Effective Hiring, Management, Troubleshooting

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Effective Hiring, Management, Troubleshooting

• Stacie Furst-Holloway, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor
• Department of Psychology

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Workshop Description

• Success as a faculty member rarely is
  accomplished alone.  Effective teaching,
  research, and service all require a great deal of
  teamwork and support to ensure that you have the
  time, resources, and tools to perform at your
  best. 

In this session, we will discuss specific
strategies for building an effective support team
through the recruitment and development of
undergraduate and graduate research assistants,
teaching assistants, and lab members.  
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Learning Objectives

• To identify the various options available to
  faculty for recruiting undergraduate and graduate
  students
• To articulate a preliminary plan for how they may
  incorporate student support into their work to
  maximize productivity
• To describe the criteria to be used in the
  selection process
• To understand the steps used in on-boarding new
  team members

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Building Your Team

• Teaching Assistants
• Research Assistants
• http//www.uc.edu/provost/priorities/URSC.html
• Graduate Students
• Student Workers

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Building Your Team Step-by-Step
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Identify Your Selection Criteria
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Selection / Interview

• Develop on-line or paper application
• Attention to detail timeliness
• Set up interview
• Screening interview with a graduate student
• Final (30 min) interview with you
• Questions
• What is important for you to learn? Why?

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Develop a Learning Contract

• Designed for for credit experiences
• See Sample Handout
• Multiple iterations likely
• Acts as a formal contract
• Level of detail will vary by preference

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On-Boarding / Orientation

• Introduction to area, lab members, other faculty
  and staff
• Location of work
• Training
• CITI training for research members
• Blackboard training for TAs
• Re-iteration of norms and expectations

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Get Started

• Performance Management
• Weekly meetings
• Bi-semester performance evaluation meetings
• Tangibles (progress on deliverables)
• Intangibles (fit, professionalism)

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Troubleshooting

• Departmental faculty (BTDT)
• Best practices
• Departmental norms
• University Resources
• Office of Undergraduate Research (URSC)
• Graduate School
• CETL
• Blackboard UCit