Gießener Graduiertenzentrum Naturwissenschaften und Psychologie (GGN)

Kursbeschreibung:

Motivation and objectives:
Successful grant proposal writing is a fundamental basis to fund a career in research. There are plenty of national and international funding programmes with different funding schemes. Each scheme has its individual context and thematic focus, eligibility and funding rules, submission and evaluation process, and evaluation criteria. Thus, the detailed features and aspects of a successful proposal in one funding scheme are naturally differing from those of a successful proposal in another funding scheme. However, the process of how to work out these details is a common denominator to the different funding schemes. It requires skills way beyond the ability to work out a research idea in detail.
Therefore, this workshop focuses on

a) how to develop your idea for a project into a sound work programme,

b) how to match it to the requirements of the funding programme and

c) how to facilitate the communication with the reviewer by presenting your complex ideas in an easy-to-understand way.


To achieve this, we will try out the RaumZeit Toolkit for designing and communicating your research project convincingly by working on your own research project. This may be a new idea for a real grant proposal or your current research project.

Besides, you will obtain a lot of background information on different funding programmes, evaluation processes and potential pitfalls.

Die Referentin:
After obtaining her PhD in Astrophysics, Dr. Sabine Preusse, decided to quit academia in 2006 and move on to the project management of European Funded Research projects in the Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum. Besides writing grant proposals and being a project manager in the field of production technologies, she further trained herself as a business economist (IWW) and a professional business trainer. With this she founded her own company RaumZeit e.K. Coaching Training Beratung in 2011 and is now (also as a professional business coach) supporting researchers of all levels and disciplines in grant proposal writing, the implementation of research projects, dissemination and exploitation of project results, and Open Educational Resources. Since 2011 Sabine Preusse has given more than 150 two-day workshops on grant proposal writing and more than 80 coachings with respect to grant proposal writing, design of research projects and career for young researchers, postdocs and professors.

REQUIREMENTS: This interactive seminar is for all those who have their content ready but want to convey it more effectively, increase personal presence and communicate in a genuine, inspiring way.

PARTICIPANTS: Recommended for University employees, post-docs, prae-docs, researchers and lecturers

BENEFITS:
• Clear, inspiring speech for presenting complex, technical/scientific data and research
• Take-home tools, exercises and warm ups for physical and vocal presence
• More confidence, engagement and genuine connection with listeners
• English presentation skills - story telling techniques: pacing, dramatic line, stresses, pitch
and tone

CONTENT:
• Voice, embodiment, body language, facial expression, breath, posture
• Clear speech for complex data – diction, enunciation, tone, timbre, pace, pauses
• Techniques from performers and top-speakers for inspiring speaking and telling your story
• Vocal potential – discover the power of your own voice

SHORT CV - PRITI COLES:
London born, English Native Speaker – speech & presentation trainer; voice expert
Over 15 years as an international coach/trainer in business, academia, science and research

University Trainer: University of Vienna; IST Institute of Science and Technology, Austrian Academy of Sciences – CeMM; WU University of Economics and Business, Vienna; TU Technical University Wien; TU Darmstadt; Over 2 decades - International opera soloist career, actor, concert singer, recording artist with renowned companies and orchestras throughout Europe.

Priti speaks fluent German and Dutch as well as English

Kursbeschreibung:

Ziel:
Kostendruck, Verschiebungen im Wettbewerbsumfeld und sich ändernde Kundenanforderungen zwingen Unternehmen zu ständiger Überprüfung und Adaption ihrer Strategien und stellen damit ihre Führungskräfte oft vor scheinbar unlösbare Konflikte und Probleme. Es gilt, ungeachtet früher einmal erworbener fachlicher Qualifikationen Problemsituationen sachlich zu analysieren, daraus kreative Lösungen und konkrete Maßnahmen abzuleiten und diese im Team effektiv und effizient umzusetzen – schneller, qualitativ besser und wirtschaftlich.

Der Kurs gibt eine Einführung in die systemische Six Sigma-Methodik des Change Managements und vermittelt Grundbegriffe von Lean Production und Lean Management. Unterstützt durch Praxisbeispiele und Fallstudien lernen die Teilnehmer, komplexe Problemstellungen einzuordnen, und gewinnen Einblicke in die Wirkungsweise, die Vorzüge, aber auch Grenzen der Six Sigma-Methodik. Die vermittelten Kenntnisse und Fähigkeiten entsprechen einem „Six Sigma Yellow Belt Level“.

Inhalt:
Es werden die grundsätzlichen, branchenunabhängigen und ganzheitlichen Elemente der Six Sigma-Methodik und ihre Verknüpfung mit dem Lean-Konzept erläutert sowie Strukturen, Rollen und Vorgehensweise für eine erfolgreiche Projektarbeit im Unternehmen dargestellt.

Der Kurs vermittelt Methoden und den Einsatz konkreter Werkzeuge im DMAIC-Zyklus:
- Projekte definieren und abgrenzen
- Kundenbedürfnisse und -anforderungen erfassen und spezifizieren
- Schwachstellen mittels statistischer Methoden quantifizieren
- Ursache-Wirkungsbeziehungen analysieren als faktenorientierte Basis der Verbesserung (Datenanalyse, Prozessanalyse)
- Kreativ Lösungen finden (Brainstorming) und daraus die besten Lösungen auswählen
- Lean-Werkzeuge zur Prozessoptimierung einsetzen
- Maßnahmen erfolgreich umsetzen (Milestoneplanung)
- Erfolg der Maßnahmen monitoren