If you are not all heading in the same direction, there will be potential for confusion and conflict. Your team will benefit from you setting out your vision and why it is important. You may not all be working on the same projects, but that doesn’t mean that there can’t be a vision for how you will work together.
- Tip sheet - five tips for a successful team vision (pdf)
- Look at our resources in ‘Managing yourself and your career’ that will help you to think through your vision and strategy before presenting it to your group. Or you can use the videos in the ‘Being strategic in your career (and research)’ to start a discussion to design your strategy with your team
- – an online module to help you to articulate your own research vision. Use it to encourage members of your team, as they move towards independence, to develop their own research vision.
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