Developing diversified and talented teams
Recognising and rewarding academic staff not only on their individual performance, but also on the contribution they make from their own expertise and competences to the collective, team, department, consortium, institute, or organisation they are part of. That is what we aim for.
There are different definitions of Team science and team collaboration. In any case, it is about using balanced teams to avoid having to be a ‘jack of all trades’ as individuals. Only with a good composition of talents in research, teaching, patient care, specialist training, leadership and impact can we offer the highest quality in each of those areas. And so we help each other in reducing the workload
Teamwork is essential for Recognition & Rewards to succeed. Indeed, if there is a diversification in an individual’s range of tasks, it also means that teams need to discuss who will take up other tasks. This raises questions such as: How do you form a team consisting of different talents and what talents do you need? How do you recognise and reward all those talents equally? How do you work together in this? And how do you lead this?
Recognition and rewarding are often expressed by promoting in today’s academia, but success cannot involve promoting the whole team. Leadership is a profession, for which some are more talented than others. So it is important to develop ways of recognition and rewarding that are not about promotion alone, but also about development and job satisfaction within a position. And if it does involve promotion to team leader, how do we assess someone’s leadership qualities?
During the Recognition & Rewards Festival, we will zoom in on this. We will discuss concrete examples and opportunities. We will look at a team-oriented mindset and concrete tools to put Recognition & Rewards into practice within teams. We also look at what role leadership plays in this. And what this means for talent selection, assessment and employee development.
During the plenary programme and in the in-depth workshops, we provide room for different perspectives, with the aim of taking a step forward together. In order to bring teams and individual talents together step by step.
For this edition of the Recognition & Rewards Festival, we want to specifically invite various groups. The first of these are early career academics for whom Recognition & Rewards will have the greatest impact on their own careers. The second group are committee members involved in promotion and appointments (such as from researcher to Assistant Professor to Associate Professor and Associate Professor to Full Professor). As a third group, we like to invite academics in leadership position. Think of heads of a department, institute or research group. In addition, we also like to invite the support staff of these target groups, for example secretaries of appointment advisory committees and HR advisors, but also, for example, grant advisors who advise early career academics or secretaries of graduate schools who are involved in PhD policy.