Developing Your Leadership in Academia

What makes you a powerful leader? How can you develop your own style of leadership? How can you overcome some of the obstacles you face? For example gender, cultural background, different worldviews, etc? In this interactive course for PhD candidates in their second or third year, we will investigate what makes you powerful as a leader. What can you do to become more empowered and bring balance to the current ‘imbalance’ in leadership? And also we'll support you in finding out what your personal leadership style is.

We start the course with a workshop and discussion regarding all sorts of diversity and how this is connected to a leadership role, which might shape how you view your own leadership ambitions. The two subsequent sessions allow you to put what you have learnt into practice, focussing hands-on exercises in role-playing and communication skills.

Format

• 30 minutes preparation
• 3 three-hour sessions
• with homework

Learning goals

By the end of the course you:

• Have had discussion and conversation about leadership, what leadership means in a broader sence and gained insight in what leadership means to you (first session)
• Have gained practical skills to help your realise your own leadership potential, either inside or outside academia as well as in your personal life (second and third session)

Feedback from previous participants

• Course rated 4.3/5
• "A great workshop that every PhD should follow."
• "Thanks for the nice workshop! It was a good experience and gave me a lot of stuff to think about. I really went outside my comfort zone and never thought I would have enjoyed improv exercises!"

Practical information

• Dates to be announced
• Please note that in order to receive the credits for this course, active participation and attendance at all 3 sessions is required
• If you cannot attend partially due to sickness and emergencies, we kindly ask you to keep us informed
• Details on the location(s) will be shared by email one week in advance