Power Games and Micropolitical Competence ONLINE

Ziele

The two-module workshop provides you with knowledge to systematically grasp manifestations of the everyday uses of power in organizations and the ‘games’ played in your own environment. An opportunity is given to reflect on your own power resources, to identify strategies for successful ‚navigation‘, and to gain perspective on how to further enhance your personal micropolitical competence following the workshop – whether in academia or elsewhere.

Kursinhalte

• science system and organization
• micropolitics & power
• power games, power resources, abuse of power
• exemplary 'arenas' in academia
• roles / game positions
• micropolitical tools & room for maneuvre

Form

The event offered is experience-based and participatory; the choice of topics is inspired by the working environment and the level of experience of the respective target group.
The following methods are used:

• brief introductions to concepts and models
• practice-oriented inputs
• individual reflections and small group work
• instructions for working on one‘s own cases or on case studies
• facilitation of plenary discussions
• instructions for a piece of ‚homework‘ between the sessions, which helps to deepen what has been learned previously
• participants‘ choice of a ‚micropolitical tool‘ to be practiced in the last session.

The video conference system ZOOM is supplemented by an interactive virtual whiteboard and GoogleDocs to access working documents, to visualize and to document the results of our cooperation.

Adressatinnen und Adressaten

Advanced Doctorial Candidates & Postdocs

Informationen zu den Dozierenden

Veronika Fuest is a certified consultant (systemic transactional analysis) and trainer with multidisciplinary academic qualifications and extensive experience in collaborative research projects at various academic and non-academic institutions. Her professional experience includes expertise in international development cooperation, academic teaching of political anthropology, various assignments in science management (project coordination, consultancy, management of ombudsman affairs, internal process moderation) and pursuing actor and institutional analyses in science organizations.

Leistungsspektrum / Workload

Total 9h (30 min preparatory work, 2 x 4h course attendence, 1h homework)

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.