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Article: Top of the PI Wish List: Interpersonal Skills
- Article from:
- The Scientist
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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Making sure people work well together isn't just the right thing to do. It's the moral thing to do.
WHEN I WORKED IN THE LAB I WAS LUCKY: MY COWORKERS WERE GENERALLY agreeable and often became my close friends, and the lab heads, despite lacking any obvious training, applied plenty of common sense. We worked in a relaxed, low-pressure environment where the human interactions and group dynamics were never sorely tested. I dread to think how we would have coped with the higher stress levels of a competitive situation and a couple of obnoxious coworkers.
The examples in the feature by Kerry Grens on page 26 give me some idea. Yelling, crying, bullying, skullduggery of all kinds, and an ...