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Sandy Sparks, MI Talent Technical Training Manager. Facilitator for this Confidence & Empowerment Module. Looking forward to learning, sharing & empowering you as a leader. 

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Sandy Sparks, MI Talent Technical Training Manager. Facilitator for this Confidence & Empowerment Module. Looking forward to learning, sharing & empowering you as a leader. 

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Women can lead. We need each other to learn, develop and provide support.

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Active engagement and participation.

Learning and reflection

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Please add any books or resources that you have found useful

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Please add any books or resources that you have found useful

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Michelle Jackson, MI TALENT Technical Careers Manager, I am passionate about technical careers

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Michelle Jackson, MI TALENT Technical Careers Manager, I am passionate about technical careers

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Clare Templey, Laboratory Technician (responsible for our undergraduate teaching lab), Geography at the University of Nottingham

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Clare Templey, Laboratory Technician (responsible for our undergraduate teaching lab), Geography at the University of Nottingham

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Lab work, teaching and support, field work, mental health champion, sustainability working group.... all around techy

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Lab work, teaching and support, field work, mental health champion, sustainability working group.... all around techy

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Clare Templey

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Clare Templey

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In the last several years, issues relating to mental health and well-being in academia have attracted increasing attention from researchers and in the popular press. Although scholars have long recognised that academia can be a stressful and demanding profession, it has been argued that the current situation is so serious that it should be described as a "crisis". Both university staff and students are reporting high levels of stress and burnout, both of which can have serious consequences for mental health and well-being. In a recent review of the scholarly literature, work by Guthrie et al. (2017) found that "proportions of both university staff and postgraduate students with a risk of having or developing a mental health problem, based on self-reported evidence, were generally higher than for other working populations."

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In the last several years, issues relating to mental health and well-being in academia have attracted increasing attention from researchers and in the popular press. Although scholars have long recognised that academia can be a stressful and demanding profession, it has been argued that the current situation is so serious that it should be described as a "crisis".

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Assertiveness as a manager, key to confidence, empowerment and managing style for an introvert, resources to help someone managing for the first time 

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Assertiveness as a manager, key to confidence, empowerment and managing style for an introvert, resources to help someone managing for the first time 

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Clare Templey

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Clare Templey

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quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking

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self-help / communication & social skills

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thinking fast and slow; introvert; extrovert; shy; self help; how to build character; the psychopath test jon ronson; how children succeed paul tough; daniel kehneman; introvert power: why your inner life is your hidden strength

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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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Quiet by Susan Cain will change how you think about introverts foreverA Sunday Times and New York Times BestsellerOur lives are driven by a fact that most of us can't name and don't understand. It defines who our friends and lovers are, which careers we choose, and whether we blush when we're emb...

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Sam Tang, Technical Specialist Outreach (combination of undergrad lab tech and public engagement), Chemistry at the University of Nottingham

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Sam Tang, Technical Specialist Outreach (combination of undergrad lab tech and public engagement), Chemistry at the University of Nottingham

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Sam Tang. Public lecture as part of the British Council's SPARK Festival in Hong Kong in 2019.

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Confidence without coming across as arrogant or pushy. 

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Confidence without coming across as arrogant or pushy. 

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Sam Tang

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Barbara Kunz, Project Officer for LA-ICP-MS (spatially resolved trace element analysis of geological material), Earth Science department at the Open University

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Barbara Kunz, Project Officer for LA-ICP-MS (spatially resolved trace element analysis of geological material), Earth Science department at the Open University

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Barbara Kunz doing maintenance on one of the labs mass spectrometers

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Valentina Iorio, Technical Supervisor, School of Life Sciences, University of Liverpool 

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Valentina Iorio, Technical Supervisor, School of Life Sciences, University of Liverpool 

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Tatiana McHardy, Senior Scientific Officer at the ICR (Institute of Cancer Research). I'm a Medicinal Chemist working on development of new drugs for cancer treatment.

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Tatiana McHardy, Senior Scientific Officer at the ICR (Institute of Cancer Research). I'm a Medicinal Chemist working on development of new drugs for cancer treatment.

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To be more assertive with this being associated with more confidence. Learn to be less submissive and speak my words when needed. Normally, I have to deal with some dominant personalities at higher level. Tatiana McHardy

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To be more assertive with this being associated with more confidence. Learn to be less submissive and speak my words when needed. Normally, I have to deal with some dominant personalities at higher level. Tatiana McHardy

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How do I improve my confidence?
Learning how to build good manager-team relationship

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Valentina Iorio

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Valentina Iorio

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Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office book. Read 918 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. If you work nonstop without a break...worry...

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Me in the Chemistry lab (Tatiana McHardy) near my Fumehood.

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Me in the Chemistry lab (Tatiana McHardy) near my Fumehood.

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Isabel Arce Garcia, SEM Scientific Officer, Newcastle University

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Isabel Arce Garcia, SEM Scientific Officer, Newcastle University

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Isabel Arce Garcia, Scanning Electron Microscopy

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Isabel Arce Garcia, Scanning Electron Microscopy

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Speaking with confidence without coming across as being aggressive

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Helena Brown, Laboratory Technician/Manager, School of Earth & Environment, University of Leeds

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Helena Brown, Laboratory Technician/Manager, School of Earth & Environment, University of Leeds

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Learning how to have more confidence, especially in difficult situations or when needing to confront people

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I've chosen a spectrum and it represents the different skills and responsibilities my role contains within one job decription

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Thank you to those that have added to the padlet - loving the pictures etc. Sandy 17.2.2022

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To be assertive without being aggressive. I'm not brave enough to raise issues, worry about them and then when I do something about it I'm aggressive.
To believe in myself.
To enjoy the session.

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Sarah Youde
Tissue Culture Specialist
Cardiff University

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Emma Moore, Leading Research Technician @ the University of Bristol

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Emma Moore, Leading Research Technician @ the University of Bristol

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I'd like to learn confidence techniques & be able to expand my negotiation skills - specifically with managers. 

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I'd like to learn confidence techniques & be able to expand my negotiation skills - specifically with managers. 

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Gwyneth Jones, Technician for Geography Geology and the Environment at Keele University. Main responsibility for field work kit.

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Gwyneth Jones, Technician for Geography Geology and the Environment at Keele University. Main responsibility for field work kit.

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Gwyneth Jones, would, love to be more confident and reduce the need to have my hand held!! To become more familiar with networking. 

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Gwyneth Jones, would, love to be more confident and reduce the need to have my hand held!! To become more familiar with networking. 

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Gwyneth Jones, out doing some field work.

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Great to see your padlet contributions - looking forward to our session tomorrow. Sandy 21.2.2022

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Sarah Hunter
Health & Safety Coordinator (Departments of Biology & Biochemistry and Chemistry)
University of Bath

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Natalie Sobey - Faculty Clinical skills Technical Manager (Faculty of Health)

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Natalie Sobey - Faculty Clinical skills Technical Manager (Faculty of Health)

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University of Plymouth

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Photo taken as part of our technician’s showcase.

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I manage 3 different simulated hospital sites for the School of Nursing and midwifery and 3 different dental phantom head rooms for Peninsula Dental School across Exeter, Plymouth and Truro.

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I tend to be ok with regards to my own confidence and empowerment. Obviously there are things I do struggle with. And sometimes that is due to my own inner belief and often a topic or area I’m not so familiar with.
But as a manager, I want to support and encourage my teams to nourish these characteristics in them.

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Rebecca Sutton. Senior research technician: Environmental sciences, Department of Environment and Geography, University of York. Looking after research labs and analytical instruments, specifically ICP-OES and elemental analysers.

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This is often the scene outside the technical office! A steady stream of student queries, issues and trouble-shooting.

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To be able to confidently conduct conversations with senior management and to speak up in academic-led meetings. To help empower and support other members of the team to overcome the hurdles we've all faced along the way and to flourish!

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Rosa Macey, Analytical & Safety Officer for Chemical Engineering, University of Bath

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Rosa Macey, Analytical & Safety Officer for Chemical Engineering, University of Bath

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Rosa Macey. I'd like to increase my confidence and assertiveness, especially in conflict situations or when negotiation is required. 

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Rosa Macey. I'd like to increase my confidence and assertiveness, especially in conflict situations or when negotiation is required. 

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Charlotte Barker, Senior Chemistry Technician at Nottingham Trent University, mostly based in the undergraduate teaching labs. 

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To know how to take the right tone (or so that others feel that its the right tone) when being confident about issues, to avoid being perceived as too much (i.e. aggressive or attitude issues)

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Liz Starkie
University of Salford

Creative Technical Demonstrator / TV Studio Manager

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I teach students how to use all the equipment you would find within a TV studio and also manage the studio when it is hired out to external clients.

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How to gain confidence when dealing with difficult situations and dealing with difficult people.

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How to gain confidence in my management skills. How to ensure I am heard in high pressure meetings.

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Senior scientific officer and operational lead of the Clinical PD Biomarker Group at the Institute of Cancer Research.

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I manage a team that develops assays to measure whether new cancer drugs are hitting the target in patients on clinical trials and then performs the analysis on the trials. We can be working on up to 40 trials / assay development projects at any one time and I manage everything to do with the projects from the science to budgets, contracts and reporting as well as people and lab management. I still work at the bench too.

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Fiona Robertson. Manufacturing and Development technician, School of Design (Fashion), University of Lincoln

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Hi my name Shelly-Ann (Shelly) Coutts, I am an Advanced Research Assistant at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge.

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Shelly Coutts + 3 of the best colleagues 

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As part of a very large team of young people who are currently sequencing on average 67K Covid-19 samples a week, having these wonderful women with me in the lab plus all the others who make up a large majority of our 60+ team members is fantastic!

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I want to gain more confidence in my own abilities and skills, and to be more assertive when I have ideas that I want to propose.

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I work an Experimental Scientific Officer in the Bioinformatics Core Facility at Newcastle University

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My job involves data analysis of single cell experiments. It involves  biology, maths and computer programming but most importantly making nice looking figures for publication at the end of the analysis!

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I am looking for ways to increase my own confidence and how to encourage people that I am working with so they feel confident and happy in their job.

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That time I shaved my hair off for charity. 

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Senior technical Instructor in Art and Design
University of the West of England, Bristol.

I engage with all undergrad and post grad art and design students.  Making sure they hit their learning goals and the H+S needs.
Running the workshop smoothly, but mainly focusing on teaching and learning.  Delivering content that will challenge their ideals and improve their practise.

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This one really helped me a lot to think about different behaviour within myself as well as others. Particular helpful for universities with international staff and students.
Confidence looks very different in different cultures
https://erinmeyer.com/books/the-culture-map/