RESULT
After this training course participants will have learned how to:
- Adjust their leadership style to specific situations
- Communicate effectively
- Give constructive feedback
- Supervise the planning
- Coaching the writing process
- Deal with cultural differences
CONTENT
- Supervisors are expected to operate in a complex situation: PhD students have to develop their creativity, the student is expected to achieve this in a set time frame of three or four years, the student is an employee as well as a student, and finally, the supervisor is a coach as well as an assessor.
- Discussing the model of Situational Leadership is an important subject in the training. A good coach is aware of her or his own strong and weak points in supervising others, and has a range of supervision strategies. They can choose a supervision strategy depending on the situation and the PhD student, enabling the student to solve problems independently as much as possible, and complete the PhD trajectory in a pleasant atmosphere and within the required time frame.
- Using a system for planning a PhD project is a subject in the program (see our website www.projectmanagementforphds.com).
- We will also discuss which strategies can be used to help PhD students with the writing process.