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Job Aid: Aligning Your Lab Team:
Leveraging Personnel Strengths to Support Your Lab

The clinical laboratory attracts individuals who are organized, detail-oriented, enjoy challenges, and are committed to contributing to patient care through timely and accurate testing. Despite facing staffing shortages, the laboratory workforce seeks to enhance its resilience and diversity.

This job aid is designed to offer clinical laboratory leaders ideas on supporting tasks that may align with their team members’ character traits, preferences, or personal interests. While not comprehensive, it aims to provide general guidance to better match the supportive tasks in your laboratory with the personal interests and inclinations of your team.

Aligning with Your Lab Team Quiz

This quick, interactive logic-based quiz, designed both for use by laboratory leaders and laboratory team members, considers self-identified skills and preferences and shares suggestions on supporting laboratory tasks that may be of interest to you. These tasks span both technical laboratory tasks and laboratory visibility activities and takes into consideration the amount of time that the survey-taker has available.

This quiz would be a great resource to share with laboratory leadership, motivated lab team members, and those interested in continuing to learn and grow their role in the clinical laboratory.