Managing Scientific Projects Successfully in Diverse Teams
A workshop offered by the Bonn Graduate Center
In this workshop, you will learn about the unique features and dynamics of scientific projects, important aspects of team development, and the complexities and great potential of diverse individuals in scientific collaborative work. This workshop provides you with self-awareness, knowledge, practical skills and competences of diversity-conscious interaction and communication as well as fostering a healthy team-structure and project-development for a shared, scientific success.
In-person Workshop
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Trainer
Dr. Imke Lode
Language
English
Location
Alte Sternwarte
Poppelsdorfer Allee 47*
Target Group
Doctoral students and postdocs
Track(s)
Research, Research Management
Certificate
16 units are applicable within the Doctorate plus or Careers plus certificate
* The premises are not barrier-free. Please contact the Bonn Graduate Center if you need assistance.
Description
Scientific projects entail a specific structure and often challenging team dynamics between cooperation and competition. The more diverse the individuals are on the team, the more unexpected stumbling blocks seem to pop up and hinder the shared success of the project.
You will learn about the unique features and dynamics of scientific projects, important aspects of team development, and the complexities and great potential of diverse individuals in scientific collaborative work. This workshop provides you with self-awareness, knowledge, practical skills and competences of diversity-conscious interaction and communication as well as fostering a healthy team-structure and project-development for a shared, scientific success.
Method:
Highly interactive workshop, learning with and from each other in group work, plenum discussions and individual exercises as well as from scientifically based input by the trainer. Your experiences and exemplary critical incidents will be our starting points to understand, reflect upon and develop solutions and alternative ways of working in diverse scientific project teams and practice diversity-conscious communication and teamwork.
Content
- Scientific projects: understanding its power-structures, specific features and handling academic competition & cooperation successfully
- Teamwork: features, roles, stages of teams and team-development
- Our cultural imprints, unconscious bias and expectations
- 4 dimensions of diversity (Diversity Wheel), Causes of Conflicts (C.W. Moore) & diversity
- Key cultural dimensions for diversity-conscious teamwork
- Diversity-conscious, non-violent communication and anti-bias approach
- Creating diversity-conscious teamwork for successful scientific projects
Contact
Bonn Graduate Center
Address
Alte Sternwarte
Poppelsdorfer Allee 47
53115 Bonn
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