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Professional Development at JMU

Leadership & Management

Leadership and management skills are of particular importance in the professional environment, as they significantly influence and promote interpersonal interaction and cooperation . Many of these competences have a positive effect on professional and methodological skills and therefore also on joint success.

The requirements in the working environment are complex: each person brings their own individual skills, characteristics and challenges. In our constantly changing and performance-orientated world, in which time is often a scarce resource, the importance of stable and reflective personalities is increasing.

Understanding leadership at the University of Würzburg

For many years, the university has been examining the leadership mandate and the leadership priorities of managers in science and in the science-supporting area.

The aim is to develop a shared understanding of leadership and a standardised leadership culture and to give leadership activities a comparable orientation.

These considerations resulted in the management guidelines for the university administration. The leadership guidelines create an awareness among employees and managers of the importance of "good" leadership for constructive and productive cooperation in everyday working life. At the same time, they provide a basis for action in management situations for people with personnel responsibility.

Our offers

Leadership programme LEAP 4 ECR for doctoral candidates and postdocs

  • Target group: Doctoral and postdoctoral researchers up to 4 years after their doctorate
  • Objective: Preparation for future leadership positions in science, business and society
  • Procedure: structured and supervised programme over 1-2 years with 80 work units from 6 modules
  • Start: April 2026

Annual review in the central administration

In 2021, the central administration has set itself a new framework for annual appraisals between managers and employees. All information (e.g. a guideline for conducting the meeting, a forum and further information) is available to employees from the Central Administration as well as all other interested parties at JMU in a WueCampus room.

to the WueCampus room "Jahresgepsräch"

Further guided tours at the University of Würzburg