Workshop goals:

• The participants are able to supervise Bachelor and Master students a) socially and b) scientifically in their daily scientific work/ internship and in their writing process.
• Participants know their role, mission and limitations as supervisors.   
• Participants are able to act as supervisors /are able to communicate in an effective and supportive way   

Workshop contents:

• Basic knowledge of scientific supervision and leadership; Differences between a supervision process, coaching and mentoring; Handling your own expectations and the expectations of others; Role, tasks and limitations of supervisors; Integrating Bachelor and Master students into projects and teams; Integrating supervising tasks into the supervisor‘s own daily scientific work
• How to support your students in: planning the process of their scientific project/ project work/ internship; setting and reaching their goals; identifying their needs and values; achieving a reasonable work-study-life-balance and taking care of themselves; taking care of family, financial and health issues; coping with success, obstacles and disappointments, coping with lacks of motivation and mood swings, becoming self-aware of emotional and physical limits, coping with unexpected feelings; plan of action in cases of sexual harassment.
• Approach and methods: working with the inner team; determining values and needs; DILTS method; Kanban-Board; key intercultural competences in scientific and non-scientific supervision processes.
• Communication skills: 4-sides model; preventing conflicts;  nonviolent, mindful communication with regard to diversity; active listening; giving and receiving constructive feedback.

Course methods:             

• Interactive hands-on workshop with exercises and scientific input, enabling the participants to supervise students/ interns in an effective and respectful way, comprising interactive individual, pair and group work (oral, performative), trainer and group feedback, self-reflection and development of different action and communication strategies.

Trainer: Dr. Imke Lode, ProSciencia

Photograph: Universität Hamburg