Coaching and Mentoring Program

Coaching
Female doctoral and postdoctoral researchers benefit from a special coaching program. Group coaching sessions help to enhance overall planning skills and discuss general issues that women are confronted with in their professional life, whereas in individual coaching sessions more targeted aspects of personal career development are addressed.

Group coaching
The following group coaching sessions have been organized by GlobalFood:

• Authentic Interaction: How to avoid communication problems and strengthen your own role(s) with improvisation techniques (2020)
  Trainer: Lars Wätzold (comedy-company)
  
• Job market training for women - Networking, Negotiations, and Self-Esteem in a Professional Context (2019)
  Trainer: Dr. Anna Kreuzer
  
• Presentation training (2019)
  Trainer: Elisabeth Schick (evenbetter Managementseminare, M&A Prozessberatung)
  
• Successful and authentic self-marketing (2018)
  Trainer: Elisabeth Schick (evenbetter Managementseminare, M&A Prozessberatung)
  
• Authentic choices (2018)
  Trainer: Sharmishtha Dattagupta (dana coaching)
  
• Fostering Fruitful Connections: Networking on the academic and non-academic job market (2018)
  Trainer: Dr. Silke Oehrlein-Karpi
  
• Enhancing self-confidence (2018)
  Trainer: Sharmishtha Dattagupta (dana coaching)
  
• Empowering - How you can get what you want (2017)
  Trainer: Elisabeth Schick (evenbetter Managementseminare, M&A Prozessberatung)
  
• Work-Life-Balance: A Holistic Approach (2017)
  Trainer: Sharmishtha Dattagupta (dana coaching)
  
• Speak-out - voice-coaching for women (2017)
  Trainer: Gudrun Stockmann (Göttingen)
  
• Empowering - How you can get what you want (2016)
  Trainer: Elisabeth Schick (evenbetter Managementseminare, M&A Prozessberatung)
  
• Conflict Management - Constructive Communication in Difficult Situations (2016)
  Trainer: Kathrin Zach (Schulz von Thun-Institut)
  
• Successful and authentic self-marketing (2015)
  Trainer: Elisabeth Schick (evenbetter Managementseminare, M&A Prozessberatung)
  
• Career Management for Women (2014)
  Trainer: Dr. Silvie Klein-Franke (Ideas X Skills)
  
• Conflict Management - Constructive Communication in Difficult Situations (2013)
  Trainer: Kathrin Zach (Schulz von Thun-Institut)
  
• Leadership Skills - Leading in the Knowledge Society (2012)
  Trainer: Dr. Silvie Klein-Franke (Ideas X Skills)
  
• Career Management for Women (2012)
  Trainer: Dr. Silvie Klein-Franke (Ideas X Skills)
  

Individual coaching
Individual coaching is offered to all female doctoral and postdoctoral researchers. It is a promising way to ensure guidance and advice to questions related to the professional development. The coach can support the women being coached towards identifying and achieving specific (professional) goals. These include, among others, career planning, performance management and personal effectiveness, identifying strengths and weaknesses, assessing personal characteristics and needs, getting through times of crises, finding a work-life balance, interpersonal communication, dealing with conflict, building an effective team, etc. A list of potential coaches is available at the coordination office.



Mentoring

In addition to coaching, GlobalFood also takes part in the Short-term International Mentorship Programme (STIM) of the University of Göttingen.
STIM offers female GlobalFood members the opportunity to gain valuable experience abroad at an early point in their career and to connect with an internationally renowned personality as a mentor. Mentees will be able to expand their international network in order to ideally prepare themselves for their later career path. Usually, the mentorship exceeds the stay abroad so that the mentees can continue to benefit from their mentors' great experience as an established researcher. Ideally, the mentor would also visit the mentee in Göttingen.