Hello and welcome. I'm Anne Libby, your course director. I'm glad you've joined us for this module on management. In the management modules, my colleagues and I will cover important practices when managing people who work for you, whether they're paid employees or earning credit, such as students. You'll also gain practical management tips from some of my very favorite research leaders, both early career and extremely experienced senior scientific leaders. I strongly recommend that after each lecture you watch the interviews for valuable information and personal experiences and reflections. Management refers to getting people to perform to agreed upon standards. Management is also one of the biggest traps for early career researchers. It's common to think of times when you work with other people, people who work with and for you. In a critical setting such as a hospital, there are techs and secretaries and nurses and allied providers, rotating teams of people all contributing to the care of patients. Many physicians think to themselves, "Well, gosh, I run a team all the time clinically. I know how to manage, I don't have any problem supervising." But there's a critical difference in interacting with a ready-made team versus you hiring or managing a person who is working on your research. For your research team, you have to find this person, hire them, manage, and supervise them in order for them to perform. When you walk onto an existing clinical team, that work is actually already done for you, running in the background. You might give input into that process, but truly that process is independent of you. For those of you who have had some success managing others, that's great. Let's build on that success and unpack what specifically might have worked well so you can use it in the future. This module focuses on starting a research team. We will discuss how to decide on the right person to work on your team, for example, should you hire an employee, a student, or a trainee? We will describe how to search for and hire that person, both when they're the first and only employee and also when you're growing your team and have an existing group to consider. We will discuss on boarding and starting out well with new employees and how to manage your projects, your team, and most importantly, yourself. I encourage you to continue on to the next module on growing and maintaining your team. We'll get you started on a path to success. I assure you the better you get at management, the better your life will be as a principal investigator. So let's begin.