Self-Leadership for Scientists
How self-awareness, self-confidence and self-efficacy can help you to achieve your goals
Who this Course is for
Style of this Course
The workshop consists of two and a half days online:
- Day 1 & 2: 9:00 -17:30 (CET/CEST)
- Day 3: 9:00 -12:30 (CET/CEST)
The format of the workshop is highly interactive and practical, conducted as a live online training via Zoom. It involves case studies, role play, group work in breakout rooms, and discussion sessions. You will be actively involved in the course, discussing your own life and leadership experiences and self-reflecting in a guided process. You will be taught leadership and self-focused techniques that can be readily used in daily life to enhance your leadership, success and satisfaction.
What you will learn
Topics Covered
Self-awareness| Communication | Emotional intelligence| Personal growth
The session focuses on strengthening self-confidence by fostering belief in yourself, learning to act rather than react to emotions, building on your achievements, and identifying ways to improve your self-confidence. In the afternoon, the focus shifts to enhancing self-efficacy, helping you clarify your next steps toward your goals, manage stress and pressure, maintain work-life balance, and leverage the power of positive feedback.
Topics Covered
Self-confidence | Stress management | Feedback | Work-life balance
The session explores strategies, case studies, and coaching to deepen your understanding of biases and stereotypes, examine how your self-leadership impacts your leadership, and engage with case studies shared by participants.
Topics Covered
Bias | Coaching | Delegation | Personal growth
Self-Leadership for Scientists
Live Online Training
Explore your leadership in a dynamic digital setting
What’s included
- two and a half days of training
- Course Materials
- Dynamic digital experience
Dates & Locations
Our Training Team – Empowering Leaders in Science
Melissa Davies is one of our associated expert trainers. She has over 30 years of experience in negotiation, partnership building, and conflict management.
She and her training team specialises in areas such as organisational development, self-leadership, capacity building, and project management. They ensure that each course is dynamic, practical, and tailored to equip participants with the skills and tools needed to thrive as leaders in the life sciences.
For each course, we provide two trainers to balance their expertise and diversity to ensure that you receive the widest range of expertise, experience and insight possible from your training team.
Applying newly learned skills from this course made an impact on my leadership style, bringing me closer to my aspirations and people around me!
Jorune Sakalauskaite | Postdoc
Vilnius University
The course has been a game changer in my leadership journey! Empowering me with crucial aspects like team management and conflict resolution.
Isis N. O. Souza | Assistant Professor
University of Rio de Janeiro