Table B4.
Psychological skills panel prioritized learning topics for biomedical I&E (ranked by entrepreneur mean importance)
| Topic presented to panelists | Entrepreneur | Intrapreneur | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean importance (5-point scale) |
N rating high (4) or essential (5) |
Mean importance (5-point scale) |
N rating high (4) or essential (5) |
|
| Consensus | ||||
| Identifying your strengths and capabilities, and making the most of them | 4.86 | 7/7 | 4.71 | 7/7 |
| How to deal with failure or the threat of failure? | 4.71 | 7/7 | 4.57 | 7/7 |
| Methods for measuring progress to inform future decisions, such as “post-mortems” or agile methodologies | 4.43 | 6/7 | 4.43 | 6/7 |
| Self-management skills: how to take responsibility for your own well-being and behavior; this includes time-management, organization, self-motivation, self-care, and accountability? | 4.43 | 6/7 | 4.14 | 6/7 |
| Networking skills: How to establish, maintain, and productively use professional relationships? | 4.29 | 5/7 | 4.43 | 6/7 |
| Using goal-setting as a motivational strategy | 4.29 | 5/7 | 4.29 | 5/7 |
| Grit: How to persevere toward goals when it’s tough, and foster a pursuit of passions despite setbacks? | 4.29 | 5/7 | 4.14 | 5/7 |
| Knowledge of cognitive biases, such as sunk costs (the unwillingness to leave a project that has failed because one feels that they have put too much effort in it to walk away) | 4.29 | 5/7 | 4 | 5/7 |
| Development of interpersonal and team trust to promote candid conversations | 4.14 | 6/7 | 4.29 | 6/7 |
| Smart experimentation skills: How to test hypotheses about the environment or about the viability of products or services? | 4.14 | 4/7 | 4 | 4/7 |
| How to generate ideas about what could go wrong before a project begins, such as using a “pre-mortem”? | 4 | 6/7 | 4.14 | 6/7 |
| How to coach or mentor others? | 4 | 5/7 | 4 | 5/7 |
| Self-efficacy: belief in your ability to achieve a goal | 4 | 5/7 | 3.86 | 5/7 |
| Person-environment (PE) fit: the idea that matching characteristics, values, and needs between people and their workplaces leads to positive outcomes | 4 | 4/7 | 3.57 | 3/7 |
| How to give and receive feedback effectively? | 3.86 | 4/7 | 4.29 | 5/7 |
| Emotional intelligence: How to identify and manage your own emotions as well as others? | 3.71 | 5/7 | 4 | 5/7 |
| Sensemaking within teams: How to work with a group to make sense of an unexpected event and decide upon a course of action? | 3.71 | 4/7 | 4.14 | 5/7 |
| No consensus | ||||
| Entity (intelligence is unchangeable) vs incremental (intelligence can be increased through effort) theory: the idea that a growth mindset facilitates continued effort after failure rather than helpless responses | 3.86 | 5/7 | 3.86 | 5/7 |
| The concept of promotion (pursuing gains) vs prevention (avoiding losses) mindsets when pursuing a goal | 3.86 | 5/7 | 3.71 | 4/7 |
| Vicarious learning: using others’ stories to learn in the absence of firsthand experience | 3.71 | 4/7 | 3.71 | 4/7 |
| Knowledge of implicit biases: unconscious beliefs about different social groups | 3.43 | 4/7 | 3.43 | 4/7 |
| Fundamentals of personality theory: such as big five traits (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism), individual information processing differences, Myers-Briggs | 3.14 | 3/7 | 2.86 | 2/7 |