Transferable Skills Course: Leadership Skills

Start: May 2, 2019
End: May 3, 2019
Speaker: Matthias Mayer
www.mmsc.de
Location: MPI-MG
Room: seminar room 2
Host: Kirsten Kelleher

Open to scientists and guests of the MPIMG.

Please email kelleher@molgen.mpg.de to register for this workshop.

Essentials for your first leadership position.

Course Objectives
1. You have a clear understanding of what is important to lead
2. You know about different styles of leading and when to use which approach
3. You know about personality types and how to build a team
4. You know what you can improve or change to become a good leader
5. You create an individual activity list for specific next steps

Content
Essential skills necessary to lead people – be it in academia or industry
 - Leadership = Vision + Relationships + Tasks
 - How to develop and share a vision
 - Building and managing teams
 - Respond to different personality types – the DISC model in practice
 - Giving and receiving feedback (lauding and criticising)
 - Motivating and supporting others
 - Delegating
 - Making decisions
 - Managing conflict
 - Styles of leadership
 - Body language and wording - how to be perceived as a leader

Where applicable, the trainer will also focus on gender specific issues and give according advice.