Workshops

🎤Speaker: Jaqueline von Saldern

📅 Wednesday, 20th May, 10.00 a.m. – 06.00 p.m.

📍Halbmondstraße 6-8, Raum 2.048/49, Erlangen

🎯Target group: PostDocs and advanced Docs

📚About the speaker and the content

Jacqueline von Saldern:
• German-American, bilingual and bicultural, raised in New York
• Career coach and trainer since 2006, focused on international target groups
• Advises primarily professionals and executives at mid-career and senior levels
• 30 years of professional experience in an international context, mainly in the nonprofit sector, including 15 years in leadership roles (executive management, program leadership)
• Communication and behavioral trainer, artop Institute, Humboldt University of Berlin
• Moderation & facilitation, denkmodell, Berlin (basic and advanced courses)
• NLP coach, NLP & Coaching Institute Berlin
• M.A. in Art History / American Studies, Munich; Sorbonne, Paris; Beloit College, USA

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Workshop Content:

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• Leadership identity: reflection on leadership role, values, and mindset, as well as the development of a personal self-management approach
• Dealing with common female pitfalls

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• Leadership culture environment: How is leadership practiced in academia? Ambiguities, lack of transparency, and dependencies in leadership.
• Lateral leadership: Leading without formal authority
• Profiling and positioning in the workplace; managing relationships with peers and superiors

Strengthening the leadership role: competencies and strategies
• Communication: conducting conversations, handling conflicts

🎤Speaker: Dr. Silke Oehrlein-Karpi

📅 01st and 2nd Juli, each 09.00 a.m. – 01.30 p.m.

📍Zoom

🎯Target group: Docs

📚About the speaker, the content and goals

Dr. Silke Oehrlein-Karpi:
She works as a coach for academics and facilitates group coaching sessions. She worked for several years as a project manager at an institute at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, where she led a subproject in an SFB at Unimedizin Mainz during a funding period. In addition to her many years of experience in individual coaching, she conducts topic-focused interactive workshops that take into account the specifics of the academic system and the various disciplines.

Further information can be found at www.kte-coaching.de.

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Coaching Content:

• Creation of an individual life profile I Preliminary work 14 days before by email
• Identification of key biographical points that are relevant to your professional career
• Reflection and development of your personal core competencies (technical, methodological, social, and personal) and your value profile
• Exchange of information about requirements during academic qualification: orientation, profiling, and appointment phases, also with regard to application processes and suitability in a scientific context (no application document check)
• Discussion of structural challenges and gender aspects – opportunities and risks
• Overview of career alternatives to professorship, such as science management and professional fields outside of academia
• Input and feedback on your own career planningIdentification of key biographical points that are relevant to your professional career
• Input and feedback on your own career planning

Coaching Goals:

A key step in strategically planning your own academic career is to thoroughly analyze your personal skills, competencies, values, and goals. Being able to assess your personal potential helps you make the right decisions, make the most of your individual opportunities, and still have room for your personal life.
In order to develop your professional profile, it is crucial to include not only your technical expertise, but also your own experience and methodological knowledge, as well as your social and communication skills. These individual resources (unique selling points!) can then be compared with the requirements profile in the application process and used and communicated in a very conscious manner.
The professional profile that you develop in this group-coaching will also help you to ensure that your own qualities and success strategies are visible in your own network. This will enable you to proactively shape your personal career path.

🎤Speaker: Dr. Silke Oehrlein-Karpi

📅 27th October 2026, 09.00 a.m. – 03.00 p.m.

📍Erlangen

🎯Target group: PostDocs and advanced Docs

📚About the speaker and the content

Dr. Silke Oehrlein-Karpi:
She works as a coach for academics and facilitates group coaching sessions. She worked for several years as a project manager at an institute at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, where she led a subproject in an SFB at Unimedizin Mainz during a funding period. In addition to her many years of experience in individual coaching, she conducts topic-focused interactive workshops that take into account the specifics of the academic system and the various disciplines.

Further information can be found at www.kte-coaching.de.

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🎤Speaker: Dr. Veronika Fuest

📅 Tuesday 17th and 24th November, each 09.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.

📍Online

🎯Target group: PostDocs and Docs

📚About the speaker and the content

Dr. Veronika Fuest:

Veronika Fuest is a certified consultant (systemic transactional analysis) and trainer with multidisciplinary academic qualifications, experience in collaborative research projects at various scientific institutions, academic teaching of political anthropology, various assignments in science management (project coordination, consultancy, management of ombudsman affairs, internal process moderation) and actor and institu-tional analyses in science organizations.

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Workshop Content:

In Germany and elsewhere researchers are embedded in specific hierarchical constellations. Regardless of their position at the top, middle or lower levels of their organization, sometimes they meet irritating and even incomprehensible behavior and outcomes: formal regulations may be bypassed, expertise and institutionally defined responsibility may turn out to be unimportant when decisions are taken, rival camps may impede reasonable cooperation, etc.
Some processes involving power games are perceived as unproductive, frustrating or even annoying. However, experience also tells us that difficult situations can be mastered by analyzing the dynamics of key situations and of the players‘ interests involved, by skillful communication and, generally, by a power-conscious approach.

In this workshop, you will learn to:
• become familiar with the concept of micropolitics and related tools for actively influencing processes within organizations.
• identify typical arenas of micropolitics
• analyze and reflect on your own environment, your roles in micropolitical dynamics, and the phenomenon of abuse of power

Workshop goal:

Participants become familiar with useful concepts from micropolitical theory and are better able to recognize and contextualize micropolitical games and the abuse of power within organizational systems. They receive impulses for reflecting on their own roles, scope for action, and development opportunities with regard to their personal micropolitical competence.

🎤Speaker: Dr. Viktoria Irlbauer-Müller

📅 N.N.

📍N.N.

🎯Target group: PostDocs and Docs

🎤Speaker: Dr. Dieta Kuchenbrand

📅 01st and 2nd June 2027

📍Erlangen

🎯Target group: PostDocs

🎤Speakers: Dr. Cordula Glass und Dr. Dennis Kirchberg

📅 Tuesday 1st December, 10.00 a.m. – 12.00 p.m.

📍Online

🎯Target group: PostDocs and advanced Docs

📚About the speakers and the content

Detailed information follow soon.

🎤Speaker: Dr. Dzifa Vode

🚀Coaches: Dr. Dzifa Vode, Susanne Jäckle, Deidre Rieker

Morning program: Anna Isenmann

📅 06th-08th April 2027, each 09.00 a.m. – 07.00 p.m., optional morning program 07.45 – 08.45 a.m.

📍Freyeslebenstraße 1, Erlangen

🎯Target group: PostDocs and Docs

📚About the trainers

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📚About the content and goals

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🎤Speaker: Dr. Cordula Glass

📅 09th February 2027, 10.00 a.m. – 01.00 p.m.: Introduction and preparation for the workshop

📅  29th and 30th April 2027, 10.00 a.m. – 05.00 p.m. and 10.00 a.m. – 02:00 p.m.: Grant application workshop

📍Erlangen

🎯Target group: PostDocs and advanced Docs

Please note: If you register, you are required to attend all sessions, as they are interdependent.

📚About the speaker and the content

Detailed information follow soon.