Leadership Qualification Program

Have you taken up a professorship at the university in recent months? With this step, in addition to research and teaching, the management of a team - increasingly also at a distance -, personnel selection, dealing with conflicts and your own strategic positioning are now part of your new range of tasks. The University of Tübingen would like to support you in these challenging tasks from the very beginning.

The specially designed leadership qualification program is intended to support first-time professors in creating efficient work structures and using established leadership tools to successfully manage their daily work as leaders in the academic environment.

The workshop series consists of a total of six modules, three of which are compulsory. The opening and the final seminars take place as one-day face-to-face events. In addition, four optional topic-specific modules are offered as half-day online events. In order to complete the program successfully, at least one module should be taken as an option in addition to the mandatory modules.

Since the program uses interactive-involving methods, your individual questions can be included.

If necessary, seminars will be held in English. Please let us know your preference regarding the language when you register.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact us at any time.

You can register for the program via ILIAS. After successful admission to the course, you can then register independently for the individual modules.

11.04.2024 - Online Module III (optional) - Find the right employees, retain them and lead them to success

Thursday, 11.04.2024 | 09:00 am - 1:00 pm | online

Not least as a result of the Corona pandemic, the expectations of many younger junior scientists have changed with regard to working hours, location and workload, as well as supervision. At the same time, the number of applicants for scientific positions is decreasing significantly in almost all departments.
In order to assemble a suitable dedicated team under these conditions, the leadership focus should be more on recruiting and retaining employees.
In this online module, you will learn a) the core elements of professional, requirements-oriented recruiting and selection, and b) methods to better understand the demands and needs of your (new) employees, to respond appropriately, and to properly promote their potential.

Contents:

Finding interesting applicant groups
Core elements of good personnel selection
Sound out and take up employee demands
Rejecting "excessive" demands in an appreciative manner
"Positive leadership as the basis for long-term employee retention

Target group: First-time professors
Implementation: Prof. Dr. Bronner (impulsplus)

Registration via ILIAS.

27.06.2024 - Online module IV (optional) - Team roles, team dynamics and leading heterogeneous teams

Thursday, 27.06.2024 | 09:00 am - 01:00 pm | online

Especially in science, working groups are often composed of employees with diverse scientific and personal backgrounds. In the online module, you will learn tools to strengthen your (heterogeneous) working group as a team and create a "team spirit". In doing so, you will become aware of your own role in the team and understand how to best bring together the different skills and team types. You will grasp the dynamics within your team and develop strategies that facilitate leading heterogeneous teams and enable mutual exchange.

Contents:

Creating a climate of "inspiration"
Strengthening motivation within the group
Balancing tensions, understanding team dynamics
Psychological safety and establishing a culture of mistakes
Designing team building measures, retreats and team retreats

Target group: First-time professors
Implementation: Prof. Dr. Frohnen (impulsplus)

Registration via ILIAS.

27.09.2024 - Final seminar (compulsory) - Leading (difficult) conversations in a solution-oriented way and designing my leadership map

Friday, 27.09.2024 | 09:00 am - 5:00 pm | Hohentübingen Castle, Fürstenzimmer

Good conversation management is not always easy, especially with more difficult topics, such as criticism conversations. In the final event, you will change perspectives in order to successfully master difficult discussion situations. You will try out tools for focusing and finding solutions in criticism talks and other difficult discussion occasions.
In the afternoon of the event, a review of the curriculum will take place - for leadership reflection and to design a leadership map for your further leadership "work".

Contents:

The intervention cross - recognizing the needs of employees
Approaches for addressing difficult topics - getting to the point
Solution-oriented discussion - creating perspectives
My leadership map
I pack my leadership suitcase...

Target group: First-time professors
Implementation: Prof. Dr. Bronner / Prof. Dr. Frohnen (impulsplus)

Registration via ILIAS.

--> For participation it is recommended to have already attended as many of the modules as possible.