Leadership development is an important topic for anyone in any stage of their scientific career. It's necessary to develop leadership and management skills for productivity and project organization. Leadership creates vision for the future and gets a group aligned to that vision.

This year, I am lucky to be participating in the @SfNtweets Leadership Development Program. Monthly distance learning sessions with my 15 fellow participants cover self awareness, inclusion, communication, teamwork, advocacy, and more. #Jefftakeover

I have learned so much about how to be an effective leader from small projects to strategic planning of a lab budget. I encourage any neuroscience students to apply for this program through @SfNtweets and others to seek out leadership training. #JeffTakeover #Neuroleaders

As future PIs, industry leaders, teachers, and science communicators we can use these skills to become effective initiators of change in our respective fields. #JeffTakeover

In addition, this program has opened me up to #networking opportunities with peers and faculty I would have never met otherwise such as @maddiehray, @ohambiguity, and @AlyciaPhD.

#scicomm, leadership development, and networking are all skills you can work on from the comfort of your couch/bed/desk in any form of media (podcasts, LinkedIn, #AcademicTwitter) so if your WFH routine could use a shakeup maybe work on your non-research science skills!

For getting to the end of this thread you get a picture of my sweet pug Benny. #JeffTakeover