Academic leadership is challenging: Join the GSO – Guidance, Skills & Opportunities for Researchers e. V. webinar to discuss systemic pressures, adaptive leadership, and finding your own style.

At some point, many researchers find themselves leading: supervising people, dealing with conflicts, making difficult decisions, navigating university structures. Often exactly at the moment when they already feel overwhelmed by papers, grants, teaching, admin, deadlines, and responsibility for others.

In the upcoming GSO webinar together with JUMP2 (a program for group leaders and professors), Dr. Anne Schreiter, CEO of GSO, and Dr. Alexandra Wiebke, Head of Paderborn PhD & Postdoc Support Office, want to talk openly about a few inconvenient truths:

• You will never get everything done.
• Academia often expects leaders to become “Swiss Army knives.”
• Many leadership challenges are systemic, not individual failures.

But they also want to discuss what can actually help:
✅ why leadership matters, especially when you feel you have no time for it
✅ how Adaptive Leadership can help in complex situations
✅ how to figure out what kind of leader you want to be

Date and time: Wednesday, July 1, 2026,  12 PM - 1:15 PM
Information and registration:  https://www.eventbrite.de/e/leadership-when-you-absolutely-have-no-time-for-it-tickets-1990387706209?aff=oddtdtcreator#location