Leadership Skills – What Does it Take to Be a Young Leader?

Course Description

Often PhD students take on leadership roles early on in their career. In this workshop you will learn about important aspects of an inspiring approach to leadership which engages you and your team members and which addresses at the same time, current management issues. Additionally we will focus on communication skills that are essential for young leaders since they work with supervisors, employees, lients, colleagues or stakeholders, to name just a few. In this context their conversational and negotiating skills are quite vital tob e able to communicate on the same level and to lead conversations into the right direction. This workshop is designed for careers inside academia.

• Typical categories of conversations at work and corresponding strategies:
• Annual employee appraisals
• Performance evaluations
• Promotion discussions
• Wage negotiations
• Conflict resolution meetings and crucial conversations
• Job interviews