Everything you don´t learn in the lab

Women in leadership

Topic area
(Self-) management

Format
In-house workshop

Workload
2 workshop days

Trainer
Lisa Steinhauser

Target group
PhD students, Postdocs and junior group leaders

Description

Being a leader has its own challenges. It takes good communication skills, the ability to give and receive feedback, some courage and trust in the own strengths as well as empathy and motivation. All these characteristics can be learned and developed. This workshop is tailor-made for female academics who want to learn self-management and team-leading. In addition to general leadership topics, we will discuss gender-specific aspects.

In this course, you´ll learn:

Self-management

  • Awareness of professional and personal strengths
  • Development of own leadership style
  • Resilience
  • Self-organisation at work

 

Leadership and your team

  • Get to know the personalities of your team members
  • Personnel selection and team composition
  • Tasks and decision-making as a leader

Conflicts and feedback

  • Critical situations and arguments
  • Dealing with difficult behavior
  • Communicating up and down

 

Career planning

  • Leadership as a decision
  • Building a professional network
  • Previously colleague, now group leader
  • Competitive situations

 

Equal rights

  • Legal situation
  • Women’s quota and promotion programmes
  • Bypass systematic errors
  • Pay gap

 

Femininity as strength

  • Emphasise your unique personality
  • See through hidden power games
  • Search for strategic support
  • To be more confident

 

Interested to read a humorous short story about the challenges of breaking into the ‘men´s world as a woman? You might like 220 Shades of Grey.

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