14 core skills & competencies for an Open Science leader - Proud2Know
lterrat's bookmarks 2016-12-21
Summary:
"This list might be worth exploring with your Open Access and Science teams to see where your strengths lie and where further development might get you even more results.
- Influencing skills
- Being able to empower others
- Being entrepreneurial
- Creating visions and missions
- Conveying visions and missions
- Being able to source facts & figures
- Networking skills
- Communication skills
- Expressing oneself clearly and succinctly
- Listening skills
- Presentation skills (general)
- Story-telling
- Managing people
- Collaborative skills
- Balancing one’s own emotions
- Reading people / calibration
- Having empathy with others
- Being culturally sensitive
- Managing conflict
- Programme / project management
- Getting things done
- Being able to identify risks and opportunities
- Managing performance
- Technical skills (basic) related to TDM or data
- Managing finances, incl. funding
- Understanding and addressing sustainability
- Knowledge of the workings of the scholarly workflow, e.g. Open Access, Open Data, Open software, knowledge of various publishing choices (from working papers, e-notebooks to article or books), funding models, and platforms in ideally a range of disciplines; licensing and collection management; quality management and mechanisms such as (open) peer review; IPR, CC and licensing; the role of scholarly communication in academic integrity; and knowledge of research evaluation systems. Lastly, knowledge of innovative initiatives that challenge current practices"