Workplace Navigation Training - March

These workshops provide students, trainees, and employees with the knowledge, skills, support and clarity they need to effectively assess and successfully navigate any lab environment and achieve their professional and career goals.

All Community College Students, Faculty, and Alumni are welcome to attend. You can attend one workshop or attend them all!

Mar 10th: Negotiating for What You Need

Free Interactive Zoom Workshops
All Workshop Dates and Topics

• Friday, December 9th 4-6pm PT - Utilizing an Interview to Determine a “Good Fit”
• Friday, January 20th 4-6pm PT- Establishing Yourself in a New Position
• Friday, February 17th 4-6pm PT - Managing Expectations: Asking for & Obtaining Feedback
• Friday, March 10th 4-6pm PT - Negotiating for What You Need

Format: Interactive Zoom workshop

Presenter: Naledi Saul, MPM, Director, UCSF Office of Career and Professional Development

Description: A career conversation with your mentor-manager is essentially a negotiation. It's a time to discuss your career path, what types of support your mentor-manager is willing and able to offer, and the level of productivity they'll need to see to continue to support you.

Using best practices from Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most (Stone, Patton, Heen and Fisher), participants will go through the steps of preparing for a negotiation (including identifying conversational goals and concerns about the conversation, assessing their research mentor's position and preferences, etc.), brainstorm different conversational tactics for each stage of a negotiation (including opening the conversation, negotiating different issues, coming to agreement and ending a conversation) and consider steps post-conversation.

Workshop participants will come away with strategies to:

● Identify the steps to prepare for a career conversation

● Consider how your mentor-manager would prefer to have this conversation

● Develop talking points to keep the conversation on track

● Discuss how to open, have and exit the conversation

● Identify strategies if a conversation becomes contentious

● Describe next steps post-conversation(s)

All Science Community College Students, Alumni & Faculty are Welcome!

You can also find strategies and tools to implement today at Building Inclusive Labs. This NSF ATE Project is a collaboration between the Biotechnology Program at City College of San Francisco and the Office of Career Planning and Development at the University of California, San Francisco. This work is funded by the National Science Foundation through NSF DUE #2055735, 2055309