Entrepreneurial skills: Facilitating collaborative innovation

Content	Entrepreneurship and research have a lot in common. Both ask you to venture into the unknown to develop new things – be it novel insights and knowledge or new products and services. Successful innovators in both worlds are great at inspiring a team to support their vision. They facilitate collaboration with multiple experts or stakeholders to make progress because they need inputs from people with very different backgrounds and expertise for their project to take off. This course equips you with entrepreneurial skills that are useful to both your research right now, and valuable on the job market later. You will learn how to facilitate better collaboration. The goal: No more meetings that drag on forever, but achieve little in the end. In this course, you will learn how to use established facilitation methods to enable good communication and collaboration in teams across functions and different backgrounds. The methods you will learn will enable you to step up and lead regardless of whether you are in a formal leadership position or not. They will help you foster modern business and research environments, in which teams of experts with different backgrounds work together on eye level when it is key that everyone contributes their part to a collaborative innovation process. We will train hands-on techniques that help you foster collaboration within a project group or team, integrate the perspectives of partners and stakeholders, and facilitate the generation of new ideas. And we’ll also look into tools for mutual counseling and problem-solving if a project gets stuck.
Objectives	Participants learn to facilitate innovation processes so that they generate mutual understanding and alignment between collaboration partners, and create a base for learning together and iteratively improving and refining research and development approaches and results.
Instructor	Silvia Maier ,Causable
Target participants	Early career researchers of all disciplines
Dates	12 June 2024 9:00 - 17:30h 26 June 2024 9:00 - 17:30h
Location	RAA-E-30
ECTS credit (PhD)	1 ECTS credit (has to be recognized by your faculty)