Manage Your Team

A performance review for staff members is a familiar responsibility for any experienced lab manager, but preparing for your own ...

Starting in spring 2020, attending a virtual conference became the only way to gather with professional colleagues. With ...

As a water lab manager, team engagement is one of your top responsibilities. If your team is effectively engaged in ...

When it comes to workplace conflict, even the most well-managed teams can run into challenges. A certain disagreement or a ...

What will be the "next normal?" That's the question on nearly everyone's mind as the

While business costs like employee wages and supplies are easy to calculate, the cost of poor team collaboration can be ...

There was probably never a trickier year for managing paid time off than 2020. The usual juggling of vacations and ...

You likely have a process in place for delivering an annual performance review for each member ...

The annual Legionella Conference put on by NSF Health Sciences and the National Environmental Health Association was planned to take ...

Some degree of holiday stress is a reality for most people every year, but as the COVID-19 pandemic has stretched ...

Before the pandemic, a healthy work/life balance was important for preventing burnout. Now it's even more ...

Even in the best of times, staffing your water lab is a challenge with many moving parts. But in uncertain ...