Intuitive Decision Making ONLINE

Ziele

Intuitively, you probably know more about yourself and others than you are aware of. Being aware of your intuitions is likely to help you in taking good private and professional decisions. Taking good decisions will save you energy, get you where you want to be and boost your motivation. During your work at the university, you may need to make difficult life choices, decide for a career path or for modes of collegial interaction. Do you sometimes struggle with taking decisions or with finding the right mode of interaction? Would you like to change something, but you do not know how? Then this course is for you.

This online course aims to
• strengthen your intuition about yourself and others (Day 1 and 2)
• encourage you to take a step back and explore yourself: your personality, values, drivers, goals (Day 1)
• provide you with tools to help you with good decision-making (Day 2)

Kursinhalte

DAY 1

1) Introduction: We test in how far we can get to know each other by using our intuition. We make use of the Zurich Resource Model (ZRM) of Storch (2004) and reflect on ‘the first impression’ by using the Johari Window-model (Luft and Ingham, 1961) (1/4 day)

2) Exploring personal qualities through story telling in teams (Mejer &Meijaard) (1/4)

3) Participants are guided to explore themselves by various means (2/4 day):
a. Personality: OCEAN model (Barrick & Mount, 1991)
b. Values/Goals: the ‘three worlds’- model (Schmid, 2006)
c. Drivers (Kahler, 1975 )

DAY 2

1) Looking at what we have learnt about ourselves on day 1, we develop a ‘motto’ or an image that helps us to carry our personal message of strength. The ZRM will serve as a supporting tool. (1/4 day)

2) We will use original African Tribal Art pieces to reflect on ‘identity’ and ‘reality constructs’ based on systems theory (observation, theory and discussion) (1/4)

3) We then learn about and apply several simple tools for understanding ourselves and others better including the ‘NLP-timeline’, the ‘Affect Balance’ and ‘microtheses’ (Berg and de Jong, 2013).

Optional Individual Coaching Session

Consecutive, individual (1:1) coaching session of 60 minutes, as an opportunity to discuss one personal challenge. By the time of the coaching session, participants are equipped with a high self-awareness, a ‘motto’ and tools for self-reflection, so the coaching session is expected to be highly effective in leading to a desired change.

Form

The methods mentioned in the course contents are part of a solution-focused and systemic coaching approach. This course welcomes diversity and fosters self-empowerment and -respect.

Adressatinnen und Adressaten

All Doctoral Candidates & Postdocs

Informationen zu den Dozierenden

Dr. Mirja Michalscheck (Wageningen University & Research/ Lemon Tree Coaching)
Mirja is a certified systemic coach and change manager (INeKO). For her research, she explored decision-making dynamics in smallholder farming systems in Africa. Mirja now works as a Postdoc on Innovation scaling for the International Water Management Institute in Accra, Ghana. Mirja is fascinated by African Art, characterized by a multitude of tribal identities. An excursion into African Art and her work in Ghana will inspire the process of strengthening the participants’ own identities and interactionas.

Leistungsspektrum / Workload

Total of 19h

The course will span over two full working days (16 hours). Preparatory exercises will be provided via email and take about 1 hour. The optional coaching session will take another 1 hour preparation and 1 hour for the session itself, adding up to 19 hours of workload.

Besonderheiten

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.