Career Workshop III: Effective Decision-Making

Course Description

How to effectively take career and life decisions? Decisions that make sense and feel good. Do you sometimes struggle with taking decisions or with finding the right mode of interaction towards decision-making? This workshop invites you to step out of your routine, to get to know yourself better. We explore your intuition and how it can be combined with your analytical competence in decision-making. We refer to latest scientific insights, exchange experiences and expand your decision-making toolbox for professional and personal development.

Learning Objectives

After this workshop, participants will

• Be aware of the main factors for taking “good decisions”
• Know themselves better, i.e. their personality (OCEAN model, Barrick & Mount, 1991), drivers (Hoffman et al., 2017), personal qualities (Mejer & Meijaard, 2018) and values/goals (Three worlds-model, Schmid, 2006)
• Be more aware and in touch with their intuition to speed-up and align head and heart in decision-making; and be aware of potential pitfalls when using intuition for decision-making (Kahneman, 2013)
• Have learnt about and tested new decision-making tools: the affect balance (Storch, 2013), microtheses (Berg and de Jong, 2013), and the NLP timeline (Bandler and Grinder, 1981; Bandler, 2008).
• Have had the opportunity to share own tools, experiences and questions with others in a “marketplace”, thus getting input on what interests them most.
• Have expanded their professional network.

Lecturer

Dr. Mirja Michalscheck (https://www.lemon3coaching.com) is a certified systemic coach, teaching transferable skills courses at the University of Basel, the ETH Zurich, the Berlin University Alliance (GER), and the University of Freiburg (GER). Mirja has worked as a consultant for international organizations like the UN FAO, the Asian Development Bank and the European Commission. She currently works as a Postdoctoral Researcher on Innovation Scaling for Agroscope in Zurich and is currently founding a start-up.

Participants

University of Basel PhD students of the Faculty of Medicine and of Swiss TPH.

Preference is given to those registered to PPHS or Biomedical Engineering

Group size: maximum 16 participants 

Workload & credits
30h course work (attending the course + self-study)
Individual online coaching session (1 hr)
1 ECTS

The setup of the course requires 100% attendance. PPHS will charge a fee of CHF 50 in case of cancellation later than 2 weeks before the course starts, or if you don’t attend the course.