Managing the team

This branch covers day-to-day management of a writing team, divided into setting expectations for individual work and leading the team as a whole. It leaves hiring to building the team, training and careers to developing the team, the writer’s move into management to career moves, project leadership without line authority to project management, mentoring to mentoring, and freelance subcontracting to business operations.

• Setting expectations as a manager — preparing requests, agreeing commitments, accountability, follow-up and self-review
• Leading a team as its manager — leadership quality, support and capacity, change, regional community and scientific priorities