3 Days to Better Storytelling - Day 1: Get Inspired
Source: Pam Sturner Note from Pam: Many of our fellows have found storytelling to be a powerful tool for talking about their work and why...
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3 Days to Better Storytelling: Day 2 - Prepare
Source: Pam Sturner Inspired by our fellows’ successes in using stories to promote change, we recently started collecting resources to...
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3 Days to Better Storytelling: Day 3 - Practice
Source: Pam Sturner This is the last of our 3-part series, “3 Days to better storytelling,” tips and ideas for strengthening your...
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7 Tidbits for Better Blogging
Source: Kevin Krizek I don’t claim to be the master of effective blogging. I have read a bit about it and have experimented with my own...
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Lessons from the Blogosphere: An Ecologist's Perspective
Source: Luis Zambrano Why I Blog It is impossible to explain in 140 characters the interactions and unexpected results happening in...
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Writing Science: A Book and a blog
Source: Josh Schimel Purpose: Save time! Audience: Faculty who are spending hours editing graduate students' papers Josh wrote the...
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5 Steps to a Kick-Ass Presentation
Source: Jill Caviglia-Harris In my yearlong exploration of science communication, I focused on learning more about communication in the...
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5 Essential Elements of Impactful Design
Source: Jill Caviglia-Harris Design can make the difference between an impactful message and a forgotten claim. Design is not...
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Before and After: Applying "Communication Design" Rules
Source: Jill Caviglia-Harris In my yearlong exploration of science communication, I focused on learning more about...
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Getting the Secret Sauce of Climate Communication
Source: Jill Caviglia-Harris Jane Lubchenco, former head of NOAA and National Academy of Sciences member, is one of the best...
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What If?: The Art of Scenario Thinking for Non-Profits
Source: Margaret Krebs Purpose: To visualize alternative futures Audience: Stakeholders and decision-makers For more information: ...
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Multidisciplinary problem-solving
Source: Karen Lips Purpose: Teaching a collaborative problem-solving course with business and biology graduate students Audience: ...
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Listening Walk
Source: Margaret Krebs Purpose: Reflecting Audience: Participants in an ongoing group: task force, lab, workshop You've probably heard...
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Breaking Ice and Controlling the Mike
Source: John Sabo One of the most daunting leadership roles I have recently confronted is directing large groups of faculty to...
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Designing the Destination: 2 Hours to a Vision and Mission for Our Center
Source: John Sabo In my last post, I described how I used Think-Pair-Share in a 2-hour meeting to build trust and momentum among faculty...
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An Innovative approach to writing a lab mission statement
Source: Chris Buddle Note from Elena Bennett (2011): What does your lab do and why? In our Leopold Leadership training, we learned about...
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Saving time, getting results: Tips for effective meetings with graduate students
Note from Pam Sturner, former Executive Director: Time management comes up in conversation at the Leopold Leadership Program as an...
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Developing Relationships Is Important Work: It Supports All the Other Work
We were nearly an hour into the first meeting of the Boreas Student Advisory Team, and you might think we hadn’t done much. No data...
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Gather: The Art and Science of Effective Convening
Purpose: Tool for designing interactive, productive meetings Audience: an individual or planning committee for any type of event...
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Mindmapping
Purpose: Strategizing Mindmapping is a tool to use when exploring an idea or concept in depth. Peter Redstone and Martin Bloxham shared...
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