DivE-Q Event: Workshop “Taking the Lead for Postdocs”

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In addition to supervising students and technical staff group, project leaders in their postdoc period often start to supervise PhD students. In order to master the leadership role while keeping track of their creative research projects, it is helpful to get familiar with basic tasks and tools of management and leadership in a scientific surrounding. The online workshop supports the participants to handle responsibilities by reflecting on their own experience of leadership and broaden their knowledge of useful management and leadership tools.

Contents in brief

  • Leadership and management in a scientific surrounding
  • Leadership tools and activities
  • Organising the supervision of PhD candidates
  • Common conflicts arising during supervision
  • Communication: difficult conversations
  • Conditions for a motivational environment
  • Exchange of good practice among the participants

 

Further information

Language: English
Target group: Postdocs, group and project leaders
Online workshop, 2 sessions
Thursday, 26th September 2024, 9.00 am – 1.00 pm
Friday, 27th September 2024, 9.00 am – 1.00 pm

Registration open until … via trr306-office@fau.de

 

Trainer

Matthias Merkelbach, professional coach certified by the Coaching Academy Stuttgart, since 2009 trainer and seminar leader for Impulsplus on topics of career planning, job application, leadership, team building and communication, among others at FZ Jülich, RWTH Aachen, ETH Zürich, OvGU Magdeburg, KIT Karlsruhe, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, etc. pp Since 2002, author of textbooks for Cornelsen Verlag, Berlin, (e.g. Fokus Deutsch: Erfolgreich in Alltag und Beruf / C1, 2019) and editor of a textbook for Technical English (2005). Until 2011, director of studies at the ISD GmbH – Sprachen & Kommunikation, Stuttgart, a continuing education institute for internationally active companies. Lectured regularly at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Expolingua, Berlin, the conference Sprachen & Beruf, Düsseldorf, etc. Master’s degree in Philosophy and German Literature at the Free University, Berlin. Lecturer in German language and literature as well as trainer for German as a second language and German for professionals, among others at the Korean National University of Education in Chongju, South Korea, and for various institutes in Berlin.

More information can be found here: https://www.impulsplus.com