Powerful online courses
for your PhD/Post-Doc group

​•   Comprehensive range    •   Flexible and impactful
•   Complementary  •   Combinable  • ​   Cutting edge
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Live and Interactive Online Seminars ​

Online Seminar List:
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​For details, click on the topic area
​you are interested in below:
Academic & SCIENTIFIC Writing in English
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Academic & Scientific Writing
​in English
Duration: 3 x 3-hour modules
  • ​​Appropriate levels of formality
  • Tips for writing productivity
  • Nailing the problem of structure
  • Achieving a good ‘flow’ of ideas and expression
  • Careful word choice for greater impact
  • Editing: Accuracy,​ clarity, brevity and style
  • Understanding the most common mistakes
TIME & ACTIVITY MANAGEMENT,  MiNDFULNESS
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Time & Activity Management,
Prioritisation and Mindfulness
Duration: 2 x 3-hour Webinars
  • Time management techniques adapted to your individual needs
  • Find the right methods that fit  to your unique style of working
  • ​7 powerful methods of prioritising your to-do list
  •  Management of your mindset, activities  and relationships for maximum productivty
  • Moving your most deeply cherished goals forward on a daily basis
ESSENTIAL SKILLS
DIGITAL LEADERSHIP       •      DESIGN THINKING         •      AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMeNT 
Agile Project Management   (APM)
Duration: 2 x 3-hour Webinars
  • ​​​When and how to use APM
  • Comparison with classic project management
  • Empower autonomy, freedom and creativity in your project team
  • Develop an Agile team culture
  • APM techniques: e.g. Sprint, Scrum
  • Stay focussed even when reacting to fast-changing project scenarios
  • Fits with modern transformative leadership​
Other webinars in this topic area: Click for details

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
​CONFLICT MANAGEMENT      •    NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATION
Solution-Oriented Conflict Management
Duration: 2 x 3-hour Webinars
  • ​Strategies for effectively handling conflict situations in the academic world
  • Changing or ending unsatisfactory relationships
  • Typical conflict situations
  • Relationships with supervisors, clients and colleagues
  • Intercultural competence in solving conflicts
  • Diversity-competences
  • Strategies for dealing with unfair communication
  • ​Implementing win-win solutions successfully
PRESENTATION SKILLS (ONLiNE / LIVE)
CONFERENCES & POSTERS      •        MODERATION  SKILLS       •       PICO PRESENTATION
Please note:
​Participants will make a short practice presentation as part of all presentation webinars.  
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Successful Slide Presentation
​in English
Duration: 3 x 3-hour Webinars
​or 4 x 3-hour Webinars
​(depending on numbers of participants)
  • ​Top Tips from a native-speaking presentation professional​
  • Writing & structuring for impact
  • How to begin with confidence and flair
  • Voice and body language coaching
  • ​Developing a key message
  • Techniques to overcome nerves
  • Powerful slide design
  • Speaking tips for international audiences
  • How to close effectively and memorably​
LIVE & VIRTUAL NETWORKING
​CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Make contacts that count:
​Live, Virtual and Online Networking
​& Personal Branding
Duration: 2 x 3-hour Webinars
  • The purpose of a network
  • Growing the network: how to approach a prospective partner
  • Typical problems in networks
  • Post-corona techniques: how to network at a social distance
  • Use of online networks: linked in, academic networks, Twitter and other social media​
  • The advantages of giving as a professional work-style​

New Online Seminars for 2023:

   
*NEW*    ​FUTURE SKILLS FOR LEADERSHIP & TEAMWORK

21st Century team leadership and team membership –
Re-defining our roles for future-fitness
    Future Skills
​    for Leadership and Teamwork
      Duration: 2 x 3-hour modules
  • ​What does leadership and teamwork in the academic world mean? What is different?
  • What is classical and future-oriented leadership in a VUCA-world?
  • What are future skills for leaders?
  • How to build a productive project team (3 key tools)
  • How do I tap into the differences of the team members (Diversity -  e.g, generations,  nationalities, culture) in a productive way?
  • Information and communication in the team in a remote working team (meetings and tools)
  • Non-hierarchical conflict solution using the win-win approach
   
*NEW*    ​RESILIENCE: BULLET-PROOF STRESS RESISTANCE
      Resilience: Bullet-Proof Stress Resistance
        How to Develop and Keep a Positive Mindset in Turbulent Times
       Duration: 2 x 3-hour modules
  • What does resilience and change competence mean?
  • How do I proactively change the way I think?
  • Typical reactions to change (for yourself or team) 
  • What are the opportunities and risks of crisis situations?
  • 4 future scenarios and preparatory planning 
  • Maintaining motivation and the ability to work productively
  • What are further resources that I can tap into?

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Svenja Neupert
Founder of Kompetenzia International
Svenja Neupert has extensive experience in many fields in addition to academia: science, industry, NGOs and administration.  She has been described as an inspirational bridge between the academic and entrepreneurial worlds.

Svenja provides transformative yet highly practical online seminars, coaching and organisational development and her 30 years' experience provides the material for deeply engaging public speaking on forward-thinking topics. 

At the heart of these topics are the internal questions:
  • What do I really want in life?
  • How can I recognise my core talents?
  • How do I find a lucrative business that matches my deepest passions?

Svenja offers her thematic formats in German and English  all across Germany, and internationally.
In her unique empathetic and flexible style, she helps to create workable  syntheses where previously there were only conflicting goals and insurmountable obstacles.

Svenja's Online Seminars:
​For details, click on the topic area you are interested in below:

​THe LIFE AND CAREER NAVIGATOR

The Life and Career Navigator
​Duration: 2 x 4-hour Webinars

  • Individualised combinations of career scenarios
  • Clarity of direction and life vision 
  • Dynamic planning methods - projecting goals into the unknown 
  • Conventional and unconventional career strategies
  • Creating a personal career-specific integrated navigation plan​​

UNCONVENTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR FINANCIAL SAFETY FOR SCIENTISTS
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Unconventional Strategies for
​Financial Safety for Scientists
Duration: 2 x 4-hour modules
  • ​What mindsets are required for unconventional concepts of financial security?
  • How do I recognise and change my mindset?
  • What passive sources of income
    ("money machines") can I develop?
  • Which one is suitable for me and my life plan?
  • How can I build it up, what can I delegate?
  • What about my time management?  Can I initially build up financial security alongside my academic-scientific career?    

NEW WORK PROCESSES AND STRUCTURES IN SCIENCE
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New Work Processes and
​Structures in Science
Duration: 2 x 4-hour modules

  • ​What does future-oriented leadership mean?
    ​(Paradigm shift)
  • Self-leadership, team leadership and leadership of organisations
  • How to build a motivated and functioning team (team roles and personality)
    under hybrid conditions
  • How to build productive information and communication structures
  • Checklists and management tools (delegation, feedback, annual review).
  • Transformational leadership for scientific organisations
  • Future scenarios of new work in academia​​
Svenja's seminars are an introduction to her unique approach and passion: helping people find or, if necessary, create the ideal future for themselves, one that fits to their individual talents and the skills that they have acquired along their life path.

In addition to seminars and public talks, Svenja offers support programmes of between 3-12 months in which one's own deep personality comes to light and a plan is created for an inspiring and engaging future in which your most cherished wishes are realised.
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About us

Svenja Neupert Dip. Paedagogin
Founder, Kompetenzia International

Svenja has more than 30 years' experience of delivering inspirational coaching, seminars and speeches.

​Svenja has a true visionary perspective, which, uniquely, is strongly anchored in pragmatic action plans. The result for her clients is achieving sustainable results with a multitude of ways to integrate life-goals into daily life.

An essential conviction for Svenja is that everyone has an inner compass - a purpose which gives him or her a lifelong orientation, and which especially equips one to cope with challenges in times of uncertainty.

Very often the view of this ‘inner compass’ seems to be obscured by daily workload and time pressure.  Sometimes people do not dare to ask themselves essential questions.

It is Svenja's passion, and purpose, to encourage and support you with just such questions.
Mark Edwards Specialist in English Communication
Network Partner

​Mark has been working with doctoral students in Germany to help them transform their communication In English for more than eleven years.

He began his career by co-founding and operating a successful marketing and graphic design business.

Following this, Mark gained more than fifteen years' experience of working in blue-chip companies (British Petroleum, GlaxoSmithKline) and as a National Training Manager for a network of over 300 businesses.

Since 2010, Mark has been successfully delivering specialised English courses in Germany in association with Kompetenzia International Clients include major universities and research institutes in Berlin and all over Germany.
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​His approachable presentation style adds a touch of warmth and geniality to the most serious of topics.
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Public Speaking / Hosting

Work/Life Balance in Science
Click here to see a short video on the Geo:X conference on Work/Life balance, which was hosted by Svenja Neupert & Mark Edwards
Presenting in English
​to International Audiences
Click here to see a five-minute excerpt from our lecture at the Hasso Plattner Institute.
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The Soul of Success
Click here to see ' Der innere Kompass zu Erfolg' - The Inner Compass to Success, delivered at the Didacta conference.
​This talk can also be delivered in English​
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