Leadership in science requires a clear understanding of one's own role, communication skills and a feel for institutional dynamics. After dealing with our own attitude and values in the first part of the workshop series, we now focus on the team. The participants are given an overview of different leadership styles. In the subsequent reflection, they will look at their own leadership biography and their leadership goals: How do I want to lead - and what suits me and my role?

We also focus on motivational leadership. Based on the three central motives of motivational psychology (performance, relationship, influence), participants learn how they can better understand employees and lead them in a differentiated way.
Different motives require different communication strategies - and it is precisely these that we develop together.

The third focal point focusses on the informal rules of the game at universities: Power structures, networks, coalitions. How do micro-politics and implicit expectations work - and how can I navigate them with confidence? The focus is on the three pillars of lateral leadership: building trust, facilitating understanding and handling power with care.

The workshop is aimed at female academics who want to establish themselves professionally and confidently in their new leadership role, as well as those who are undecided about taking on a leadership role.

The workshop supports participants in recognising and using their personal leadership strengths, recognising key leadership skills, facing challenges and obstacles in everyday leadership and, above all, developing their own unique attitude.

Lecturer: Dr Meike Z?ger, certified trainer and coach at Lukas Bischof Hochschulberatung
Participants: (Post-)doctoral students and newly appointed professors (since 2022)

Registration form

Please register for the workshop by 24 July 2025 by e-mail to gleichstellungsbeauftragte@fh-potsdam.de