Leadership Skills for Postdocs

Leadership has undergone changes – in parallel with changes to our work environments. Flatter hierarchies, project work in a matrix structure and more rapid changes of assignments, locations and colleagues are but some of the new challenges we all face. Interpersonal skills become ever more important when leading a team or a project: for motivation, conflict resolution or work delegation.

Seminar contents:

 Hire for quality!

• How to get the best team and not just clones of yourself
• Overcoming biases in staff selection and other work processes

 Conflict management

• Prevent conflicts by your lab set-up: communication and practicalities
• Deescalate and resolve conflicts by mediation and through fair negotiations
• Escalate professionally if necessary

 Leadership styles

• Can we find a leadership style that fits all types and is this even desirable?
• Who to delegate to in your diverse team and how?
• Staff development

Feedback and other one-on-ones

• Giving and recieving critical feedback
• Feedback in international context: how (in-)direct can I be?

The workshop will take place using zoom for live interactions and the trainer´s learning platform for self-paced learning between the webinars. The language of this workshop is English.

• Time: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 –Thu, 18 Jan 2024, each day 9.00–11.30 a.m
• Location: Online (via Zoom)
• Target group: Postdocs of all research fields of the UA Ruhr universities (max. 12 participants)
• Trainer: Dr. Philipp Gramlich
• Registration deadline: 18 December 2023
• Contact for organizational questions: graduiertenzentrumtu-dortmundde

Further information and registration

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