Good Practice and Recommendations for Research Team Leadership

Abstract

Lessons learned from years of research-team leadership experience are enumerated and partitioned into best programmatic and people-skill practices. From a productivity standpoint, people skills are the most important element of a mission-based team leads job; whereas, for a program-based team, the leaders primary duties are to coordinate lines of communications and plan tasks in preparation for a successful product transition to advanced development. In either case, the roles and requirements of a research team lead are more extensive than understanding the science. They call for understanding and respecting the needs and talents of people, and the operation of the organization at all levels.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1035571

Entities

People

  • Mark L. Bundy

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Commerce
  • Department Of Defense
  • Doctrine
  • Engineering
  • Leadership
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Research
  • Motivation
  • Organizational Structure
  • Product Development
  • Productivity
  • Program Management
  • Psychology
  • Recognition
  • Standards
  • Training
  • Transitions

Readers

  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Systems Analysis and Design