDING WHAT THEY DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT. BY HOLDING WORRY IN PRIVATE. WE DO HAVE SOME CONTROL OVER HOW PEOPLE DEAL WITH CHANGE. I HAVE TO SEE I SEE THAT TIME AND TIME AGAIN BECAUSE I WORK WITH A LOT OF FELLOWS IN GROUP WHERE IS THE PI IS LEAVING AND SOME ARE TRANSPARENT AND UPFRONT AND DEAL WITH EACH PERSON EACH RESEARCH GROUP AND SOME GOES LAND SOME ARE SECRETIVE AND QUIET AND ALL KINDS OF CONFUSION AND A LOT OF TIMES THAT CONFUSION MEANS THAT WORK STOPS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. AND PEOPLE WHO YOU WISH MIGHT GO WITH YOU MIGHT SAY, NO THANK YOU SO I HAVE TO SAY I'VE SEEN PEOPLE MANAGE TRANSITIONS EFFECTIVELY AND NONEFFECTIVELY. SO YOU WILL DEVELOP RESOURCES IN LEADERSHIP SKILLS OVER TIME BUT I WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT THERE'S PROBABLY FOUR KEY ELEMENTS HERE ONE IS UNDERSTANDING YOURSELF, HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH STRESS, TRANSITIONS YOUR COMMUNICATION STYLE, DIRECTIVE AND IN YOUR FACE, DO YOU TEND TO HOLD BACK AND SAY WHAT YOU NEED TO SAY, WHAT DOES YOUR BODY LANGUAGE CONVEY WHEN YOU GIVE FEEDBACK, ALL KINDS OF THINGS ABOUT YOURSELF, WHAT'S ICT STYLE? HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH SET BACKS, ET CETERA. YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND YOUR EMPLOYEES AND TRAINEES. THEY ARE NOT LIKE YOU AND YOU CAN'T MANAGE EVERYONE THE SAME WAY. SOME PEOPLE ARE MOTIVATED EFFECTIVELY WITH A HARD KICK, SOME PEOPLE ARE NOT MOTIVATED VERY WELL THAT WAY. FEAR IS GENERALLY NOT THE BEST MOTIVATION STRATEGY SMU SOME OF US ARE NOTE WRAITIVATED BY IT REGULARLY. YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND YOUR EMPLOYEES IN TRAINING. YOU NEED TO DEVELOP OUTSTANDING COMMUNICATION SKILLS. WE TALK ABOUT COMMUNICATIONS SKILLS DURING TRAINING AND STANDING HERE AT THE PODIUM GIVING A TALK. STANDING AT A POSTER, WRITING A GRANT BUT NOW IT'S ONE-ON-ONE COMMUNICATION ONE ON FIVE COMMUNICATION WITHIN YOUR TEAM. HOW DO YOU DIRECT PEOPLE. HOW DO YOU KEEP THE MORAL UP, HOW DO YOU GIVE ENOUGH HONEST FEEDBACK, POSITIVE PEDE BACK, DO YOU AVOID NEGFIVE FEEDBACK, ALL KINDS OF THINGS ABOUT THIS COMMUNICATION STUFF AND FINALLY LEADERSHIP SKILLS BY DEVELOPING AND USING YOUR EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, OUR EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE S&P OUR CAPACITY TO UNDERSTAND OUR OWN EMOTIONS AND UNDERSTAND THE EMOTIOS OF OTHERS AND USE THOSE TO IMPACT POSITIVE MOVERMENT IN A GROUP. SO HOW DO WE CONTROL OURSELVES, HOW DO WE READ THE EMOTIONS OF OTHERS AND OUR OWN EMOTIONS AND THERE'S GREAT LITERATURE FROM DAN MOLD MAN, LOTS OF RESOURCES, TWO ROW SOURCES HERE ON CAMPUS, SOME OF YOU ALREADY I KNOW PARTICIPATED IN THE WORKPLACE DYNAMIC SERIES THAT WE OFFER WHICH IS A FOUR PART SERIES, YOU HAVE TO TAKE ALL FOUR PARTS TO APPLY FOR THE TWO DAY MANAGEMENT BOOT CAMP AND IF YOU ARE CLOSE TO FIN INNERRING YOUR REQUIREMENT AND YOU'RE LEAVING SOON, REACH OUT TO LORI AND SHE CAN GIVE YOU IDEAS ON ON HOW TO GET YOUR REQUIREMENT OUT OF THE WAY SO CAN YOU TAKE THE BOOT CAMP, IT'S OFFERED IN JANUARY AND JUNE. ANYBODY HERE TAKEN IT? A COUPLE PEOPLE. GENERALLY THE FEEDBACK IS, IT'S THE FIRST TIME HI22 DAYS TO THINK ABOUT THIS TIME. --I HAD TWO DAYS TO THINK ABOUT THIS STUFF. AND THE LEARNING PART IS THE BEST PART OF THE WHOLE THING. SO, IF YOU DON'T HAVE TIME OR INCLINATION, JUST FIND SOMETHING SOMEWHERE. FIND MANY SOME THINGS, SOMEWHERE, TOO MANY REALLY TALENTED SCIENTISTS GET BOGGED DOWN FROM MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS, AND IT'S A REAL LOSS, A REAL LOSS TO THE STUDENTS THAT BECOME AVADE OF YOU AND DEMOTIVATE INDEED YOUR GROUP AND IT'S A LOSS TO YOU BECAUSE HAVE YOU GREAT IDEAS AND A LOT OF TALENT AND WANT TO DO SOMETHING IMPORTANT. SO EVEN THOUGH WE CALL THEM SOFT SKILLS THEY'RE CRITICAL AND TAKE SOME TIME. I THINK A FUN THING TO DO IS WORK WITH THESE FOUR QUESTIONS, AGAIN WE WON'T GO OVER THEM, IT'S LIKE THE FIRST SLIDE. I WANT TO LEAVE WU, REALLY CAN YOU ARTICULATE TO THE PEOPLE YOU HIRE WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH. YOUR WHAT SHARED VISION IS AS YOU WORK TOGETHER. WHAT IS THE STRATEGY IN YOUR PLACE TO SUPPORT EACH, TO BUILD HIGH MORAL, TO BUILD THIS ESPIRIT DECOR THAT WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER. I MEAN HISTUDENTS SAY, I WILL GO OUT AND RECRUIT THE NEXT GROUP OF STUDENTS, RIGHT? OR, YOU KNOW I HAD STUDENTS SAY I COULD DO WHATEVER NEEDS TO BE DONE FOR THIS GRANT HELP THANKSGIVING STUDENT. PEOPLE DO THAT BECAUSE THEY FEEL CONNECTED AND THEY KNOW THAT YOUR SUCCESSES ARE THEIR SUCCESSES AND THEY ARE BENEFITING AS WELL. SO HOW ARE YOU GOING TO BUILD A COMMUNITY LIKE THAT. AND FINALLY, WE ALL LIKE TO FOCUS ON THE FUN PARTS BUT CONFLICT IS INEVITABLE. YOU WILL DISAPPOINT THEM. THEY WILL DISAPPOINT YOU THEY WILL DISAGREE WITH EACH OTHER, THEY WILL BE STANDING, YOU KNOW IN YOUR RESEARCH SPACE WATCHING TWO STUDENTS JUST SORT OF HAVING A TERRIBLE INTERACTION AND IT IS ON YOU TO HELP THEM THROUGH IT. SO I THINK THESE FOUR QUESTIONS ARE REALLY GOOD IMPORTANT QUESTIONS TO WORK ON. I WILL NOTE THAT EVERY OTHER YEAR OR SO,--RIFE ONLY BEEN HERE SIX OR SEVEN YEARS, AND I GO TO ONE OF THE PIs IN THE DENTAL INSTITTE HAS A RETRYOUT, AND IT'S REALLY IMPRESS TESTIFY WATCH THEM ALL SIT TOGETHER AND SORT OF THINK BACK A COUPLE OF YEARS AND HEAD A COUPLE OF YEARS, SORT OF WHERE ARE WE, WHAT'S OUR BEST PICTURE OF OURSELVES? AND WHERE DOES THE TRUE REALITY NOT HOLD UP. WHERE DOES IT SO WE CAN ACKNOWLEDGE IT AND DO SOME MORE OF IT AND WHERE DO WE WISH TO MAKE CHANGES? AND WE THINK IT'S A REALLY GREAT TYPE OF EXERCISE TO DO WITH YOUR GROUP AND LAB MEETING AND RETREAT, BUT YOU NEED TO START IT YOURSELF. YU NEED TO TART IT WITHOUT ANYBODY BECAUSE YOU WANT TO ARTICULATE THIS TO YOUR HIGHER, THESE ARE THE TYPES OF GROUPS I WANT. THESE ARE THE UNDERGRADUATES I WANT IN MY LAB. THIS IS HOW I WILL WORK TOGETHER TO TACKLE THIS PROBLEM. OKAY? SINCE THIS IS HOW WE'RE GOING TO SUPPORT EACH OTHER, THIS IS HOW WE WILL BE RESPONSIBLE TO EACH OTHER. SO ALL OF THAT WORK AND ENERGY, CONFLICT WILL HAPPEN, AND SO WILL THEY, THERE'S REASONS WE RUN INTO PROBLEMS. ONE IS EXPECTATION MISMATCH AND THAT'S REALLY HARD FOR NEW INVESTIGATORS, ESPECIALLY SO THINK ABOUT IT. YOU START WITH A LARGE COHORT AND IT GOT SMALLER AT EVERY STEP RIGHT AND HAVE YOU NOW AN ACADEMIC JOB. YOU ARE ONE OF A SMALL NUMBER OF THE CREDENTIALS, THE DRIVES, ET CETERA AND YOU ARE GOING TO HIRE PEOPLE SOME OF WHOM DON'T SEND THE SAME INTENSITY OR DRIVE THAT YOU HAVE OR MIGHT HAVE A LOT OF INTENSITY AND DRIVE BUT LACKS SELF-CONFIDENCE THAT FOLLOW THROUGH OR WHO ARE LIKING IN SOME SKILLS NEEDS, DON'T KNOW HOW TO ASK, YOU'RE A LITTLE INTIMIDATING AND ALL THOSE. SO YOUR EXPECTATION VS TO BE IN LINE WITH IT, THERE'S A RANGE OF CONCEPT, SKILLS, COMMITMENT, THAT SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT WORKING HARD IS WORKING 40 HOURS AND SOME PEOPLE THINK WORKING HARD IS WORKING 80 HOURS AND YOU HAVE YOUR OWN DEFINITION OF THAT ANYWAY. SO EXPECTATION MISMATCH IS AT THE HEART OF A LOT OF DISAGREEMENTS. MANY YOUNG INVESTIGATORS HERE AT NIH TELL ME, WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO WORK AS HARD AS I DO? WELL, THERE ARE SOME, BUT NOT EVERYBODY AND WE HAVE TO MOTIVATE PEOPLE. WE HAVE TO PULL THEM ALONG. WE HAVE TO GIVE THEM THE TIME TO DEVELOP WE ALSO HAVE TO CLEARLY DEFINE OUR EXPECTATIONS FOR THEM, RIGHT? THERE ARE DIFFERENCES IN PERSONALITIES WORK, COMMUNICATION, STYLES, GREAT NUMBER OF MISUNDERSTANDING, SO THE MORE YOU UNDERSTAND THE LITERATURE ABOUT PERSONALITY AND WORK STYLES, THE MORE YOU CAN STRUCTURE THINGS TO WORK WITH PEOPLE WHO'S STYLES ARE DIFFERENT THAN YOURS, THE BETTER OFF YOU WILL. PRIOR LESSONS FOR ME AND EARLY ON AND SOMEBODY WHO IS VERY EXTROVERT WIDE A VERY DIRECT COMMUNICATION STYLE, POINTING IN MY FAMILY WAS NORMAL, I DIDN'T REALIZE HOW INTIMIDATING IT WAS TO MANY, MANY PEOPLE I HAD TO REALLY ADJUST MY STYLE. SOME OF MY BEST STUDENTS WERE MUCH MORE RESERVED, INSTRAY JECTORY VERTED STUDENTS, AND I WOULD JUST TALK OVER THEM. OKAY? AND I WOULD NEVER HEAR ALL OF THEIR GREAT IDEAS, AND THEY WOULD NEVER DO THEIR BEST WORK BECAUSE THEY NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO PUT THEIR BEST WORK OUT ON THE TABLE. SO THE MORE YOU UNDERSTAND YOUR STYLE, THE MORE YOU KNOW THE STRENGTHS AND MORE YOU KNOW WHAT TO SMOOTH OUT AND WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW WHEN YOU STEP BACK AND WE HAVE A LOT OF DISCOMFORT RELATING TO PERSONAL DIFFERENCES. IF I SAY PLEASE STAY NOW TO FINISH THIS, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, WE ALL THINGS THAT WE'RE COMFORTABLE WITH, OR LESS COMFORTABLE WITH, THAT COME INTO THE WORKPLACE, PEOPLE BRING THEIR WHOLE SELF-TO WORK. NOBODY WANTS TO COME TO WORK. AS A PIPETTE OR COMPUTER KEY, WITH HANDS ON THE END, THEY WANT TO COME WITH THEIR WHOLE SELF-WHICH MEANS WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO SHARE A BIT ABOUT OUR WHOLE SELF, WE HAVE TO LEARN ABOUT THEIR BACKGROUND, THEIR EXPERIENCES, WHY THEY MIGHT VIEW A SITUATION DIFFERENTLY THAN WE DO AND FINALLY THIS ONE WHICH COMES AS A GREAT SURPRISE TO LOTS OF NEW INVESTIGATORS, SO THERE'S COMPETITION FOR RESOURCES AND ONE OF THE MOST VALUABLE RESOURCES IS TIME AND ATTENTION. SO ALL KINDS OF THINGS THAT CAUSE PROBLEMS, BEING PROACTIVE AND KNOWING UP FRONT WHAT PROBLEMS TEND TO HAPPEN KNOWING UP FRONT HOW YOU TEND TO WORK WITH PEOPLE GOES A LONG WAY. TAKING PLACES WHERE YOU HEAR PEOPLE SAY, I COULD NEVER WORK LIKE THAT. GO A LONG WAY AND THE MANAGEMENT OF BOOT CAMP I'M ALWAYS SURPRISED HOW MANY DIFFERENT OPINIONS THERE ARE, ALL OF WHICH ARE VALID. WHICH MEAN WEES JUST HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT EVERYBODY ELSE HAS A DIFFERENT SET OF GLASSES, THEY HAVE A DIFFERENT VIEW AND THE MORE WE CAN FLEX TO THEIR VIEWS AND EXPRESS OURS, THE BETTER. COMMUNICATION WITH YOUR GROUP IS KEY. YOU WANT TO THINK ABOUT YOUR COMMUNICATION STYLE. I WON'T SAY WHAT RATIO OF DIFFERENT THINGS YOU SHOULD DO BUT I WANT TO GIVE YOU AN OPTION, MANY OPTIONS FOR WAYS TO COMMUNICATE NO DOUBT INFORMAL ACTIONS AND OFFICE, A WALK-BY, THROUGH THE LAB, HOW ARE YOU DOING, WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY, HAVING AN OPEN DOOR POLICY, H LIMITED SOCIAL INTERACTIONS WITH THE ENTIRE GROUP. GIVE YOU A CHANCE OF COMMUNICATING WITH EVERYBODY, EVEN AT THE BEGIN HANDWRITING THE GROUP IS SMALL, YOU HAVE TO DECIDE DO I AT ANY POINT WITH OTHER PEOPLE, JUST WITH US, EVERY WEEK, WHAT FORMAT IS BEST FOR US? ONE-ON-ONE MEETINGS WITH TEAMS OR INDIVIDUALS IS A GOOD WAY TO GO. SMALL GROUP OR PROJECT MEETINGS WOULD BE LIKE THE TEAM MEETINGS I JUST REFER TO, MY LAB AND ALSO THE OITE PERIODICALLY WE HAVE THESE STRATEGY SESSIONS WHERE I TRY TO BE QUIET AND NOT PUT MY THOUGHTS OUT THERE. I JUST SAY, WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK ABOUT AND WE TRY TO BE WILD AND CRAZY AS POSSIBLE BEFORE WE MAKE DECISIONS, WE DID STRATEGY SESSIONS RELATED TO GRANTS EARLY SO WE COULD DECIDE WHAT AGENTS WE NEED TO LINE UP, WHAT PRELIMINARY DATA WE NEED AND THEN THERE'S FORMAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW. MOST PEOPLE ROLL THEIR EYES AND SAY THOSE ARE USELESS AND I WOULD AGREE IF THEY'RE DONE POORLY THEY'RE COMPLETELY USELESS. BUT IF THEY'RE DONE WELL, IT'S A CHANCE TO REALLY SIT DOWN AND GENUINELY LOOK AT IT. IF IT'S THE ONLY FEEDBACK YOU GIVE, IT WON'T WORK BUT IT HAS ITS PLACE IN THE REST OF THESE DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES. SO A MADE A COMMENT ABOUT HIGH MORAL VERSES LOW MORAL, TO USE AND I JUST WANT TO REITERATE THERE'S A SENSE OF HIGH TEAM SPIRIT, HIGH MORAL, MORE COOPERATION, ACTIVITY AND TEAM WORK HAPPENS. THE OTHER DAY I WAS AT A SCIENTIFIC MEETING WHERE A DIRECTOR SAID, THERE JUST NEEDS TO BE MORE FUN. HOW OFTEN DO I HEAR THE WORD FUN AT WORK. BUT IF FACT THERE'S A LOT OF PROOF IN THAT. WE CAN WORK HARD AND HAVE FUN. THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT. YOU WANT PEOPLE SAYING THIS IS THE BEST LAB TO WORK IN. WE WORK REALLY HARD BUT WE HAVE A LOT OF GOOD TIMES. WE HAVE A LOT OF FUN. SO JUST THINGS ABOUT BUILDING AND MAINTAINING MORAL, YOU WILL NEED TO DECIDE YOUR LEVEL OF DISCLOSURE HOW MUCH OF YOU YOU WILL BRING TO WORK EVERY DAY BUT I HOPE CAN YOU REACH A POINT WHERE YOU'RE COMFORTABLE BEING YOURSELF, SHARING APPROPRIATELY AND WITHOUT OVERSTEPPING BOUNDARIES, SHARING ABOUT YOU, YOUR LIFE, THE THINGS YOU LIKE TO DO, SO THAT YOUR GROUP AND THE PEOPLE WILL BE THE SAME. GOES A LONG WAY TO REMEMBER TO ASK HOW SOMEBODY'S CHILD IS, OR HOW THEY DID IN THE RACE? HOW THEY ENJOYED THE PLAY, WHATEVER. IT SHOWS YOU VALUE THEM AS PEOPLE. YOU HAVE TO MANAGE YOUR STRESS AND EMOTIONS SO THEY DON'T INFECT THE GROUP. SO ALL EMOTIONS ARE INFECTIVE BUT THE BOSS' MOST SO. IF YOU FEEL POSITIVE AND ENERGETIC, THAT WILL HELP YOU FEEL POSITIVE AND ENERGETIC AND IF YOU BRING A LOT OF NEGATIVE EMOTION TO WORK IT WILL SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE. OKAY, IT'S AN EPIDEMIC IN THE BOSS COMES IN AND SPREADS THEIR STRESS. I THINK TRADITIONS GO A LONG WAY. WE HAD A GROUP TRADITION OF GOING TO THE SNACK SHOP AFTER EVERY PAPER GOT ACCEPTED AFTER UNDERGRADUATES GAVE A TALK, SOMEONE DEFENDED THEIR THESIS, THE NEXT PERSON HAD TO BAKE A CAKE AND IT HAD TO BE ABOUT SCIENCE. WE HAD ION CHANNEL CAKES, THEY DIDN'T ALWAYS TASTE GREAT BUT THEY LOOKED GREAT AND IT WAS ONE OF THESE LITTLE TRADITIONS BUT FOR YOU, FOR EVERYBODY, YOU DON'T WANT TO BE KNOWN AS THE PARTY LAB BUT THOSE TRADITIONS SOMETIMES MEANS THERE'S NOTHING TO CONNECT WITH OR HOLD ON TO. YOU WANT TO BE A REAL PERSON, YOU WANT TO THINK ABOUT CONNECTING WITH PEOPLE, HUMOR CAN BE A GOOD WAY. HUMAN IS DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE AND NOW YOU'RE IN POWER. SO WHAT SEEMS OKAY TO PEERS MAY NOT BE OKAY COMING DOWN. SO YOU WANT TO BE CAREFUL AND THOUGHTFUL ABOUT THAT BUT YOU WANT TO BE A GENUINE PERSON. I TALKED ABOUT BEING OPEN AND SHARING BUT NOT TOO MUCH. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT GOES A LONG WAY IS SHARING YOUR PASSION FOR WORK. >> WHY YOU'RE SO EXCITED TO BE THE EXPERIMENT, WHY YOU THINK THE EXPERIMENT THEY'RE DOING IS SO GREAT. IT'S IMPORTANT TO SHARE THE POSITIVE EVEN WHEN OVERALL THE RESULTS WEREN'T SO POSITIVE, RIGHT? HERE'S WHAT WENT WELL IN ALL OF THIS SO THAT'S IMPORTANT AROUND SHARING YOUR PASSION. I TALKED EARLIER ABOUT BEING VISIBLE AND AVAILABLE AND LEADING BY EXAMPLE, IT'S A KEY IMPORTANT THING. YOU WANT TO ESTABLISH AUTHORITY AND I UNDERSTAND THAT AND THAT CAN BE VERY, VERY DIFFICULT. ESPECIALLY SOME OF YOU WILL HIRE PEOPLE CLOSE TO YOU IN AGE, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO BE THE AUTHORITY. SOMETIMES IN ORDER TO WEAR THE CLOAK OF AUTHORITY, WET GET ALOOF AND ARROGANT. WE ARE STRESSED. OKAY AND SO WE'RE VERY IMPATIENT BECAUSE WE WANT THINGS TO WORK BUT YOU WANT TO BE CAREFUL. TOO MUCH OF THAT, THE WHOLE ENVIRONMENT STARTS TO FEEL THAT WAY. AND I WANT TO MENTION THIS ONE BECAUSE IT COMES UP SO OFTEN IN PRIVATE IN MY LAB, LITTLE WAYS TO SHARE IN MY OFFICE, LITTLE WAYS TO SHARE CREDIT GO A LONG WAY, SO YOU GET A TALK AND GET INVITED TO GIVE LOTS OF TALKS AS A FACULTY MEMBER AT STUDENT RECRUITING AT DEPARTMENT RETREATS, CENTER RESEARCH SYMPOS YEAH, HOPEFULLY OUT THERE AND PRESENT. EVERY TIME CAN YOU SHARE CREDIT, IS CAPITAL IN THE BANK. IT MAKES PEOPLE WANT TO WORK HARD, AND IT HARDLY HURTS YOU TO END WITH THE SLIDES THAT SAYS HERE'S ALL THE STUDENTS AND FELLOWS WORKING IN MY LAB RIGHT NOW. I APPRECALL OF THEM. THE WORK WAS DONE PRIMARILY BY SO AND SO AND SO AND SO, BUT EVERYONE CONTRIBUTED. THE NUMBER OF TIMES PEOPLE COME TO ME WITH WHAT STARTED AS A SMALL SLIGHT OF I DIDN'T GET ACKNOWLEDGED BUT GREW BECAUSE ONCE YOU HAVE A LITTLE, HAVE YOU A CATALYTIC THING. HAVE YOU A LITTLE UNHAPPINESS AND WE JUST USE THAT TO FIND OUT. WHAT ELSE AREN'T WE HAPPY WITH HERE. SO SHARING CREDIT IS A REALLY GOOD IDEA. WE PUSH SO HARD AND TELL YOURSELF YOU HAVE TO BE ADVOCATES, YOU HAVE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THE ROOM AND OWN THE MATERIAL. YOU HAVE TO SHOW YOURSELF AS A BOSS, YES, BUT AT THE SAME TIME CAN YOU DO THAT AND SHARE CREDIT. SO I THINK WE SOMETIMES FORGET TO REMIND THAT YOU THERE'S TWO SIDES TO THAT. AND THEN FINALLY THE FASTER YOU STEP IN AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR WRITING THINGS, THE BETTER. WE'RE HAVING ISSUES WITH LAB CLEANLINESS AND THAT'S BECAUSE I DIDN'T THINK THROUGH CAREFULLY HOW WE WERE ALL GOING TO CONTRIBUTE TO KEEPING THINGSEREDDERLY. LET'S HAVE A CLEAN UP DAY, I'M OUT THERE CLEANING, TOO, NOT IN THE OFFICE. YOU HAVE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY YOU HAVE TO LEAD BY EXAMPLE. SO THE FASTER YOU GET THINGS ON TRACK, THE BETTER. SO I WANT TO END, I WILL TAKE QUESTIONS AND I JUST WANT TO SAY A COUPLE OF THINGS. SO, THIS IS A GREAT DAY TO GIVE THIS WORKSHOP BECAUSE I GOT AN E-MAIL FROM THE NIH FELLOW WHO ARRIVED AFTER ME, WHO WAS TOLD TODAY THAT HIS TENURE PACKAGE WAS APPROVED AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL. SO, THAT'S PRETTY AMAZING, SO YOU KNOW, ALL OF YOU WILL HIT HIGH POINTS NONAPOPTOTIC YOUR CAREERS, YOU WILL HAVE SOME BUGS, WE ARE NOT THE BEST BOSSES OR LEADERS OR MENTORS, WE WILL NOT BE THE BEST TEACHER ALL THE TIME, NOT THE BEST FOR EVERY STUDENT. SOME STUDENTS WILL LOVE US AND SOME WILL SAY, OH, I COULD NEVER WORK WITH HER. BUT YOU HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO DO A LOT OF GOOD. AND YOU'VE TRIED HARD AND LONG TO GET HERE SO YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GIVE YOURSELF A BREAK AND APPRECIATE THAT YOU HAVE A LONG TIME TO MAKE YOUR MARK. TENURE IS NOT TOMORROW AND WE ALL MAKE BUMPS ALONG THE WAY. WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES. WE ALL MEANDER AND THINGS MIGHT COME TOGETHER SLOWER THAN WE WISH AND WE MIGHT HIRE SOMEBODY AND MAKE THE MISTAKE AND HOW DO I GET OUT OF THIS. HAVE YOU ROOM AND TIME FOR THAT. BUT THE FASTER YOU LOOK AT YOUR WEEK SPOTS, AND THEY'RE FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU NEED TO BE BETERA, FIGURE OUT WHAT LIABILITY--LIABILITIES YOU NEED TO WORK AROUND, THE MORE TIME YOU CAN ATTEND WHAT YOU LOVE AND MORE LOYALTY TO YOU, MORE PEOPLE ON YOUR CAMPUS WILL BECOME YOUR ADVOCATES AND GIVING YOU RESOURCES TO HELP YOU. SO YOU SHOULD REVIEW THE BUMPS ALONG THE WAY, AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN FOR THE NEXT TIME FIND MENTORS, MENTORING AND SCIENCE MENTORS, MANAGEMENT MENTORS, ET CETERA TO TALK THINKS THROUGH. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR RESOURCES WHILE YOU'RE HERE, AND WE OFFER A LOT OF THINGS FOR FREE AT NATIONAL MEETINGS SO FIND US IF YOU'RE AT A MEETING AND WERE THERE. I TALKED ALREADY ABOUT THE WORKPLACE DYNAMIC SERIOUS AND THE BOOT CAMP, MENTOR TRAINING CORK SHOP, ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING WORKSHOP AND WE HAVE NEW OFFERINGS IN WELLNESS ONE OF WHICH WON'T BE LAUNCHED BY THE TME YOU LEAVE BUT IT'S BECOME--IT'S WEIGHING ON MY MIND A LOT. I HAVE THIS FEELING THAT A GUY ALONE COULD TESTIFY ON THIS. SO I THINK I WILL TRY. I MIGHT GET LAUGHED AT OCCASIONALLY BUT KEEP YOUR EYE OUT FOR IT. I THINK IT COULD ENHANCE YOUR SUCCESS IN THE FUTURE. HHMI HAS THE MAKING THE RIGHT MOVES THE MANAGEMENT BOOK, THE BOOK STAFFING THE LAB, CAN YOU GET THESE ONLINE. I WILL E-MAIL THE SLIDES AS SOON AS I GET BACK TO THE OFFICE. EITHER TODAY OR TOMORROW MORNING DEPENDING ON THE TIME. WE HAVE SOME GOOD BOOKS ENTERING MENTORING AT THE HELM. WE HAVE A BOOK ON BEING THE LEADER OF THE LAB, THE MOTHER, AND THE ELEPHANT AND THE LABORATORY, WE HAVE GOOD BOOKS ON LEADERSHIP, DIVERSE ENVIRONMENT, ACADEMIC SCIENCES AT WORK, ET CETERA. YOU CAN CHECK OUT ALL THOSE BOOKS, SCAN YOUR I.D. CARD AND THEN ABOUT SIX MONTHS FROM NOW, WE WILL SEND YOU AN E-MAIL AND REMIND THAT YOU YOU DIDN'T RRN IT AND TELL BE GREAT IF YOU BROUGHT IT BACK IN TWO-THREE WEEKS AND THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD WEB SITES WITH INFORMATION. SO WITH THAT I WILL STOP AND TAKE ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE. I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANYTHING ON TOPICS I COVERED OR DIDN'T COVER. SO THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING AND FOR THOSE OF WHO YOU LEAVING, PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE WITHOUT JOINING THE ALUMNI DATABASE SO WE KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING SO WE CAN INVITE YOU BACK. IF YOU ARE SHARING YOUR JOB PACKET YOUR SCHEDULE OF YOUR INTERVIEW AND AN OFFER LETTER ALCOHOL BE SCRUBBED OF ANYTHING THAT CAN LEAD BACK TO EVEN THE AREA OF THE COUNTRY THAT THE OFFER COMES FROM LET ME KNOW. I WOULD APPRECIATE IT. IT'S HARD TO SCRUB THE APPLICATION PACKET CLEAN BECAUSE PUBLICATIONS MATTER. I DO MY BEST TO AT LEAST REMOVE ANYTHING YOU WANT REMOVED AND SOME PEOPLE SAY PLEASE JUST TAKE OUT THE PAPERS THAT,'S OKAY ALSO. BUT IT'S HELPFUL FOR THE NEXT GROUP OF PEOPLE. SO IF YOU HAVE MATERIALS LET ME KNOW AND WE HAVE EXAMPLES FROM LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES, MEDICAL SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, ET CETERA. SO, IF YOU WANT SEND ME AN E-MAIL SO WITH THAT I WILL TAKE QUESTIONS. YEAH? >> THE QUESTION IS WHAT IS THE MAIN FOCUS OF TENURE? AND AT EVERY SINCE TUITION IT'S DIFFERENT, SO THAT'S WHY I SAID, WHEN YOU GET THERE, YOU NEED TO TALK TO YOUR CHAIR AND ASK THEM FOR EXAMPLES OF SUCCESSFUL PACKAGES AND ASK THEM WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT AT THAT INSTITUTION. SO SCHOOLS, ALL SCHOOLS SAY THERE'S A COMPONENT OF SCHOLARSHIP, A COMPONENT OF TEACHING AND A COMPONENT OF SERVICE, BUT THE HONEST TRUTH IS THAT THEY MAY BE BOUND EXACTLY THE SAME, OR ONE MAY MATTER MUCH MORE THAN THE OTHERS AND EVERY SCHOOL IS DIFFERENT. SO I CAN'T ANSWER THAT. BUT I CAN SAY IS THAT YOU WILL NEED TO ESTABLISH YOURSELF AS A SCHOLAR WITHIN YOUR FIELD BROADLY AND OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY, SO INVITATIONS TO SERVE, TO REVIEW PAPERS TO SERVE ON STUDY SECTIONS, THAT FALLS UNDER RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP. SCHOLARSHIP AT A LIBERAL ARTS INTUITION CAN INCLUDE PUBLISHING PAPERS ABOUT PEDAGOGY AND CAN INCLUDE PUBLISHING RESEARCH PAPERS, SO IT DEPENDS ON THE INSTITUTION. TEACHING CAN BE EVERYTING FROM A LIST OF EVERY STUDENT YOU HAVE IN THE LAB AND WHERE THEY ARE NOW. SO MY TENURE IS LISTED AND I HAD TO KNOW WHERE THEY WERE AND THEY WERE THERE TRAINING GRANTS AT A UNIVERSITY, YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHERE PEOPLE HAVE GONE. SO YOU NEED A FILE THAT YOU'RE KEEPING TRACK OF AND THEN SERVICE WAS COMMITTEES AND THE DEPARTMENTS. AND COMMITTEES IN THE COLLEGE, THAT WAS THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE FOR ME. COMMITTEES IN THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY, COMMITTEES IN THE AREA IN GENERAL AND EVERY UNIVERSITY HAS A DIFFERENT GALLANCE AND THEY WILL GIVE YOU INSIGHT INTO THAT. YOUR NIH BIOSKETCH IS ONE, YOU WILL HAVE A LONG CV WITH EVERYTHING THAT WILL HELP YOU KEEP MOVE NOTHING YOUR CAREER, WHETHER IT'S TO A DIFFERENT INSTITUTION OR UPWARD AND THEN THERE'S A TENURE CV WHICH LITERALLY IS EVERYTHING YOU HAVE DONE IN THAT AMOUNT OF TIME AT THE UNIVERSITY AND THAT'S WHY I SAID ASK FOR AN EXAMPLE BECAUSE IT'S A VERY UNIQUE DOCUMENT, IT FOLLOWS RIGID FORMATTING, SET BY THE UNIVERSITY. >> PAPERS HERE WILL HELP YOU GET FUNDED BUT THEY WON'T SAY THE UNIVERSITY, THEY WILL SAY NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH. SO, IT WON'T BE A BIG HELP. --IT'S NOT. IT'S A GOOD THING. FINISH EVERY PAPER YOU CAN, YOU NEED THEM FOR GRANTS. IT'S A GOOD THING. OTHER QUESTION? S. YEAH? >> [INDISCERNIBLE]. SO THE QUESTION IN GENERAL IS HOW DO I DECIDE WHAT I CAN SPEND. WHAT'S A GOOD RULE OF THUMB AND THE EMERGENCY FUNDS AND WHAT HAPPEN FIST I DON'T GET A GRANT. LET ME ADDRESS WHAT I CAN AFFORD. YOU DON'T WANT TO SPEND ALL YOUR MONEY IN THE FIRST FEW YEARS, WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU GET A GRANT? WILL YOU GET MORE? HOPEFULLY THEY'RE NOT GOING TO DECREASE YOUR START UP BECAUSE OF THAT BUT YOU MAY HAVE A TERM IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT AT THREE YEARS OR IT'S OURS OR WHATEVER, SO YOU WILL KNOW HOW LONG THE MONEY WILL LAST. GENERALLY IT'S HARD TO BE OPTIMISTIC UNTIL YOU HAVE A GRANT THAT HAS A PRETTY DESCENT SCORE. I THINK NOBODY SHOULD GO CRAZE CRAZE SCHESPEND MONEY UPFRONT. OT OTHER HAND, IF YOU SORE CAUTIOUS YOU DON'T GET WORK DONE, IT'S REALLY UNFORTUNATE. WHAT HAPPEN FIST YOU DON'T GET A GRANT. I RAN OUT OF START UP MONEY, I RAN OUT, I WENT TO MY CHAIR, HE GAVE ME EXTRA, AND I SHOULD HAVE TALKED ABOUT THAT. IF IT'S $5000, DON'T PUT $50,000 WORTH OF TIME INTO IT BUT CAN YOU ALL WHIP TOGETHER A PROPOSAL FOR A $5000 GRANT REALLY QUICKLY. SO COLLEAGUES MIGHT HELP YOU OUT A BIT. AS--UNIVERSITIES ARE WELL AWARE OF THE DIFFICULTY IN FUNDERRING AND THEY HAVE BRIDGE FUNDS AND WAYS TO SUPPORT EARLY CAREER INVESTIGATORS. THAT'S WHY DIALOGUING WITH YOUR CHAIR ALL THE WAY FROM THE BEGINNING MATTERS SO MUCH. HE OR SHE, SHOULD HAVE YOUR BEST INTEREST IN MIND. THAT MAY MEAN HIRING A TECHNICIAN ON YOUR BEHALF, HIRE A STUDENT, BUT TOO CAUTIOUS, YOU WILL NOT GET OFF THE GROUND RUNNING. IF YOU SPEND EVERYTHING OUT IN A YEAR AND HAVE YOU NOTHING COMING IN AND THEN YOU HIT THE GROUND RUNNING AND YOU GET AN ABRUPTIVE HALT AND I WOULD SAY DIVIDE MONEY BY THE NUMBER OF YEARS IT'S SUPPOSED TO COVER. AND FRONT LOAD THE BEGINNING A LITTLE. SOME PEOPLE MIGHT TELL YOU TO BE MORE CAUTIOUS. I'M NOT A GOOD PERSON TO OPERATING GLOBALLY ASK BECAUSE I HOLD MY BREATH AND IT DOES AND I LEARNED BAD BEHAVIOR BECAUSE OF THAT. >> SO I WORKED CLOTSLYY WORK WIDE PEOPLE AT THE UNC CENTER SO THERE WERE CLINICAL FELLOWS AND LIKE GRADUATE STUDENTS AND UNDERGRADUATES, SOME ARE STARS AND SOME ARE NOT. SUMMER RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES TO ME THEICAL WENCH CLINICAL FELLOWS WAS THAT THEY WANTED TO DO SOMETHING CLINICALLY RELEVANT THAN MY PROJECTS. I HAD TO BE AN EXPERT AND I RESISTED THAT BUT AS I GREW VERY OPEN MINDED TO APPRECIATE THE POWER OF COLLABORATIONS AND CO MENTORS I WOULD DO SOMETHING CLINICAL AND WHAT COULD I TRIBUTE TO THAT AND LET THAT STUDENT BE SORT OF THE GLUE BETWEEN IT. AND SOMETIMES MY Ph.D. STUDENTS PULL ME IN CLINICAL DIRECTIONS, I GET NERVOUS BECAUSE I HAVE THAT THING I NEED TO KNOW EVERYTHING. RIGHT? BUT IF I WOULD GO ALONG OFTEN IT LED TO SOMETHING GOOD AND NEW. SO I THINK IF THEY SEEM--IF ANYBODY SEEMS COMPATIBLE WITH YOU, IF THEY IF THEY HAVE GENERAL GOOD INTERPERSONAL SKILLS. THAT WOULD BE MY TAKE AT LEAST. THEY SERVE ON I JUST DIDN'T DO THAT, AND I FELT FINE WITH IT. I WILL TAKE PEOPLE WITHOUT RESEARCH EXPERIENCE BECAUSE THEY WERE HUNGRY TO GET IT. SO IT WAS WORTH A TRY AND IT WORKED OUT MORE TIMES THAN NOT. PROBABLY OFFENDED SOMEBODY, BAY SAYING YOU SAID WE WERE CHEAP. >> [INDISCERNIBLE]. >> I GENERALLY WORK WITH STUDENT WHO IS DON'T HAVE WITH WET LABS I FIND THEY USE THEIR START UP MONEY FOR STATISTICAL PACKAGES, FOR I.T. SUPPORT FOR COMPUTERS COMPUTER TIME FTHEY NEED TIME ON CLUSTERS OR AND FOR TRAVEL TO MEETINGS AND FOR BOOKS. IT'S SUCH AN INTERESTING EXPERIENCE WE HAVE, THE RANGE OF START UP IS SO MANY ZEROS DIFFERENT YET, YOU KNOW DEPENDING ON WHAT YOU DO, YOUR NEEDS ARE SO DIFFERENT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY, I WISH YOU THE