Cyber Cafe: Education and Training Case Study…..but I′ve never taught before…..what do I do? Just for a few minutes lets pretend that you are the manager of a laboratory at a large university based hospital in an academic health center. You have received complaints from your employees that ″Mary″ is not a team player. You have observed that Mary prefers to work alone and is not receptive to training student interns. At times, she can be abrasive toward others;however, she is extremely knowledgeable and her work is meticulous and accurate. She is never late and has never used sick time in her five year tenure with your department. Your counseling meeting with Mary reveals that she is intimidated by the prospect of training student interns because she has no background or experience in providing instruction. What′s a manager to do…… How would you approach facilitating Mary′s participation in the clinical training of interns? How would Mary develop specific learning objectives for the student interns? What would Mary need to do to ensure that the learning outcomes were met? Share your thoughts! Part2: Cyber Cafe: Is it Possible? So you are all stating some excellent traits of leaders, is it possible for one person to exhibit all those ideal characteristics? How do our expectations of leaders effect leadership outcomes in the lab?
