Coaching for newly appointed professors

Target group: newly appointed professors, junior and tenure track professors

Next date: on request

Duration: six months

Coach: individual coach of your choice

Course language: German/English or in consultation with coach

Registration: on request, via email with CV and short letter of motivation

The Graduate Academy at Clausthal University of Technology supports onboarding of newly appointed professors with an individualized and personalized coaching service. Topics such as role identification, prioritization, stress management and taking on extensive teaching responsibility while at the same time building up a working group under sometimes high pressure of expectations or appearance and positioning in academic self-administration and committee work are just some of the issues that can be dealt with in coaching.

If you are interested, please let us know your personal details (name, start date, institution and department) as well as a short letter of motivation stating that you would like to take advantage of individual coaching. You are free to choose a coach, costs will initially be covered up to €1,500.

Possible coaches with whom we have already worked successfully are:

Franziska Jantzen (Hanover) with the focal points Field competence in science, managers in science.

Dr. Kerstin Mauth (Gƶttingen) with the focus on Personnel and management development in the university context.

Dr. Matthias Scholz (Trier) with the focal points Coaching of scientists and managers, managers in science, management development, team building, personnel management in science and clinics.

Dr. Karin Rasmussen (Berlin) with the focus on "Power in the university context" and dealing with it confidently.