Future Life and Career Plans: Priorities, work-life-balance and a good life

TitleTimeRoomTeacher
Future Life and Career Plans: Priorities, work-life-balance and a good life02.05.2024 09:00 - 17:00 (Thu)TUM Graduate School: Boltzmannstraße 17, 85748 Garching bei München, Raum 102Ursula Wendeberg
Future Life and Career Plans: Priorities, work-life-balance and a good life03.05.2024 09:00 - 17:00 (Fri)TUM Graduate School: Boltzmannstraße 17, 85748 Garching bei München, Raum 102Ursula Wendeberg
Keywords: 
Status quo, Procrastination, Prioritisation, Work-life-balance, Guideline
Course Description: 

Do you sometimes struggle with consistently approaching upcoming tasks or decisions for the next professional and private steps? This course offers the chance to get to know the most important orientation factors for complex life and career planning: your own strengths & values as well as lasting ideas about your own life. It uses concrete exercises on talent analysis, prioritization, values reflection and work-life balance. It summarizes the findings of all exercises in a first draft of a so-called "life statement", with which future decisions about life and career can be made more easily.

Course aims: 
  • Self-, strengths-, values-awareness
  • Clarity regarding own life and career goals
  • Consistent goal orientation
Teaching methods: 

Short descriptive thematic inputs, self-reflection, exchange in small groups, discussion rounds, experience-oriented & interactive exercises on self-perception and perception of others, analysis of life paths of others, collegial counseling.

This course fits doctoral candidates in the following phase: 

At the beginning of the doctorate │ during the doctorate │ at the end of the doctorate

Participation requirements: 

None.

Technical requirements: 

None.

Course preparation: 

None.

Additional information: 

None.

What participants say about this course: 
  • The exercises helped to be able to use the methods in real life instead of just knowing they exist.
  • I liked how calm the instructor was and how helpful she was.
  • Ursula turned this course into one of the most useful courses on "soft skills" I ever attended.
Category: 
Fachübergreifende Veranstaltung
Event type: 
Seminar/Workshop
Organizer: 
Graduate School Geschäftsstelle
Responsibility for event: 
Hauptverantwortung
Format: 
In Präsenz
Course Language: 
EN
Course Capacity (Max): 
7
Course capacity (Min): 
1
Duration in hours: 
14
Financial contribution: 
40 Euro
Trainer: 
Ursula Wendeberg

Ursula Wendeberg, educator, political scientist, historian M.A., is a freelance trainer with a focus on life and career planning, team development and ADHD. She works with a method mix of systemic consulting, superlearning and theme-centered interaction (TCI) for universities, companies and public institutions - and is convinced that an open, appreciative and humorous atmosphere in the course significantly increases the learning success.