What this course equips you to do better:


  • See how your lab actually operatesโ€”so youโ€™re no longer making leadership decisions in the dark or compensating for invisible system gaps.


  • Build collaboration through structure, not personality by clarifying ownership, improving handoffs, surfacing tension early, and designing workflows that hold up under pressure.


  • Strengthen your contributionโ€”whether you lead the lab or work within it by understanding how structure, communication, and workload shape whatโ€™s possible.


Rather than generic teamwork advice, this course helps you diagnose and adjust the systems that determine progress, so both people and science can move forward more predictably.

Managing a Science Lab Well & Making a Difference


Breakthrough science depends on more than talent or effortโ€”it depends on how work is structured, coordinated, and sustained under pressure.

In research labs and clinical teams, progress often slows not because people lack motivation or intelligence, but because ownership is unclear, decisions drift, handoffs break, and learning happens too late. Over time, these structural gaps show up as stalled projects, quiet burnout, and over-reliance on a few key individuals.

When collaboration systems fail, the cost is real: delayed results, lost momentum, and teams that work harder without moving faster.

The Science Lab Accelerator is designed to address these challenges at the system level. Rather than focusing on personalities or generic โ€œteamwork,โ€ it helps you identify and adjust the lab structures that shape execution every dayโ€”so work moves forward with greater clarity, resilience, and shared ownership.

This course equips you to run small, practical pilots inside real lab workโ€”reducing friction, improving flow, and strengthening the conditions that allow both people and science to thrive.

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Enhanced Communication


Collaborative Capacity




Project Management



Example Curriculum

  Orientation: Seeing Your Lab as a System
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  Lab System 1: Foundations of Team Structure
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  Lab System 2: Cross-Disciplinary Coordination
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  Lab System 3: Culture, Humility, and Curiosity
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  Lab System 4: Communication and Expectations
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  Lab System 5: Conflict and Alignment Under Pressure
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  Lab System 6: Time, Workload, and Throughput
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  Lab System 7: Developing People in the Flow of Work
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  Lab System 8: Meaning, Morale, and Sustainability
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  Integration: Planning the Next Phase of Your Lab
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Experiential Self-Guided Team Training

๐Ÿ“š + ๐Ÿง‘๐Ÿฝโ€๐Ÿ’ป: Your team will gain access to readings, lectures, and live sessions to help build and improve team dynamics.

๐Ÿงถ + ๐Ÿšฉ: Hands-on learning activities will also help boost team morale and provide opportunities to practice new behaviors that foster fast growth and increase collaborative capacity.