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You've mastered the language of your domain. You can discuss experimental design, assay development, regulatory requirements, or clinical trial protocols with precision and clarity. But now that you're leading a team, you're discovering that technical expertise alone doesn't make you an effective communicator. In fact, some of the communication habits that served you well as a bench scientist or research contributor are actively undermining your leadership. Here are the five

If you've spent your career or PhD optimizing experiments, debugging code, or refining research protocols, you already know that good feedback loops are essential to progress. But when it comes to giving feedback to your team members, many technical leaders struggle. The skills that made you an exceptional scientist or engineer - precision, objectivity, problem-solving - can actually work against you if applied incorrectly to interpersonal interactions. The good news? You can

You spent years honing your craft. Whether you're a scientist, a healthcare professional, an engineer, or a developer, you built your career on precision, data, and deep subject matter expertise. You became the person everyone turned to when the problem was complex and the stakes were high. Then, you got promoted. Now, you're a manager or team lead, and you are discovering a universal truth: The skills that got you here are not the same skills that will keep you going. Transi