Programme modules
The mentoring programme combines mentoring, workshops/coaching and networking. Throughout the programme, participants are prepared for future leadership and management tasks in the context of a professorship management tasks in the context of a professorship or a management position in academia and supported in their career development.
Mentoring
In individual discussions with your mentor, you will be supported in planning your further career career as well as in professional and personal decision-making processes and introduced to informal knowledge.
Workshops and Coaching
Workshops and key skills training programmes tailored to your specific needs prepare you specifically for the career step of professorship. In a personal coaching session analyse your own strengths in cooperation with experienced coaches.
Networking
The networking events offer you the opportunity to exchange ideas and expand your professional network.
What is Mentoring?
The origin of mentoring
The concept of mentoring dates back to Greek mythology and the story of the Trojan War: According to this, Odysseus left Ithaca to fight in the Trojan War. He asked his friend to take care of his house and his son Telemachus. This friend was called Mentor. He was educator, patron and fatherly friend of his son.
Mentoring today
Mentoring now means supporting a junior employee (mentee) by an experienced manager (mentor) through the exchange of knowledge and personal experience on the part of the mentor. In individual discussions, the mentee is supported in planning their future career and introduced to informal knowledge. The mentees also receive support from the mentors in professional and personal decision-making processes.
Mentoring is a process. For successful cooperation, it is necessary that mentoring is voluntary and based on sympathy, respect and trust.
Individual mentoring relationship
In addition to the individual mentoring relationship, workshops and coaching services form another module of the mentoring programme.
Workshops offer the opportunity to expand career-relevant (key) skills on the path to becoming a professor. The topics covered in the workshops are tailored to the individual career paths of the participants. Participants are involved in the selection of topics.
In individual coaching sessions, participants analyse their own strengths. This Coaching is optional.
The mentoring programme includes one- to two-day workshops. The design of the workshop series is based on the needs of the programme participants.
The following workshops are planned as one- to two-day intensive training courses: Examples:
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management training
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Application and interview training
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Work-life balance seminars | Balancing children and career
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Career strategies, career coaching
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Project management
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Time management
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Conflict management
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Presentation training
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Communication training, Communication strategies
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third-party funding acquisition
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Networking
Individual coaching and counselling complement the workshops offered in the mentoring programme. Mentees receive intensive counselling tailored to their individual situation in order to prepare themselves optimally for their next career step.
Coaching is provided optionally in the form of two individual coaching sessions. Appointments are arranged through the project coordination team.
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The individual mentoring process is accompanied by a binding framework programme.
Personal networks play a crucial role in successful career planning, which is why networking events occupy a large part of the mentoring programme. The joint networking events, each of which focuses on a central topic, offer the opportunity for mutual personal, professional and technical exchange, for the targeted expansion of professional networks and for clarifying questions relating to mentoring.
All tandem pairs can participate in the networking meetings. This gives mentees the opportunity to get to know other mentors, and mentors the opportunity to network with each other.
The supporting programme is supplemented by informal meetings of the mentees. These informal meetings serve as a platform for the mutual exchange of information and experiences and are organised by the mentees themselves.
