Berlin Leadership Academy
The Berlin Leadership Academy (BLA) coordinates the Leadership development in the name of Berlin University Alliance. The BLA expands the leadership trainings and enhances it to strengthen the Alliance.
The BLA addresses high executive personnel and supports them to improve their leadership competences and to network with their colleagues from other Universities. The main goal is getting a shared managerial cognition.
Flagship programs of the Berlin Leadership Academy
The Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Freie Universität Berlin (FU), the Humboldt-University (HU) and the Technische Universität Berlin (TU) design new leadership development programs funded by the Berlin University Alliance to support the participants managing their challenges of human resources management: the programs include confident decision making in challenging situations (Charité), optimal handling with complex governance-structures (FU Berlin), developing personnel strengths and resources for leadership (TU Berlin). These flagship programs address professors having managerial responsibility within the Alliance or alliance-funded projects.
Flagship program of the Charité
Effective and efficient decision-making - confident leadership in challenging situations
Objective: How professors and other managers from the university context can make effective and efficient decisions in different situations in line with their roles and tasks is the core issue of leadership in academia, which develops positive or negative impact in almost all leadership topics.
In the “Effective and efficient decision-making - confident leadership in challenging situations” program, participants learn:
- Recognize and analyse decision-making ability and strength as a central leadership competence in the university context,
- understand the structures in which they work with a view to the associated challenges
- reflect on their own role(s) with regard to decision-making obstacles, decision-making difficulties and decision-making opportunities and
- develop effective and efficient strategies that can be applied in practice.
The aim of this systematic reflection on all decision-making processes in one's own area of activity is to recognize and expand personal and institutional decision-making scope and at the same time minimize biases in decision-making.
Content: As we know from experience, decision-making processes and the resulting decisions are subject to diverse and often contradictory - individual and collective - requirements: they should be factually sound, comprehensible and understandable for those affected, generally create meaning and be experienced by the decision-makers as goal-oriented and professional-authentic and also be communicated in a credible and comprehensible or connectable manner.
This three-part program focuses on how this challenging task, which also offers a great deal of scope for design, can be solved in the university context, taking into account a wide range of perspectives and issues.
Target group: First of all this program aims professors, having managerial responsibility within the Alliance or alliance-funded projects (e. g. members of executive committees, executive board, Board of directors, directors of clusters of excellence, special research fields and other initiatives of the alliance). Furthermore all professors of Charité, FU, HU and TU can participate and others in a leadership position within the Berlin University Alliance as well.
Trainer: Alexandra Busch is an executive coach and senior consultant for professors and works throughout Germany as a systemic coach, strategy consultant, team and organizational developer and trainer for colleges and universities.
Dates: The program will be offered in three modules: June 06, June 27 and July 11 (9 a.m. until 4.30 p.m. each day). Application deadline for participation in all three modules of the flagship program is March 23, 2025. The second round in 2025 will take place on the following dates: October 10, 2025, November 3, 2025 and December 5, 2025.
Module 1: Basics of decision-making and self-reflection
Module 2: Psychology of decisions - processes and biases
Module 3: Decision-making power in practice - implementation and communication
For family-friendliness reasons, no events will be held during the Berlin school vacations.
Registration: Please note: Your program registration includes participation in all three workshops. The dates cannot be booked individually.
When registering for the flagship program "Effective and efficient decision-making - confident leadership in challenging situations", please indicate:
1. How long have you been employed in a management position at a university or the Charité?
2. How long have you been in your current position?
3. Are you working on a BUA project?
4. Are you a researcher?
5. Full professorship (also tenure track), junior professorship or junior research group leader?
Thank you! We will be happy to answer any questions you may have about the program.
As far as possible, places are allocated on a gender-parity basis and equally distributed among the four BUA-partners FU, HU, TU and Charité. You will receive a final confirmation/refusal of participation in the program after the application deadline.
Please contact
Dr. Mareike Behmann
Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH)
Translationsforschungsbereich der Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Anna-Louisa-Karsch-Str. 2
10178 Berlin, Germany
Tel. +49 (0)30 / 450 543 317
mareike.behmann@charite.de
BIH Biomedical Innovation Academy
Head of the BIH Biomedical Innovation Academy and head of project
Dr. Nathalie Huber (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
Additional programs of the Berlin Leadership Academy
In addition to the Charité flagship program, the Berlin Leadership Academy offers three other programs, each with a different focus, which are open to the responsible leaders of the Freie Universität Berlin (FU), the Humboldt Universität Berlin (HU), the Technische Universität Berlin (TU) and the Charité. In the area of non-professorial further training, the Berlin leadership academy bundles the further trainings of the BUA-Universities.
The “Women - Leadership - Science” program is aimed at female managers in leadership positions in the areas of administration, service and technology at the four partners FU, HU, TU and Charité. Your contact person: Dr. Mareike Behmann
