On January 9, 2013, I gave the keynote talk at the “Meet the Female Faculty” Event at the Ruhr-University of Bochum. The Equal Opportunities Office and the Internal Continuing Education Office at Bochum team up to offer a special program for women scientists to meet each other and talk about their careers. I’ll present the …
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Authentic at work II: We are what we do
We influence our work, clearly. But our work also influences us. How often do we talk about this fact? How often do we talk about the question, “What kind of a person will this job turn me into?” When we counsel young people about their career futures, do we focus on this aspect? What kind …
Are we taken at face value at work? Or is something else going on?
Reflect for a moment: Are you where you want to be in your work life? Do you have the feeling that you’re not taken at face value, that you’re not coming across as you are? Do you have ideas about why that’s happening? Do you have solutions for yourself? The Organization “Women in Business” at …
Leading by allowing for intrinsic motivation
practice a leadership style that, just today, earned me some praise from my team. It’s always great to get a compliment, of course, but what I’m doing should be nothing special — it’s proven to be more effective than traditional „punish-or-reward“ methods. I don’t check minute-by-minute who’s in which office, doing what. I know that …
Creating new meanings for the roles of “Husband” and “Wife”
ecently two young people in my life, one a former student and the other a friend, one in Germany and one in the United States, wrote comments to me about their recent respective very new marriages. Both made the same comment: “it feels strange to be a wife / it feels strange to be a …
