Fit for Leadership?!

Ziele

• Get to know relevant leadership models and their impact on team collaboration
• Understand key competences such as leadership attitude and self-leadership
• Reflect on useful elements of leadership communication and building trust
• The course may help to find out whether a career in leadership is what you wish to pursue

Kursinhalte

Are you thinking about pursuing a leadership role? Did you know that your leadership style and the quality of team communication have a huge impact on motivation and performance? That team dynamics can either become an obstacle or lead to a success story. Performance and results depend on the quality of teamwork, on established communication and cooperation structures and on effective task management. And last but not least on your leadership qualities and ability to integrate and get every team member aboard.
In this workshop you will reflect on your own role, attitude and strengths and learn how to implement effective tools right from the beginning in order to save you from common pitfalls. The workshop provides you with relevant leadership models and instruments to be considered. You will get to know basic aspects of team dynamics and useful meeting structures, also for hybrid teams.

Task management activities will be complimented by useful tools for leading yourself. Furthermore, we will discuss elements of motivating leadership and how to build trust and encourage teams towards the realization of goals.
These new-found leadership skills will help you motivate and inspire a team, leverage teamwork i.e., initiate and maintain a positive team spirit and successful collaboration.

Discussion points:
▪ Leadership models (transformational vs. transactional, situational and collaborative leadership)
▪ High performance teams
▪ Gains and losses coming with a leadership position
▪ Lead yourself: plan and prioritize
▪ Motivate yourself and others, psychological safety
▪ Leadership attitude, growth mindset and leadership communication
▪ Deal with emotions
▪ Unify diverse teams, integrate different personalities and interests
▪ Build trust
▪ Start a leadership position: no-gos and blunders
▪ Repertoire of self-reflection questions

Form

Trainer input, individual self-reflection exercises, interactive, experience-oriented learning, group exercises, case studies, plenum discussions, video clips, feedback

Adressatinnen und Adressaten

All Doctoral Candidates & Postdocs

Informationen zu den Dozierenden

Monika studied Theology before going on to gain an MA in Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Psycholinguistics and Intercultural Communication as well as additional qualifications in the fields of Commercial Mediation, Collaborative Practice, the Graves Values System and Systemic Supervision and Consulting. She is also a certified trainer and speech therapist.

Before founding her own company Creative Dialogue she managed an adult education institution in the medical-therapeutic sector and spent 15 years as an editor for the Springer publishing house in Heidelberg. She has gained international experience in Luxembourg, Belgium, France, the UK, Switzerland, Bolivia, the USA, Israel and Palestine.

As a consultant, coach, trainer, facilitator and mediator, Monika empowers individuals, (international) teams and organizations engaged in change processes to develop their values, to unlock their full potential, to constructively resolve conflict, to manage changes creatively and productively and, ultimately, to achieve their goals. She also lectures at a number of universities both in Germany and abroad. She lives in Munich.

Leistungsspektrum / Workload

Total of 30h (preparation 9h, course attendance 16h, homework/follow-up work 5h)

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.