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Coaching

Coaching is an innovative form of personal development. It supports the reflexion of your career plans as well as important decisions regarding further career steps or reorientations. In addition, coaching can be both process-oriented and targeted.

The Potsdam Graduate School supports PhD candidates, Postdocs, Juniorprofs and New Appointees at the University of Potsdam with coaching. Coaching is supported for a maximum of 4.5 hours.

There is no application deadline. You can apply for coaching at any time within the available financial means.

Coaching for PhD candidates

Prerequisite for funding

  • Membership in the Potsdam Graduate School
  • Advanced PhD candidates (from the 3rd year of doctorate) or successful participants of a workshop in the "Career Development & Orientation" section of PoGS
  • Transfer a co-payment of 25,- € per coaching hour
  • Feedback oncoaching

How do I receive coaching?

  • Select a suitable coach from the list below. If required, we will support you in choosing the right coach.
  • Fill out the application form, print it out and sign it.
  • Attach your admission to doctoral studies or your certificate of attendance for a completed course in the section “Career Development & Orientation” to your application.
  • Send your application by post or email to Potsdam Graduate School (PoGS).
  • Once you have received your confirmation of sponsorship, you arrange the coaching appointments individually with the coach of your choice.

Coaching for Postdocs, Juniorprofs and New Appointees

The coaching is part of the individual support of Postdocs, Juniorprofs and New Appointees of the University of Potsdam. These are supported within the limits of the available funds with up to 2,000 € per person and year.

Prerequisite for funding

  • existing membership in the Potsdam Graduate School
  • Transfer a co-payment of 37.50 € per coaching hour
  • Feedback on coaching

How do I receive coaching?            

  • Select a suitable coach from the list below. If required, we will support you in choosing the right coach.
  • Fill out the application form, print it out and sign it.
  • Send your application by post or email to Potsdam Graduate School (PoGS).
  • Once you have received your confirmation of sponsorship, you arrange the coaching appointments individually with the coach of your choice.

Coaches list

COACHTHEMATIC FOCUSWEBSITECOACHING LANGUAGE
Dr. Mechthild Baumann
  • Writing and proposal coaching
  • Proposal Coaching Horizon Europe
 German / English
Betty Boden
  • Presentation & Teaching in English
  • Women in Science and Business
  • Success Teams
  • Personal development

http://www.bettyboden.de

German / English
Dr. Phillipa Cook
  • Re-orientation
  • Transition to the non-university labour market
  • English as a scientific language
  • Communication & Presentation
 German / English
A. Jung ChangeLab Organisationsberatung
  • Leadership competence, leadership culture
  • Employee-orientated leadership
  • Error and feedback culture
  • Conflict management & conflict coaching
https://changelab-organisationsberatung.de/en/German / English
Dr. Monika Klinkhammer
  • Management and leadership in higher education and science
  • Professional development, identity, visions, strategies
  • Career planning & profiling in the science profession
  • Vocation training / application strategies for academics
www.monikaklinkhammer.deGerman
Ute Detlefsen
Kultur der Veränderung
  • Leadership competence, systemic leadership
  • Conflict and crisis management
  • Hypnosystemic conflict management & solution-focussed group work
  • Mediation, systemic constellations
www.coaching-neurosystemisch.deGerman
Dr. Julia Lindenmair
  • Career planning, career coaching
  • Doctoral and habilitation coaching
  • Coaching for junior research group leaders and newly appointed professors
  • Work-life coaching and self-management
www.coachingnetz-wissenschaft.de/team/dr-julia-lindenmair/German
Dr. Anne Löchte
  • Personal development and self-organisation
  • Conflict and crisis management, crises of meaning
  • Advice for academics between doctorate and professorship, special expertise: non-university career paths
  • Counselling for people who live and work with physical disabilities
www.anne-loechte.deGerman
Dr. Juliane Lorenz
  • Career coaching, competence analysis, potential development
  • Personal development and self-organisation
  • Support for change projects and complex challenges
  • Work-life balance, increasing personal satisfaction, female empowerment
https://www.juliane-lorenz.deGerman
Dr. phil. habil. Susanne Lummerding
  • Career planning, decisions, motivation
  • Application and negotiation strategies
  • Communication skills, conflict management
  • Efficient use of working time, freedom, burnout prevention
www.lummerding.atGerman / English
Dr. Leonie Meyer-Krentler
  • Writing and proposal coaching
  • Publications (habilitation thesis, dissertations, lectures, essays)
  • Professional feedback, dealing with writing crises
  • especially for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers from the humanities and social sciences
www.wde-berlin.deGerman
Svenja Neupert
  • Future competence, cultural change
  • Productivity and mental strength in agile times
  • Agile project management and leadership
  • Networking, life and career planning
www.svenja-neupert.com/english-home-page.htmlGerman / English
Dr. Boris Schmidt
  • Career decisions
  • Management tasks and positions
  • Conflicts in the workplace
  • Dealing with change projects and challenges
www.thema31.deGerman / English

Please send us your signed application for individual coaching:

University of Potsdam
Potsdam Graduate School
Am Neuen Palais 10
14469 Potsdam

Fax: +49 331 977-4555

Email: pogs@uni-potsdam.de

Porträt Dr. Bettina Buchholz

Kontakt: Dr. Bettina Buchholz

Dr. Bettina Buchholz

Potsdam Graduate School

 

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