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Astromanager LLC can help your organization initiate, execute, and conclude more successful projects and engage. train, and develop your staff. Astromanager’s Scot Kleinman has developed his astronomy, organizational, project management, and general business productivity skills through decades of work within some of astronomy’s largest and most influential international projects and organizations. He has developed various training and mentoring programs to help your team succeed.

Scot has a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Texas, a Masters of Business Administration from the Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawaii, a certificate in International Management from the Pacific Asian Management Institute, and multiple certifications in project and portfolio management. He has 30+ years of experience leading and managing a variety of cutting edge astronomy projects including ground-based prototyping for the Kepler space mission, the Whole Earth Telescope, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and the instrumentation programs at both the Japanese national Subaru Observatory and the international Gemini Observatory. This background provides Scot with a broad and deep set of experiences that allows him to help your organization in tasks involving strategy, organizational culture, project initiation and management, systems engineering, software development and more.

Here are some of the areas in which Scot and Astromanager LLC can help your organization.

Project Initiation

Do you have a new initiative you need someone to lead and organize while you’re putting it together or seeking funding? Astromanager LLC can support these efforts in all areas from proposal writing to forming, leading, and joining the project team.

Management and Leadership Role Filling

Do you have a leadership or management role you need temporarily filled while you search for a full time replacement or await a new staff member’s start date? Do you have a project in need of a particular skill you don’t have in house? Astromanager LLC can work with you and any incoming role holder to fill out your team. keep things going, or initiate a new direction, allowing you to keep the rest of your staff focused on their otherwise planned work.

Technical Writing

Need someone to help write, edit, or review your scientific and technical documents? Astromanager LLC’s Scot Kleinman’s scientific background and experience in operations, instrumentation, and management, combined with his love of good writing means he can independently create, edit, and review your scientific and technical documents. He can help your documents capture your audience’s attention, while keeping the content scientifically and technically accurate.

Training and Mentoring

Do you have a team or individual needing support and guidance to take their performance to the next level? Astromanager LLC has developed a series of short courses designed to control workflow and increase workplace efficiency. These classes focus on email and task management, task prioritization, effective meetings, and successful delegation. The classes explore additional real-life work hurdles like why don’t we always do the right thing even when we know what it is and when is the relentless focus on efficiency actually harming work productivity?

Additionally, we have a variety of content on management, leadership, and teamwork skills and can offer versions of these courses tailored to your staff and needs to help your team work to their highest potential.

Astromanager LLC provides experience-based mentoring to individuals and teams at different levels within your organization. We begin by helping staff understand themselves and each other so they can better understand their reactions to common workplace situations and become better able to purposefully choose their responses. We present leadership as a personal commitment and something that can occur within all levels of an organization or team. We help individuals overcome their personal hurdles and work with teams to better establish norms, healthy working relationships, and an environment that helps people reach their potential.

Recruitment

Do you tend to hire based on whatever qualities and skills the previous person had or lacked? Do you find it difficult to ensure you found the right person for the job? We have developed a proven recruitment method that helps hiring managers identify and interview for the specific skills and traits needed for the role at hand, including often overlooked areas as ethical behaviors and problem solving approaches. Astromanager LLC can support a hiring manager or lead the process for your team.

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