I got 90 percent of my projects through networks
, reported Dr. Bettina Jansen-Schulz, has been active in science and education management for decades. For a year she had her mentee, the young scientist Anna Lena Möller from Institute for Interactive Systems, accompanied personally with monthly discussions. The two are one of nine tandems founded by the equal opportunities officer Dr. Daphne Reim had been conveyed.
Career and personnel development at the TH Lübeck
The program has been running since 2022, it is only aimed at women, and funding comes from the federal and state women’s professor programs. For 2024 there will now be 15 tandems that will exchange information regularly in a self-organized manner. The plant grows
said Chancellor Yvonne Plaul happily. Mentoring at TH Lübeck is an important career and personnel development measure at TH Lübeck. The mentors make an important contribution to promoting young women.
She welcomed the new tandems for 2024 and, on St. Nicholas Day 2023, presented last year’s graduates with a certificate and a rose as well as a tool for further success: a beautifully bound book for positive thoughts.
A positive experience of the goal helps on the way to a good result
The keynote speech was about the power of these positive thoughts: “From Thoughts to Actions: The Inner Power of Images” by business coach Sandra Klaus. Thoughts create feelings, and these feelings influence how we act
, she said. A journey of thought was followed by many tips on how to use the power of positive thoughts for your own success. Through positive experience of the goal, a positive pull is created that helps us to implement the imaginary goal state in reality.
Networking events and workshops on your career path
In addition to personal advice from an experienced mentor, the new mentees can look forward to interesting networking events with other mentees and various workshops on key skills in the coming year. In the workshops, the participants learned, for example, how to network strategically, expand personal contacts and gain insider knowledge.
The year was worth it for Anna Lena Möller: She and Bettina Jansen-Schulz are on the same level, are now on a first-name basis and will certainly continue to exchange ideas from time to time in the future. At the beginning of my career, I didn’t know how important targeted networking was
she says. I am the first woman in my family to have a college degree. I learned a lot from these conversations that I probably wouldn’t have learned until much later.