Self-Management and Career Success

Aims

• Become your own best friend and win others --> your education wins you a great job, your emotional intelligence will help you keep it.
• Learn and apply techniques to reduce your personal stress factors
• Achieve more success and effectiveness in your private and professional life
• Plan and design your career effectively
• Master the success factors for winning in an interview

Target Group:

• Docs and Post-Docs ready to source a job outside university
• Docs and Post-Docs open for self-development beyond expertise and operational skills
• Docs and Post-Docs looking for input into careers outside university and needing a convincing CV and become familiar with non-academic recruitment processes
• Docs and Post-Docs being curious about self-enhancement techniques to lead a more self-determined and satisfying life.

Content

1. Effective self-management and reducing stress
2. Reduce frustration and stress, thereby increasing your personal quality of life
3. Recognize the saboteurs of self-value and change them to self-value enhancers
4. Identify your values and needs
5. Bring more positivity into your life
6. From vision to purpose to reality: consciously create your future
7. Win people for joint goals and influence them effectively
8. Work on the success factors for change
9. Create an up-to-date attractive CV
10. Elements for conducting effective interviews
11. How to win in an assessment centre
12. Understand the work of headhunters and interacting with them professionally à do’s and dont’s

Methods

• Seminar with actual inputs from theory and practice
• Individual reflection and group work
• Discussion and practical exercises

Target Group

All Doctoral Candidates & Postdocs

About the Trainer

Christina Kuenzle

Christina has been working as an international Executive and Business Coach for over 20 years. Her two companies are Choice and “Urban Gurus”. She has specialized in career and change management, assisting in transitions and transformations, founding and building enterprises, optimizing self-management (including stress and burn-out prevention), communication and teambuilding, including conflict management and leadership. Previous to her time as an entrepreneur she has been an executive committee member of Sulzer and president of an orchestra for contemporary music (CNZ). Christina holds a B.A. in Economics, an MBA from INSEAD and an M.S. from HEC. Extracurricular activities include writing, skiing and piano playing.

Workload

Course attendance: 2 x 8h
Evening work (optional): 4 h
Optional work after workshop: up to 10 h

Feature

Once registration is open, applications will be collected for 24 hours and course places allocated by lot. All registrations received after the initial 24h period will be put on a waiting list and assigned on a first come, first served basis.

Course places/places on the waiting list will be confirmed by e-mail. Course registrations can only be canceled before the registration period ends (send an e-mail to grace@unibas.ch). Full course attendance is mandatory. Participants who fail to attend a course without prior notification or withdraw after the registration deadline are subject to a fee of CHF 30. In addition, participants who cancel their course registration at a later point in time, are absent without an excuse or do not attend the entire course will, for reasons of fairness, not be considered for course registration in the following semester and will be removed from other courses offered in the same semester. Please find the detailed regulations on the Transferable Skills Homepage.