Project Management Leadership Skills

for research project leaders with project management know-how

Objectives

• Enhancing project management know-how in research projects and similar undertakings such as dissertations
• Guidelines for constructive collaboration in projects
• Applying knowledge acquired to one’s own project (transfer tasks between course blocks)
  
  

Target group

• Assistants, senior assistants, doctoral students and scientists working actively on a project
• This workshop is primarily designed for scientists at ETH Zurich
• Staff at ETH and university research institutes will be admitted if there are free places
  
  

Contents

• Communication in a project environment
• Team set-up and team building
• Leadership and collaboration
• Managing resistence and conflicts
• Project evaluation
• Discussion of specific questions relating to methods and collaboration, with reference to issues arising out of participants’ own projects
  
  

Requirements

Participants should be working on an approved project in the role of a project leader. Prior knowledge of project management methods and tools is expected.

Working methods

The workshop will feature brief theoretical inputs, exercises, tasks carried out in small groups, sharing experiences, and examining individual cases presented by participants. During the period between the two course blocks participants will be asked to carry out transfer tasks which will enable them to apply what they have learnt to their own projects.

Procedures and working methods in this course require participants to tackle problems in depth at both subject and personal levels, and depend upon participants contributing examples, issues and problems encountered in their own projects that are of interest to other scientists and doctoral candidates.

Note

This workshop can be run for specific departments or domains, if required.

Organisation

Personnel and Organisational Development, together with external speakers

Duration

Total 2 days; available as entire package only.

The workshop is divided into two course blocks of 1 day each, held over a period of 1 month.
Transfer tasks will be conducted between the two workshop blocks.

Location / Dates

see course dates

Cost

CHF 200.00

Registration

The number of participants is limited. Registrations will be accepted in the order in which they are received. Once registered, participants may no longer withdraw from the workshop and are obliged to attend the entire course.

Information on course content

Dr. Olga Pardo Escher

Dr. Martina Schallamon

Information on course registration

Claudia Heinze