2017-05-31: Growing your leadership skills - exploring the key communication skills that will continously make you grow as a leader, as becoming a skilled leader is a life-long learning process. This training (12:30 - 4:30 am, O4) offers tools to continously refine and improve your communication skills and your effectiveness when leading and engaging others. We will experiment with different tools by using concrete examples from your working context. [www.bordeleau.de]

2017-05-04: For the sixth time the SFB 858 hosts the industry conference "Forschung der Chemischen Industrie (FoChIn)" on May 4th 2017 within the lecture hall building of the chemical institutes at the WWU Münster. Several recognised research experts from international companies give insight into their daily business, research strategies and latest developments. Furthermore, PhD students from the Department of Chemistry & Pharmacy contribute with talks on their latest results as well, making this meeting a perfect merger between industry and academic research. The lectures are flanked by a poster session covering all aspects from the diverse disciplines present at chemistry in Münster. Guests are welcome!
(Downloads: Poster [pdf, print (4.2 MB)] - Poster [jpeg, screen (283 KB)])

2017-03-29: Carsten Cramer, Director Sales & Marketing at the Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA gives an insight into the marketing of the BVB with a lecture entitled "Pure Passion – The fascinating brand Borussia Dortmund" at 5:15 pm in lecture hall C2. Guests are welcome. The lecture is part of the tutorial lectures series (Ringvorlesung), jointly held with the IRTG 2027.

2017-03-08: Leading and Influencing with more Presence - How to represent your interests with confidence. This hands-on and interactional workshop (9:00 am - 4:30 pm) offers the opportunity to practive the skills needed to convey a clear and confidence message to influential partners. We will mainly focus developing the following skills: 1.) how to set clear goals, 2.) how to listen carefully to better understand the context and language needed, 3.) how to convey a clear, consistent and confident message for the partner. [www.bordeleau.de]

2017-02-10 / Individual Appointments: What kind of advantages arise from recording presentations and examine the videotaped situation regarding self-reflection and feedback? In situations, where self- and external perception differ a lot, video feedback might be a helpful method to make the perceptions match because the “blind spot” - describing behaviors and patterns, which are unknown to the speaker himself but obvious to everybody else - is going to become smaller. Due to this, the influence of a developed video feedback method on powerpoint presentations is tested. PhD students of the SFB 858 present a short part of their current research projects. Main target of the work is to study the development process of the speaker, the layout criteria of a “good” presentation and the feedback process, which is analyzed in a pre-/posttest design by interviews, video records and questionnaires.
[project Z03]

2017-09-23 (Workshop of the IRTG/SFB858 in Billerbeck): Is there something special about presenting scientific content in general and chemical content in particular? Why do chemists often do not feel comfortable with corporate designed presentation style settings?
In the second part of the lecture series the following question will be discussed: How do the requirements of our scientific disciplines match widely accepted demands on e.g. presentations? How can we decide which content may be left out, how can other items be emphasized? What are the advantages and drawbacks of animations? Is there latent information, e.g. considering the use of colour, letters, background? Contradictory examples will be given for illustration, also discussing subjective viewpoints.

2016-03-09: What are the secrets of success for the job interview? This training (3:oo pm, O4) offers an insight into the topics of presenting your own personality, the design of the application dossier, online applications, questions and pitfalls, as well as "dos and donts"at the job interview.

2014-07-09: The aim of the seminar "R&D Project Management - Key Tools for Chemists (f/m)" by Dr. Rainer Bürstinghaus (2:00 pm, seminar room A2) is to introduce chemistry grad students into the project management environment found in chemical industry. How may innovation result from exploration? Organization, proceedings and structure of projects will be discussed giving best practice examples. Finally, the role of the chemist in such projects will be illustrated.