Personal Development as Research Managers - Module I

Background:

To become successful as ICT-professionals ESRs need profound knowledge and skills in their field and have to develop personal skills that allow them to manage scientific programs, research or working teams and themselves. The RAINBOW program gives the frame for both: profound development of knowledge and skills in the scientific field and personality development. For the later a specific training program for personal development as future leaders in the field of biomechanics simulation for personalized clinical design is offered.

Goals of the Personality Development Program:

The overall goal of the program is to develop individuals able to lead and manage

highly efficiently and effectively themselves and others.

  • Build the basis of self-reflection and leadership competences necessary for effective leadership in a scientific environment.
  • Develop team leading competencies to construct a participatory teamleading approach without losing focus and clear targets.
  • Develop communication skills to manage and lead teams and staff.
  • Develop diplomatic, constructive and respectful negotiation skills to conduct negotiations efficiently and to be able to manage conflicts within and between teams.

Organisation of the program:

The following aspects describe the type and organisation of the program:

  • Each participant develops his own personal development project.
  • Combination of modular group sessions of 2 days each year with experience time in between the sessions and individual coaching sessions for each participant.
  • Each group includes about between eight to twelve participants of different nationalities and institutions with different backgrounds. The participants follow the modules as a group.
  • The sessions are organized in combination with other meetings/sessions in the frame of the RAINBOW program in spring each year.
  • Methodology of the sessions: theoretical input, concrete experiences and reflection.

Content of the program:

Module 1: Kick-off and Personality, 2 days – 21/22 May 2019

  • Getting to know the other members of the group and their backgrounds
  • Building trust in the group
  • Clarify personal goals and start developing individual projects
  • Get an overview of the role of a leader (what does leadership mean?)
  • First self-assessment of leadership competencies
  • Introduction of human personality models as instrument to gain insight into own personality and the personality of others (i.g. key4you, LUXXProfile)
  • Discover challenges of different personalities in leading themselves and others
  • Fixing individual dates for the coaching sessions 1
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Individual Coaching session 1 via Skype (1,5 hours per participant):

  •  Possibility of self-assessment with at least one of the introduced models 
  • Individual feed-back coaching session to the self-assessment

Course material

See Internal Forum > courses > material pmpdrm (section accessed only by project members):

  •  Monika Herr's slide presentation
  • Flipovers produced and photographed during course
  • Handout for Role analysis
  • Handout for Self-assessment of leadership competencies
  • Handout for Self-assessment of motives
  • Handout for Self-assessment of personality
  • Handout for Evaluation of personality self-assessment
  • Handout on Personal Goals

Agenda

Timing: 21.05.2019 from 09.00-17.00 and 22.05.2019 from 09.00-16.00

Day 1: 21 May 2019

08.45 Arrival of participants
09.00 Welcome and introduction: Background and objectives of the program, Outline of module 1
09.30 I. Overview of the program: 

  • Which modules are planned?
  • Content of each module. 
  • Character and methodology of the course

10.30 II. Focus on the participants and the group:

  • Get to know the others in the program 
  • Build the group to be able to work intensively together 
  • Develop agreements of cooperation
  • Including 15 min Team break

12.15 III. What does leadership mean?:

  • Discover and investigate „role“ and task of a leader in the scientific
    field 
  • Role analysis of a scientific leader

13.00 Lunch break
14.00 Continuation III. What does leadership mean?

  • Self-assessment of leadership competencies
  • Identification of own challenges

15.00 IV. Leadership and personal values/motives:

  • Discover the influence of values/motives on the human way of acting
    in (professional) life 
  • Introduction of a personal profile model based on motives
  • Including 15 min Team break

16.45 Check out of the day
17.00 End Day 1.

Day 2: 22 May 2019

09.00 Check-in
09.15 Continuation IV. Leadership and personal values/motives:

  • Further discovery of the introduced personal profile model
  • Influences of the motives on the way of leading oneself and others

10.05 V. Leadership and personality:

  • Introduction of a human personality model
  • Discovering challenges in leading for and of different personalities
  • Self-assessment of own personality and identification of own challenges
  • Including 15 min Team break

12.40 Lunch Break
13.45 VI. Personal development goals:

  • Every participant develops his/her own personal development goals and development project for the course.
  • Building of Peer-coaching-groups for the reflection and transfer work between the different modules of the course.

14.40 VII. Organization of individual coaching:

  • Every participant can benefit of three individual coaching sessions over the duration of the course. The first sessions will be organized during module 1.

15.30 Check out of the day and the first module
16.00 End of module 1

Preparatory Task

  1. Please prepare a flipchart that presents shortly for the other members who you are,
    where you come from, what you are working on and what your experiences are so far in
    leading groups. 
  2. After having read the content and the goals of the personality development program
    please reflect the following:
  • What are your personal challenges so far while working in groups?
  • What are your expectations for the program? What do you want to gain from the
    program? 
  • What is a “good leader” in scientific world for you?
  • Please take notes that you can use during the course.

Future modules

Module 2: Team development – 2 days, 16/17 March 2020 - see description of module 2
Module 3: Basics of conflict management, polarity management – 2 days, 3/4 December 2020 - see description of module 3
Module 4: Communication – basics and for staff talks, closure – 15/16 March 2021 - see description of module 4

See general programme description for further information