Supervision and Leadership for PhD students
Goals:
1. The participants are able to supervise Bachelor and Master students a) socially and b) scientifically in their daily scientific work/ internship and in their writing process
2. Participants know their role, mission and limitations as supervisors.
3. Participants are able to act as supervisors /are able to communicate in an effective and supportive way.
Workshop contents:
- Basic knowledge of scientific supervision and leadership; Differences between a supervision process, coaching and mentoring; Handling your own expectations and the expectations of others; Role, tasks and limitations of supervisors; Integrating Bachelor and Master students into projects and teams; Integrating supervising tasks into the supervisor‘s own daily scientific work
- How to support your students in: planning the process of their scientific project/ project work/ internship; setting and reaching their goals; identifying their needs and values; achieving a reasonable work-study-life-balance and taking care of themselves; taking care of family, financial and health issues; coping with success, obstacles and disappointments, coping with lacks of motivation and mood swings, becoming self-aware of emotional and physical limits, coping with unexpected feelings; plan of action in cases of sexual harassment.
- Approach and methods: working with the inner team; determining values and needs; DILTS method; Kanban-Board; key intercultural competences in scientific and non-scientific supervision processes.
- Communication skills: 4-sides model; preventing conflicts; nonviolent, mindful communication with regard to diversity; active listening; giving and receiving constructive feedback.
Course methods:
Interactive hands-on workshop with exercises and scientific input, enabling the participants to supervise students/ interns in an effective and respectful way, comprising interactive individual, pair and group work (oral, performative), trainer and group feedback, self-reflection and development of different action and communication strategies.
Trainer:
Dr. Imke Lode, ProSciencia
