Individual coaching from an external coach provides support in demanding professional and personal development and change phases.  The University of Oldenburg provides funding to offer support to professors in accomplishing their many different tasks in the form of external coaching. The PEOE department has contacts to coaches with university experience and will put you in touch with the right coach following a one-to-one discussion with you. You arrange the sessions with your coach yourself, and the content of your sessions is also exclusively a matter for you and your coach and is treated in strict confidence. Once you have completed your coaching, you will be asked to provide some brief feedback for in-house evaluation. We recommend coaching to newly appointed staff in particular, but it is also available for experienced professors. The flyer contains more information.

Newly appointed professors at the university are confronted with similar goals and challenges, despite all their professional differences, when it comes to orientating themselves in their new, diverse area of responsibility and finding a balance between research, teaching, leadership and administration. Collegial counselling for mutual support, networking and creative idea development can provide valuable impulses.

The University of Oldenburg offers groups of three to five people who have been newly appointed in the past two years the opportunity of moderated peer coaching. The participants meet approximately every three months on mutually agreed dates to discuss their own concerns and experiences in and with their own situation. The group generates the topics itself and works on them with the support of an external moderator.

Peer coaching takes place in a confidential setting.

If you are interested in peer coaching, please contact pe-oe.fuehrung@uol.de. A new group will be set up as soon as a sufficient number of participants have registered.

In order to maintain good relations with your own team, to strengthen the sense of unity within the team, and to be able to handle upcoming or recent changes or to tackle major tasks together, regular or one-off, situation-specific team development measures are useful. As part of the “Leadership in Academia” programme, coaching sessions for academic teams can be supported financially and in terms of preparation and follow-up. The premise is that the training or coaching is intended to clarify responsibilities in teams, avoid and resolve conflicts or support change processes. If you would like to use this service, please get in touch with the PEOE department at the start of the planning process.

Active dialogue and close contact between academia and administration is essential for constructive and productive collaboration within the university. Once a year, Vice President for Administration and Finance, Mr. Stahlmann, hosts the “Academia and Administration Assembly”. Professors from the University of Oldenburg meet with managers from the administration and numerous service centres, who are on hand for questions, discussions and debates.