How To Successfully Manage a Core Utilizing the LeadMe Leadership Principles

Yvette VillicanaFinance Manager, Research Resource Program

University of California, San Franciscoyvette.villicana@ucsf.edu

About Me:

– New position as Finance Manager for centralized cores

– Unfamiliar with core management– New LeadMe Mentee 2013-2014– Great opportunity for me to practice the principles

I learned in the LeadMe Program on a daily basis in my new position

Presentation Objectives

At the end of this presentation, you will be able to:– learn five key LeadMe Leadership principles– see how I implemented the five principles into

my work

What is a core?aka: shared facility, shared resource, or scientific recharge-Scientific group that offers specialized services which are paid for by researchers-cores exists because there is a need for the core’s expertise or instrumentation-like a mini-business

TIPS for How To Successfully Manage a Core Utilizing the LeadMe Leadership Principles

1. Tour the core. Get to know your facility and the entire team.

LeadME Principle: Model the Way.

2. Communicate regularly.Set the tone for engagement early on, establish recurring monthly or quarterly meetings, remind each other about roles and responsibilities and expectations.LeadME Principle: Inspire a Shared Vision.

3. Monitor your monthly revenue versus expenses. Be proactive and revise your service rates if necessary, develop simple rate calculations, create templates as you go.

LeadME Principle: Challenge the Process

4. Shares resources with your team and with colleagues. Share files via Dropbox, Google doc, shared drive. Share development and learning opportunities with each other.

LeadMe Principle: Enable Others to Act

5. Develop strong working relationships across your organization. UCSF: RRP, Budget Office, Sponsored Research Office, Accounting, Conflict of Interest, Cancer Center, CTSI (initiate brown bag meeting, recurring focus group meeting).LeadMe Principle: Encourage the Heart

5 Key Elements To Successfully Manage A Core1. Tour the core.2. Communicate regularly.3. Monitor your monthly revenue versus expenses.4. Shares files with your team and with colleagues.5. Develop strong working relationships across your

organization.

SummaryWhy should I be interested in cores?-Might be an emerging area as a result of limited research funding, managing a core is like managing a small businessWhy should I apply for the LeadMe Program?-Great opportunity to focus on your professional development while working with motivated mentors and mentees in a safe, supportive environmentWhat did I learn from this experience?Leadership is non-stop, ongoing and ever evolving.What is my future commitment to NCURA?Volunteer to become a MINT 2015-2016

THANK YOUs:-My mentor Heather Kubinec-LeadMe Coordinator Derick Jones-NCURA

Thoughts about cores or LeadMe?Let’s talk!

Email: yvette.villicana@ucsf.edu

LeadMe: http://www.ogrd.wsu.edu/r6ncura/leadme.aspx