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Career Support Group
A Collaborative Learning Experience for Senior Researchers

Offen gestalteter Arbeitsbereich

This Peer-to-Peer Groupcoaching offers you a supportive and collaborative environment where you can foster your professional and personal growth together with a fixed group of peers and under the facilitation of an experienced career coach.

You are a Postdoc who is wondering how to best deal with career challenges?

You are a Postdoc who is wondering how to best deal with career challenges – both in the present, as well as the near future?

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You are dealing with issues such as:

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  • Networking and how to build successful relationships

  • Analyzing and reflecting on possible career development scenarios for the next 2 years

  • Values: what is important to you, where do you want to make an impact?

  • How to find back creativity and joy

  • Rejection and failures

  • Making important career decisions

  • Becoming aware of your core strenghts

  • Doing research in a challenging setting

  • Time management (e.g. compatibility of family and career)

  • How to relax under pressure and become more friendly with yourself

 

You rarely seem to find the time to deal with these questions? Let alone on a regular basis? Then this Groupcoaching is for you!

How will you benefit from the Groupcoaching?

During the Peer Coaching you receive:

 

  • Diverse perspectives from researchers from different backgrounds, experiences and departments.

  • Support, accountability and encouragement from group members. Share your successes and setbacks with peers, maintain motivation and accountability, increasing the likelihood of achieving your goals.

  • Sense of community: you and your peers build meaningful connections and share similar aspirations.

  • Skill-building in group dynamics: you have the opportunity to improve self-awareness, interpersonal skills, communication, and empathy. These skills are valuable in both personal and professional settings.

  • Multiple perspectives on challenges: When facing individual obstacles, your peers can brainstorm and offer various solutions. This collaborative         problem-solving approach often leads to more comprehensive and innovative solutions.

How is it Organized?

  • The Peer-to-Peer group meets seven times during 10 moths; two whole-day meetings on-site to start and finish and five virtual meetings, each 3 hours, in between.

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  • Throughout the sessions, all Postdocs partake in a check-in round where they have the opportunity to voice the difficulties and obstacles they are facing in their journey. During each session, the participants' specific problems are addressed and tackled.

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  • Those encountering challenges are given the chance to receive valuable input and feedback from both fellow peers and the career advisor. At the end of the session, each participant shares their focal points and improvement goals for the period leading up to the next meeting. The following session involves reviewing the progress made towards achieving these goals, as well as suggesting resolutions, next steps, and exercises.

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  • In addition to the group meetings, every participant is paired with an accountability partner. This partnership involves exchanging updates, providing feedback, and offering motivation.

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  • You will also have the chance to schedule one 1:1 call of 90 minutes with your career coach to receive support in an individual setting.                                                                              

  • Size of group: 6-8 participants

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