Lateral Leadership

TitleTimeRoomTeacher
Lateral Leadership06.02.2024 09:00 - 17:00 (Tue)TUM Graduate School: Boltzmannstraße 17, 85748 Garching bei München, Room 101Judith Bergner
Lateral Leadership07.02.2024 09:00 - 17:00 (Wed)TUM Graduate School: Boltzmannstraße 17, 85748 Garching bei München, Room 101Judith Bergner
Keywords: 
Leading without using power, transformational leadership, shared leadership, providing identification and commitment with inspiring interactions
Course Description: 

The typical situation for doctoral candidates working in complex environments means: being responsible for a project result and relying on partners without any power to direct them. It means leading without being the boss. In order to achieve results, they have to be self confident and manage themselves. They also have to have socio-communicative skills and management skills. All of those will be adressed and trained in the seminar.

After the course participants will be able to keep themselves and a team motivated and inspired. They will understand the difference of working in a complicated or complex situation and they understand what kind of leadership complexity requires. They will know how to moderate a meeting to a solid consensus. They will understand the ingredients of powerful feedback which allows people to grow and helps to build strong relationships. They will gain confidence concerning their leadership and maintain a joyful working atmosphere.

Course aims: 
  • On a personal level: self confidence in responsible positions
  • On the level on management skills: certainty in applying adequate methods in meetings and workshops
  • On the level of social and communication skills: knowing how to engage, empower and align people in complex work situations for valueable goals
Teaching methods: 

Short inputs, simulations, exercises, video-clips

This course fits doctoral candidates in the following phase: 

During the doctorate | at the end of the doctorate

Participation requirements: 

None.

Technical requirements: 

Participants need to bring their notebook.

Course preparation: 

None.

Additional information: 

None.

What participants say about this course: 
  • It gave very helpful and interesting informations for my future career
  • Balanced combination of theory and apply the theory in excercises
  • Fantastic coach with Judith. All the different exercises we did together in the group allowed us to see and experience ourselves the challenges one might face within the context of lateral leadership. This was certainly valuable since it proved certain assumptions.
Category: 
Fachübergreifende Veranstaltung
Event type: 
Seminar/Workshop
Organizer: 
Graduate School Geschäftsstelle
Responsibility for event: 
Hauptverantwortung
Format: 
In Präsenz
Co-Organization: 
TUM Graduate School
Course Language: 
EN
Course Capacity (Max): 
12
Course capacity (Min): 
1
Duration in hours: 
14
Financial contribution: 
40 Euro
Trainer: 
Judith Bergner

As a consultant Judith Bergner had to learn how to engage and motivate staff members of the client to cooperate and participate in a project voluntarily. Since she did not have power over the project team, she learnt how to lead without using power. That is basically what lateral leadership is all about. The people involved will say in the end: „We did it completely on our own initiative!“