Leadership Cases – Discussions and Work on First Challenges for Young Leaders

Being a young researcher brings along many challenging situations that you face in your role as a young leader. Communicating into all different directions, towards your supervisor, your colleagues, your students and many more people requires quite some flexibility and might sometimes also bring a challenge.

In this format, we want to invite you to share your experiences, talk about individual cases, reflect your role and find areas of improvement together!

Workshop topics:

• Discussion of leadership experiences: which are challenging situations and why?
• Different aspects of your role as a leader: how do you see yourself and how are you conveying your vision to others?
• Clustering of leadership challenges and analysis of roles, needs and communication aspects
• Looking at your individual examples, best practices and questions
• Finding out how you can best use your leadership toolbox and be effective in these situations

In order to make the most of the workshop for yourself, please reflect on one or the other situation that you have encountered. This might have been a conversation with your supervisor about your ideas, a situation with colleagues whom you are planning a publication or a conference with that you are responsible for. Or meetings with students that you sometimes wished to have been more professional in when it comes to motivation, coordination, goal orientation or other aspects of your work. We will be happy if you bring challenges to the workshop, but you don’t have to, thank you!

Language: English

Your lecturer:

Wolfgang Leybold co-founded his first HR consultancy in 2004, where he acted as Managing Partner and advised clients along the complete recruiting process and offered numerous training formats in leadership and communications. In 2019, Wolfgang founded Leybold Strategy Consultants. He is an experienced trainer and coach and has already been invited to several universities domestically and internationally (Austria, Ireland, UK, USA). He is particularly committed to helping PhD students fully leverage their doctoral studies as a catalyst for their career.