1. So You’ve Just Become the Boss… Skills to Deal with Difficult Situations Virginia M. Miller, MBA, PhD Professor, Surgery and Physiology Director, Office of Women’s Health April 4, 2005 ASPET/APS Women's Breakfast Workshop

2. Objectives Leaders Role Guidelines for Effective Communication Legal Issues Case Presentations

3. Mistakes Leaders Make Conflict Avoidance Waiting too long to intervene Fear of tough decisions Criticism without enough praise Lack of creativity

4. Creative OPTIONS Retreat Accommodate Battle Negotiate Problem solve Customize

5. FIVE Step plan What is your goal? Determine the setting Emotions - control them Practice what you will say AVOID email and voice mail

6. Discussion Template Describe the problem Impact - consequences Listen Options: Discuss or Dictate Follow-up Encourage

7. Legal/Ethical Issues Publish or Perish Authorship Conflict of Interest Protection Copyright Intellectual Property Plagiarism

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

9. Consider the Cost Forgive others and yourself Move on Is this the final answer?

11. Authorship Substantial contribution Drafting and revising article for intellectual content Final approval

12. Conflict of Interest Dual or competing commitments Financial and/or personal relationships Real or perceived

13. Protection Governing principles for human rights and animal welfare Privacy and confidentiality

14. Copyright Journal or Open access; who owns it? How do you transfer it? What is the protection for intellectual property?

15. Intellectual Property Who’s idea is it anyway? Material transfers Patent protection/copyright

16. Plagiarism Copying other’s work Copying your own work Duplicate publication How do you know?

17. Useful Tool “ Useful Tool “ How to review a paper” Adv Physiol Edu 27:47-52, 2003