Wednesday, April 15, 2009

How can we work together well?

A colleague asked me to do a post about avoiding misunderstandings and problems in student-supervisor relationships. One thing I have found extremely helpful and effective is for anyone I supervise (postdocs and students) to write out and discuss a list of expectations. What we expect of each other and of ourselves. One of my Ph.D students, Elvis Shoko, kindly agreed to allow me to post the document he drafted. The idea of "win/win performance agreements" is discussed in Habit 4 of The 7 Habits of highly effective people: restoring the character ethic by Stephen R. Covey.
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2 comments:

  1. EricApril 15, 2009 at 11:55 PM

    I am very interested in this post, but the link to "the document" only links to this blog page.

    Thanks Eric

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  2. Ross H. McKenzieApril 16, 2009 at 4:34 AM

    It works on mine. Try

    https://sites.google.com/site/emergentphysics/Home/Elvis.doc?attredirects=0

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