Lead campus
Workshop for Supervisors (PSI)
Description
A one-day training course designed to help those directly supervising PhD students and postdocs to understand the basic principles and guidelines of the PSI Professional Development Support concept.
The course gives supervisors a good understanding of how to improve the support of PhD students and postdocs and how this will help the supervised person and the organization as a whole to achieve their goals.This course will be useful not only for new supervisors, but also for supervisors who have been in this position for some time. It offers them also the opportunity to network and exchange experiences among colleagues.
Content
- Importance of professional supervision
- Role as a supervisor
- Potential conflicts with role expectations
- Duties/Responsibilites/Challenges
- Basic communication skills
- Giving Feedback
- Annual progress review
Goals
The participants
- know the PSI concept and the guidelines for line managers and supervisors
- are aware of the responsibilities during the process and the challenges
- reflect on the different expectations towards their role
- feel prepared to give feedback and to conduct the annual progress review
- get the possibility to create a network among peers
Target audience
Staff scientists supervising PhD students or postdocs at PSI, or may do so in the future. Other registrations i.e. line managers can only be considered in case of spare capacity.
Further Information
For further information please contact the lead campus office:
Tel. +41 56 310 24 00 or email office@lead-campus.ch
Lead campus
Workshop for Supervisors (PSI)
Forschungsstrasse 111
5232 Villigen
Schweiz