Are you looking for effective online courses
for your PhD or Post-Doc group?
•  Live and interactive webinars
•   Comprehensive range
•   Flexible and impactful
•   Cutting edge information​

Online Seminar List:
​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, Prioritisation & 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
AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
DIGITAL LEADERSHIP
​DESIGN THINKING 
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​


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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.

She has been providing transformative yet highly practical training, coaching and organisational development for 30 years and is an engaging public speaker on forward-thinking topics. 

At the heart of these topics are the 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 special seminar offers include:
  • Life and career navigation for a scientific or non-scientific future
  • Development of a positive attitude and resilience in turbulent times
  • Financial security and self-determination for people who want to stay in science
  • Design thinking and other creative methods for scientists and non-profit projects
 
Svenja's seminars are an introduction to her unique approach and passion: helping people find or, if necessary, create the ideal career future for themselves, one that fits their individual talents and the skills they have acquired along their life path so far.

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 business is developed from this inspiration.
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From idea; to incubation; to business  - in three months.​   Click on the image below for details.

About us

Svenja Neupert Dip. Paedagogin
Founder, Kompetenzia International

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

​Svenja's unique visionary perspective, which is at the same time completely practical, produces sustainable results with a multitude of ways to integrate your 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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