Fit for leadership?

Academia Raetica

How to lead and motivate a team and plan efficiently

Did you know that your leadership style and the quality of team communication have a huge impact on motivation and performance? That team dynamics can either become an obstacle or lead to a success story? Performance and results depend on the quality of teamwork, on established communication and cooperation structures and effective task management. And last but not least on your attitude, confidence (!) and ability to build trust, integrate and get every team member aboard. If you want to enhance your leadership and self-management skills and at the same time have fun with group exercises and role-playing games, this workshop is for you!

After getting to know relevant leadership models, our focus will be on leading yourself. You will learn how to implement effective routines and tools right from the beginning in order to save you from common pitfalls. The workshop provides you with basic aspects of team dynamics and useful elements of leadership communication. Furthermore, we will discuss elements of motivating leadership and how to build trust and encourage teams towards the realization of goals.

These new-found leadership skills will help you motivate and inspire a team, leverage teamwork i.e., initiate and maintain a positive team spirit and successful collaboration.

Discussion Points:

✦  Relevant leadership models with focus on transformational leadership

✦  Team development stages and team roles

✦ Elements of high performance teams

✦ Planning and prioritizing own and the team’s tasks (Kanban method)

✦ Leading yourself (attitude, growth mindset, confidence, strength orientation, work-life balance)

✦  Communicate effectively in a leading role

✦  Deal with emotions (own and others’)

✦  Unify diverse teams, integrate different personalities and interests (Riemann types)

✦ Motivate and inspire by looking at your own motivation, by finding attractive goals, by making accomplishments visible, by encouraging and challenging with feedback

✦  Build trust through listening and empathy

General information and fee

• Dates: Thursday, September 26, and Friday, Sepetmber 27, from ca. 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM

• Location: Davos

• Lecturer: Monika Maria Thiel

• Language: English

• Target audience: All scientists with a leadership role or transitioning into one

• Course fee for participants from Academia Raetica member or partner institutions. The course fee includes coffee breaks.

  • CHF 150

• Fee for external participants (not working at an Academia Raetica member or partner institution). The course fee includes coffee breaks.

  • CHF 300

• Registration deadline: September 1, 2024

• Max. number participants: 12 (min. number participants 8)

• Our terms and conditions

• Course Coordinator: Daniela Heinen, daniela.heinen@academiaraetica.ch, phone 081 410 60 84

• Credit points: The workload in­clu­ding pre­pa­ra­ti­on and ho­me­work will be ca. 15 hours for attendance of the workshop. If you need ECTS you can do an additional assigment (please contact us for details).

Plea­se check beforehand with your su­per­vi­sor at your uni­ver­si­ty, if the cour­se counts towards ECTS.

• Course certificate: You will receive a certificate of attendance, if you attend the entire course.

About the lecturer

Monika Maria Thiel studied Theology before gaining an MA in I/O Psychology, Psycholinguistics and Intercultural Communication as well as additional qualifications in the fields of Commercial Mediation, Collaborative Practice, the Graves Values System, Systemic Supervision and Consulting. She is also a certified trainer and speech therapist.

Before founding Creative Dialogue in 2006, Monika Maria managed an adult education institution. She also worked 15 years as an editor for the Springer publishing house in Heidelberg. Monika Maria is a specialist for leadership, team development, communication and conflict management and is a lecturer at a number of universities both in Germany and abroad. As a coach, trainer, facilitator and mediator, Monika Maria has developed international teams and individuals. She has gained international experience in Luxembourg, Belgium, Switzerland, France, the UK, Bolivia, the USA, Israel and Palestine.

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