08. and 23. April 2026: Expanding Your Leadership Toolkit: Four Frames for Effective Leading with Prof. Heather Hofmeister
Join our interactive online Lunch Talks designed specifically for early career researchers within the SSP 1991 community. These sessions aim to enhance your leadership competencies—an essential factor for retaining diverse talent and achieving career success. Prof. Dr. Heather Hofmeister will once again be leading the events. We previously welcomed her as a speaker at three Lunch Talks in 2024. This workshop aims to support early-career researchers who have completed or are nearing completion of their PhDs. Experienced researchers looking to enhance their leadership skills are also very welcome to join us!
Series Overview: *Expanding Your Leadership Toolkit: Four Frames for Effective Leading*
Based on Bolman and Deal’s influential model, this series explores four leadership frames—political, structural, human resource, and symbolic—and how applying them enhances leadership effectiveness, creativity, and flexibility.
Save the dates for our two upcoming sessions:
09 April 2026 from 12-1:30 pm: Introduction and first two frames (structural frame, human resource frame)
23 April 2026 from 12-1:30 pm: Two More Frames of Leadership (political frame, symbolic frame)
You will learn:
• Which frame is already your comfort zone, through which you make decisions and interpret others’ behavior.
• How lunch talk participants’ leadership communication and orientation have been influenced by past experiences.
• How expanding your repertoire of frames offers new insights into problems and give new tools to lead better.
• How the frames can help you lead, inspire, and motivate team members who have diverse personalities, views, needs, and backgrounds.
Join us for an engaging, reflective, and practical exploration of leadership — tailored for early career academics. Experienced researchers are welcome!
For further information and the link for attending the sessions, please contact tina.niemann@uni-hamburg.de.