Personal development for academics
Focus on the person behind the academic
Personal development
Erasmus Women in Academia
Women like you have entered academia in significant numbers for forty years. However, although women do reach senior leadership positions, progress is slow and they have yet not reached parity with men.
The EWA progamme has been designed by the Erasmus Center for Women and Organisations in close cooperation with the Diversion & Inclusion Office of Erasmus University, to help you become more effective in developing your career within the academic environment. The programme will be primarily delivered by academics who have an understanding of both the nature of gender bias and the unique characteristics of the world of academia. Key themes of the modules are leadership, effective communication, the power of networks, negotiating and navigating the political playing field.
For: Female assistant and associate professors at EUR
Excel Advanced
This training covers the following topics: functions and formulas, pivot tables and graphs, databases and macros.
Feeling stressed? Get moving - stress, stress management & physical exercise
This course equips you with general, evidence-based knowledge about stress, stress consequences and stress management methods to enable you to mind your health in stressful situations more effectively. When discussing stress management methods, the course will in particular focus on the power of physical exercise as stress regulation mechanism and provide advice on how to get/remain physically active.
Intervision for Associate professors
Intervision is a valuable way to discuss cases from your work setting with colleagues with a similar position. Participants learn from each other by asking questions, sharing experiences, supporting each other and by deep reflection.
Manage your inbox
In this short practical training, you will learn how to regain control over your emails, to process your email correspondence quicker and get a better overview of your tasks.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness meditation is a way to focus your attention on what is there at the present moment. By being more conscious about how you react to a situation emotionally and physically, you can identify stress quicker. That gives you the chance to handle it more consciously instead of reacting out of habit or reflex and thus to respond to difficult situations in a more adequate way.
Personal leadership
In this training, we invite you to uncover and examine your own talents, ambitions and limitations in an experiential manner. We will establish a link between your personal goals and professional challenges.
Time management
Bursting mailboxes and to-do lists, unexpected distractions, unrealistic planning and demanding environment: “simply” doing your work is probably a daily challenge for you. Your own procrastination, perfectionism or uncontrolled helpfulness possibly contribute to it. In three intervision and training sessions, you will increase your self-knowledge, experience what is important to you and get insights in how to influence your environment.
Career trainings
Below you`ll find trainings you can follow as part of your career development and/or suggest to your employees as a supervisor.
Job crafting
Job crafting means making adjustments to create a better fit between your work and yourself as a person. In this workshop, you will learn about the effect of a good work perception and how you can influence it. In doing so we combine scientific insights on happy working with practically oriented components targeted at your (personal) development within your work.
LinkedIn
The goal of this training is to gain insight into the possibilities of LinkedIn. Getting to know the market better and becoming less dependent on available vacancies by exploring the market proactively, discovering interesting (unknown) organisations, finding and following the right contact persons, and having a technically easily findable profile so that you can also be found by the market.
Personal branding & networking
In this training, you learn to network in a (more) conscious way. You begin with naming your added value and ambition. Then you learn to communicate about yourself clearly and efficiently in a conversation, at work and on social media.
Your next step
Your Next Step answers questions such as: Who am I? What can I do and what do I want? How do I get there? In this training, you will create an up-to-date self-image, formulate your next step in your career and write a plan to realise your wish.