- Our seminar programme- · 2016-04-18 · Seminar programmes- overview Our team 2 Career advice seminars Goodbye ... We select and brief our hosts to provide you with relevant career

- Our seminar programme-

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Seminar programmes- overview

Our team 2 Career advice seminars Goodbye academia! – It has been a pleasure* 3 Women & career* 5 Experts in the job* 7 Company visits* 8 Transferable skills seminars How to row the boat? - Leadership skills* 9 Negotiation* 10 Self-presentation and networking* 11 Convincing & debating 13 Time management* 15 Intercultural communication & genderlect* 17 *** New *** How to build a lab 18

* Seminars marked with an asterisk can be tailored to a female-only or mixed audience. All ATP-XX seminars can be given in German or English.

All ATP-XX seminars will be fully customised to the wishes and needs of the particular customer.

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Our team Dr. Karin Bodewits comes from the Netherlands where she studied Biology, finished a PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Edinburgh, and moved to Munich thereafter. Here, she founded the company ScienceMums, a network for natural scientists. In this function, she became book author, speaker and trainer and published a wide range of articles around the topic “women & career”. Almost three

years later, she founded the career platform NaturalScience.Careers. ScienceMums then became part of this broader platform. Dr. Philipp Gramlich has studied and researched chemistry at various universities in Germany, Australia and Scotland with specialisations in DNA chemistry and molecular machines. After

experience at baseclick, a biotechnology start-up, he is currently Teamleader R&D, QC and Analytics at Eurofins Genomics as well as co-founder of NaturalScience.Careers.

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Goodbye academia! – It has been a pleasure

Have you enjoyed research and teaching in the past years, but now you think it is time to change? Or you are just fed up, but are aware that frustration alone will not lead to a smooth transition out of academia. Maybe you are not sure yet whether to stay in academia or not, but would like to learn more about other possibilities before making any decision? In this course, which has been specifically developed for PhD students and postdocs in the natural sciences, we will not only broaden your view about everything you can do with your qualification, but also give you practical tips on how to reach your personal goals.

Duration: 2 days Course type: 30% theory, 70% practical examples Trainers: Karin Bodewits and/ or Philipp Gramlich Number of participants: Max. 12 This seminar can be tailored to a female-only or mixed audience.



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Alternative career options within...

- the private sector

- the higher education system

- governmental institutions

- and many more…

The job interview

- self-presentation

- body language

- your elevator pitch

- questions and answers

Is there THE right time to make THE right decision?

- - PhD or not? Postdoc or not?

- - How to get on track?- changing professional directions

Salary negotiations

- When to negotiate?

- What to negotiate for and how?

Job applications

- CVs and cover letters

- recruiters, job ads and open applications

Networking

- expanding your network

- keeping your network

- networking for sociopaths

- Social media

This is an interactive course with exercises and real-life examples. There is a special emphasis on shaping your professional career and how you present yourself to future employers.



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Women & career

Since a few decades the rights of women and working women in particular have changed dramatically. But does this also translate into a world full of possibilities or are we still stuck in the process of climbing the various ladders under the glass roof? This seminar will give you guidance on how to navigate your life as a working female scientist.

Duration: 1-2 days Course type: 50% theory, 50% practical examples Trainers: Karin Bodewits (optionally + Philipp Gramlich) Number of participants: Max. 12 This seminar is for female-only audiences.



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(Family-friendly) work environments

University or industry… or somewhere else?

Getting a job

- The importance of networking, collaborating and presenting your research

- Your application

- How to prepare yourself

- Dress code

- The job interview

- Salary negotiations

- Legal aspects

In the job

- You made it! What to expect

- Have a good start

- Where is my seat? Gender-specific behaviour

- Leadership as a woman

- Hormones: legal highs for women?

- Setting targets

- Work-life balance

Mothers at work and in our society

- Dead-end street motherhood? Is there the perfect time to have children?

- Social pressures and norms: Rabenmutter…. a German term without translation!

- Practicalities: nursery places and more

- Double career couples

- Legal aspects

- Political framework in Germany and beyond

Work-life balance

Taking care of your job, yourself and your family- how to get it all done?

Internal and external factors

How you and others see yourself and how this can make you stronger or weaker



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Experts in the job

Two scientists are invited, who made it to a top position in e. g. industry, a governmental institute or patent law, but are still close enough to the target group in age so they can be related to. They will tell about their personal experiences, the challenges they met and how they coped with them. The speakers can provide a presentation to underscore key facts, but will focus on a strongly interactive session. A panel discussion with both speakers will round off the day.

Duration: 1 day Course type: To be determined Trainers: For this module we invite 2 natural scientists who

are professionally active in an area relevant to the participants´ interests.

Number of participants: 12 This seminar can be tailored to a female-only or mixed audience.



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Company visits

What is it like outside of academia? What is the difference between working for a small or large company? Is working for a start-up or maybe a not-for-profit organisation supporting local biotechnology clusters an interesting alternative?

We aim to visit 2 to 3 companies/ organisations during a day trip. The participants have the ability to get to know the organisations, get a better understanding of the career opportunities in several representative work environments and establish valuable contacts outside of academia. We select and brief our hosts to provide you with relevant career info but

abstain from blunt corporate advertisement. We travel around by mini-bus with a lunch stop on the way. Typically, the visits will include a presentation, site visit and Q&A session with professionals from the company. We aim to broaden the perspective on potential work environments by the choice of the tour stops.

Duration: 1 day Course type: Excursion Trainers: Karin Bodewits and/ or Philipp Gramlich Number of participants: 10-20 This seminar can be tailored to a female-only or mixed audience.



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How to row the boat? - Leadership skills

Leadership has undergone changes- in parallel with changes to our work environments. Flatter hierarchies, project work in a matrix structure and more rapid changes of assignments, locations and colleagues are but some of the new challenges we all face. Interpersonal skills become ever more important when leading a team or a project: for motivation, conflict resolution or work delegation. Depending on the wishes of the group, different aspects of this highly important skill set will be emphasized. Examples for topics that are often requested: - Gender-specific communication: sometimes it´s like learning a new language! - How to say no: timing, respect, consequence. - Leading a diverse team: age, gender, cultural background... We´re all individuals and so are our teams. Can we find a leadership style that fits them all and is this even desirable.

Duration: 2 days Course type: 30% theory, 70% practical examples Trainers: Philipp Gramlich Number of participants: Max. 12 This seminar can be tailored to a female-only or mixed audience.



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Negotiation

Negotiation does not only happen on the flea market. It is one of the most important professional skills for virtually every type of profession. And it gets more important the further you move up the ladder. Look at the gender wage gap as an example.

While frying burgers at McDonalds is a showcase for gender equality, management isn´t! The gender wage gap, adjusted for professional choices and working hours, grows from zero to 20% as you change from a chicken costume into finer dress! Discrimination and biases account for some of this, but can hardly explain this steep increase. At higher positions you can and should negotiate! And salary is by far not the only thing you´ll negotiate about throughout your (professional) life: where to go on holidays with your partner, how to arrange yourself with the trumpet-playing neighbour and why your spoiled brat should eat her veggies, all these more or less fierce

negotiations boil down to the same overarching principles. But is there anything you can do about your negotiation skills? Yes! Negotiating is a matter of practice as many others skills and can be learned. Many of the characteristics of a good negotiator are actually quite sympathetic ones and have nothing to do with ripping people off in shabby deals: building relationships, good communication skills and a solid preparation.

Duration: 1 day Course type: 30% theory, 70% practical examples Trainers: Philipp Gramlich Number of participants: Max. 12 This seminar can be tailored to a female-only or mixed audience.



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Self-presentation and networking

Do you find yourself drinking coffee alone or only with your own colleagues at conferences? Do you seem to miss every chance to network? Or do you have the feeling you can’t keep the conversation going or can’t even start it in the first place? No matter if you answer one of those questions with a clear “yes” or you simply have the feeling that you could perfect your self-presentation skills, then this seminar might be just right for you! From the first impression you leave, the conversation that follows to a successful or friendly follow-up… we will cover it during this seminar.

Duration: 2 days Course type: 10% theory, 90% practical examples Trainers: Karin Bodewits and/ or Philipp Gramlich Number of participants: 6-14 This seminar can be tailored to a female-only or mixed audience.



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Networking

- Tips & Tricks

- Expanding your network

- Keeping your network

- Networking for sociopaths

- Facebook & Co.

Small talk

- Starting conversations, keep them going and finding your exit

- Small talk in professional settings (e.g. conferences & meetings)

- Small talk in the private setting (e.g. parties, supermarket, neighbours)

Self-presentation

- You are a brand! - Self-marketing

- Your own behaviour at work

- The message you should (not) bring across for success

- Dress for success

Your personal pitch for:

- Job interview

- Trade- and job fairs

- Conferences and meetings

- After work

Body language

- Clear communication without words

- The first impression

This is an interactive course with role-playing, exercises and real-life examples. There is a special emphasis on communication, networking and body language and how to make your colleagues and superiors aware of your qualities.



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Convincing & debating

Scientists are often in the situation that they need to discuss their scientific findings or their need for extra funding or resources with other members of the scientific community or with the general public. The ability of expressing yourself in a concise and clear manner, using strong arguments, is therefore of utmost importance. This interactive seminar with role-playing, public speaking exercises, argumentation examples and debates, will help scientists to successfully engage during a wide variety of interactions with other scientists and non-scientists. Your question and answer sessions will never be the same again. You will convince your boss to buy this fantastic Mass Spec. You will disarm other people´s arguments against you as you can look behind their facade. And last but not least, you will win on paper (e. g. research- and grant- proposals)!

Duration: 2 days Course type: 10% theory, 90% practical examples Trainers: Karin Bodewits and/ or Philipp Gramlich Number of participants: 6-14 This seminar is for mixed audiences.



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Public speaking

- Fear of (public) speaking

- Resistance

- Feedback, eye contact, group size

Policy statements

- How to convince that the current policy MUST change!

- Interpretation & differentiation

- Problem, cause(s), plan, solutions, consequences, conclusions

Structuring your argumentation

- Head, body, tail

- 3 is it!

- Style figures (drag the attention)

Targeting the audience

- Ad ethos

- Ad pathos

Debating

- What is debating?

- How to use debating skills in your professional life?

- Good arguments & fallacies

Variations: Practice makes perfect, and there is always more to learn. Therefore (on request), this course can be expanded by 1 or more extra days.



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Time management (for part-timers)

Every week has 7 days, 168 hours or 10080 minutes…. a lot of time to do a lot of things! Still, many of us suffer from the feeling of always having too little of it. You might not give it enough thought on how you actually want to spend it and how to distribute it between your career, family, friends and hobbies. These are also no easy questions with answers to be found in a text book- the “ideal time schedule” is simply too different from one person to the other. During this seminar we will analyse the individual schedules of the week and provide tools and ideas to optimise your time investment. Furthermore, we will discuss how to balance science and life in different contexts and how to plan your days in a flexible work environment. The aim is not only to work more efficiently and to reduce personal “stress”, but also to be more satisfied and successful in your career and your personal life.

Duration: 1-2 days Course type: 50% theory and 50% practical examples Trainers: Karin Bodewits or Philipp Gramlich: Max. No. of Participants: 12 This seminar can be tailored to a female-only or mixed audience.



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Time management in general

- - Your 168 hours: How much do you actually work?

- - What to spend time on?

- - How to (not) schedule your calendar?

- Software, calendar, post-it & Co.: your toolbox

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Science-life balance

- - Parenthood/ care giving & career

- - Who is doing the laundry anyway?

- - My Nature paper and my social life: two antipodes shake hands

Time management for part-timers

- - Avoiding the “part-time trap” - - Getting paid for all the hours you work

Flexible working: Your boss will love you!

- - Communicating your individual schedule

- - A working structure that benefits all

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Efficient working

- - How to manage your day efficiently?

- - Your core competencies

- - The not-to-do list

- - Prioritising

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Intercultural communication & genderlect

A more global economy, international work environments and the increase of females holding leadership positions, all have an impact on our work environment as well as our society as a whole. This diversification of teams brings a lot of advantages, but also challenges. Hence, a good understanding of each other’s communication styles and behaviours is one of the keys to professional success. Do men really not listen and do females really always complain? And, why does this foreign colleague say “yes”, but means “no”? How do I convince my boss within minutes and collaborate effectively around the globe? And, are misunderstandings really inevitable? In this seminar, cross-cultural barriers, gender-specific communication and convincing structures will be discussed and practised.

Duration: 1 day Course type: 50% theory, 50% practical examples Trainers: Karin Bodewits Number of participants: Max. 12 This seminar can be tailored to a female-only or mixed audience.


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How to start your own lab

The toolkit for academic success:

Funding, Science and People

“I was trained to do everything but run a lab…” This workshop aims to show you all the tools you need to start your own academic research group. Funding will show you how to pick the right funding type for your plans and how to effectively write applications and proposals. - funding opportunities in Germany, Europe and worldwide - stipends and faculty positions: pro and contra - planning and managing my start - planning my career Science will enable you to structure your own group and position it within the environment at your institute and beyond. - scientific exchange between peers: other participants face the same challenges as you - finding good collaborations - how to get independent from your supervisor - how to perform in interdisciplinary research - how to find mentors

Duration: 2 days Course type: Interactive seminar Trainers: Dr. Philipp Gramlich and Jun.- Prof. Dr. Alexander Schiller Number of participants: Max. 12

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People is all about leading; yourself and your team. Topics can include: - situational leadership - team structures and hierarchies - hiring and firing staff - feedback - conflict management - effective meetings - time management The workshop is highly interactive, mostly based on discussions and interactive exercises. The exact content will be tailored to the wishes of the participants. Our collaborator Dr. ès sc. habil. Alexander Schiller is a juniorprofessor for inorganic chemistry at the University of Jena (Germany). His research interest is biomimetic signal transduction

with inorganic models. Currently he holds a Heisenberg fellowship from the German Science Foundation (DFG). As inorganic chemistry professor he broadened his portfolio in 2012 with the project „Schiller & Mertens“: teaching advanced research skills, such as communication in science, team building and leading competences and didactics and methodology in university teaching. As active researcher and group leader Dr. Schiller knows the challenges of natural scientists and addresses them in an interactive setting. www.scientistsneedmore.de

Reference Dr. Susanne Hennig, Geschäftsführerin/Managing Director Center for NanoScience, LMU Munich “Great workshop with a well-balanced mixture of knowledge transfer and interactive tasks. The trainers were very enthusiastic and close to the target group, and they did a great job in addressing the audience’s specific questions.”

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