So You’ve Just Become the So You’ve Just Become the Boss…Boss…

Skills to Deal with Difficult Skills to Deal with Difficult SituationsSituations

Virginia M. Miller, MBA, PhD

Professor, Surgery and Physiology

Director, Office of Women’s Health

April 4, 2005

ASPET/APS Women's Breakfast Workshop

ObjectivesObjectives

• Leaders Role

• Guidelines for Effective Communication

• Legal Issues

• Case Presentations

Mistakes Leaders MakeMistakes Leaders Make

Conflict Avoidance

Waiting too long to intervene

Fear of tough decisions

Criticism without enough praise

Lack of creativity

Creative OPTIONSCreative OPTIONS

• Retreat

• Accommodate

• Battle

• Negotiate

• Problem solve

CustomizeCustomize

FIVE Step planFIVE Step plan

What is your goal?

Determine the setting

Emotions - control them

Practice what you will say

AVOID email and voice mail

Discussion TemplateDiscussion Template

• Describe the problem

• Impact - consequences

• Listen

• Options: Discuss or Dictate

• Follow-up

• Encourage

Legal/Ethical IssuesLegal/Ethical Issues

Publish or PerishPublish or Perish

• Authorship

• Conflict of Interest

• Protection

• Copyright

• Intellectual Property

• Plagiarism

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to

Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication

Updated November 2003

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors

http://www.icmje.org/http://www.icmje.org/

Consider the CostConsider the Cost

Forgive others and yourselfForgive others and yourself

Move onMove on

Is this the final answer?Is this the final answer?

AuthorshipAuthorship

• Substantial contribution

• Drafting and revising article for intellectual content

• Final approval

Conflict of InterestConflict of Interest

• Dual or competing commitments

• Financial and/or personal relationships

• Real or perceived

ProtectionProtection

• Governing principles for human rights and animal welfare

• Privacy and confidentiality

CopyrightCopyright

• Journal or Open access; who owns it?

• How do you transfer it?

• What is the protection for intellectual property?

Intellectual PropertyIntellectual Property

• Who’s idea is it anyway?

• Material transfers

• Patent protection/copyright

PlagiarismPlagiarism

• Copying other’s work

• Copying your own work

• Duplicate publication

• How do you know?

Useful Tool Useful Tool

““How to review a paper”

Adv Physiol Edu 27:47-52, 2003