We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Conscious leadership inside or outside academia: creating an environment for extraordinary team-work” by Dr. Insa Flachsbarth.

The aim of this two-day workshop is to provide early career researchers with effective tools for actively stepping up into a 360° leadership position – i.e., leading in all directions (upward, downward, and lateral as well as oneself). The learnt skillset can be applied directly in their current position and prepares them for how to lead formally inside or outside of academia. One focus of this workshop will lie on how to lead (diverse) teams towards high innovation and complex problem-solving by creating the necessary conditions for it. For this purpose, the ontological model of leadership, the concept of psychological safety and the model of conscious leadership are introduced

Dates: Tuesday and Wednesday, 18-19 April 2023
Duration: 2 full days, 9-17h
Location: GZMB building, large seminar room 0.233, ground floor, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11 (map)
Trainer: Dr. Insa Flachsbarth

Registration: Please register here and send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de including a short statement on your motivation to attend the workshop.

Workshop description:

Whether you are staying in academia or are working in an engineering company, in a global cooperation or whether you are developing software or practice as a psychologist, you are a knowledge worker. This means that growth today is driven by ideas and ingenuity. Successful people step up and lead in a way that creates the necessary environment for ideas, creativity and innovation to emerge – and all this in an increasingly uncertain and volatile world.
Leadership skills directly influence the performance and innovation potential of a team – be it in a favourable or a dysfunctional way. Apart from preparing for a senior leader’s role inside or outside of academia, already early-career researchers need sound leadership skills to master the challenges they are facing in their so-called “sandwich position”. On the one hand, they are still dependent on the heads of departments, on the other hand, they must already lead students, single researchers or an entire scientific team in order to advance their individual career and to support innovative group results. This requires
strong competencies in leading a team and in lateral leadership as much as sound self- leadership skills.
The aim of this two-day workshop is to provide early career researchers with effective tools for actively stepping up into a 360° leadership position – i.e., leading in all directions (upward, downward, and lateral as well as oneself). The leant skillset can be applied directly in their current position and prepares them for how to lead formally inside or outside of academia. One focus of this workshop will lie on how to lead (diverse) teams towards high innovation and complex problem-solving by creating the necessary
conditions for it. For this purpose, the ontological model of leadership, the concept of psychological safety and the model of conscious leadership are introduced. Thereby, the workshop addresses the following leadership concerns:

• foster curiosity, openness, and intrinsic motivation in colleagues and team members,
• create an environment to harness the power of diversity in teams,
• develop robust and reliable work relations,
• deal with conflict on different hierarchical levels,
• build psychological safety and trust for teams and yourself to thrive in complex an uncertain environments