Leadership
Hardly anyone is appointed to a professorship or a group leadership because they have led before. Yet from the first day, teams need coordinating, doctoral researchers need supervision, and projects need steering – on top of teaching and research.
This workshop conveys the core fundamentals of effective leadership in an academic context and creates space to reflect on your own leadership style. From classic and modern leadership approaches through staff and budget planning to supervising doctoral researchers, the topics cover the full spectrum of academic leadership tasks. Anyone who wants to go deeper into supervision will find a dedicated workshop on that topic.
A hands-on format of input, group exercises, and transfer tasks ensures that individual challenges are picked up and worked through in a solution-oriented way.
Content
The training design combines short input sessions, group work, and self-reflection, so that individual leadership questions are addressed concretely – from team leadership and communication through staff and budget planning to supervising doctoral researchers and good research practice.
- Getting started and understanding your role: what is different about a professorship or research group, balancing teaching, research, and leadership
- Leadership tasks and tools: team leadership, communication, delegation, feedback, goal agreements
- Effectiveness and efficiency: strategies for time and resource management
- Staff and budget planning: structures, legal basics, calculating resources
- Leadership styles: classic approaches, agile models, diversity orientation, shared leadership
- Supervising doctoral researchers: understanding your role, guidelines for agreements, supportive supervision
- Good research practice: the DFG Code of Conduct, authorship, data management, handling misconduct
- Individual transfer: developing personal action plans
Nach dem Workshop können die Teilnehmenden …
- Sharpen your own understanding of your role as a leader in academia
- Apply leadership tools such as delegation, feedback, and goal agreements in a targeted way
- Approach staff and budget planning in your own area of responsibility with confidence
- Support doctoral researchers with role clarity and in a way that helps them develop
- Develop a personal action plan for your own leadership practice
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- Tailored: Every format is customized to your context – from methodology to scheduling
- Practical: Grounded in academia, field-tested, and immediately applicable in everyday research
- Efficient: Clear structures and methods deliver fast results
- Sustainable: Materials and transfer tasks secure the learning effect long-term
- Motivating: Interactive formats boost engagement and team spirit