Chemical Analysis Support: Modern Laboratory Management
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Chemical Analysis Support: Modern Laboratory Management Course
Introduction:
Effective chemical laboratory management is becoming a crucial component of any competent, successful business that combines production, research and development, quality assurance/control, and product/service delivery to clients or consumers. To guarantee that tests, findings, and information flow smoothly, a considerable degree of cooperation and coordination between scientists, technicians, and everyone else working in the lab and outside are needed.
Course Objectives:
How you'll benefit from this Course
- Get solutions to your management problems from a leading authority.
- Be able to define and focus on the lab mission.
- Know how to organize to meet the requirements of a mission.
- Improve your abilities to listen and communicate.
- Understand how to motivate staff and build teams.
- Understand the manager's job
Who Should Attend?
New analytical laboratory managers, experienced managers with new responsibility for the analytical functions, and present managers, supervisors, and project leaders.
Course Outlines:
Approach to Leading the Workshop.
- Analytical Measurement -- Science and technology.
- Activities of Practicing Analytical Professionals.
- Analytical Support Enterprise -- objective and purpose; alignment with the business; customer/client; products of the lab.
- Analytical Lab Organization -- the specific mission of lab; organization by product line, function, technique; self-service/open access/community lab.
- Staffing the Laboratory -- selection process; indicators for specific qualities; decision-making pitfalls.
- Communications -- ways we communicate; listening for managers; effective staff meetings; electronic communication; expectations.
- Buying Costly Instruments -- the total cost of ownership; important dates for purchase; rental, leasing, outside labs.
- Managing and Leadership -- motivation; situational leadership; one-style managers; common pitfalls of managers.
- Managing/Operating the Lab -- manager’s time; subsystems of the analytical lab; workflow; customer interface; quality management standards; good automated lab practices (GALP); analytical skills roster.
- Lab Performance Evaluation - sample turnaround time; customer perception/satisfaction; staff competence/ improvement.
- Future Trends -- forces driving change; managing rapid change.