Dozent gesucht für Auftrag - Unternehmensberatung / Business Consulting

Für unsere wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Masterstudiengänge suche ich eine praxiserfahrene Lehrpersonen für ein Online-Live-Modul "Negotiation & Consulting". In der seminaristischen Vorlesung lernen die Studierenden Grundlagen des Consultings kennen und beteiligen sich aktiv, z.B. mit Referaten oder der Ausarbeitung von Fallstudien.

Unterrichtssprache ist englisch.
Umfang: 12 * 90 Minuten.

Content
This module deals with both traditional and current methods of strategy, and organizational and process consulting. The bandwidth ranges from external and internal strategic analysis to strategy formulation and strategic options at the levels of the business area and the overall company. Furthermore, instruments for increasing effectiveness and efficiency in operational and organizational structures will be discussed. More recent methods such as innovation management will also be examined and applied as part of the module. Students learn the basic principles of the acquisition, coordination, and management processes of internal and external consulting projects. They learn to take on the different roles within a project team and have advance knowledge about project communication and project controlling. Team building, group dynamics, and client relationship management approaches are also important topics of this module.
In addition, this module conveys the wide range of interpersonal communication skills within as well as outside the company. Concepts, models, and strategies for team, management, and crisis communication are presented, the relationship between goal-oriented, cross-cultural and ethical interaction premises and their integration techniques are discussed, techniques for consensual persuasion results are shown.
Structure, techniques, and practice of presentations, including the different possibilities to use them in meetings and strategies to adapt them to an intercultural context by modifying the words, images and gestures are discussed. Students also learn about fundamentals of adequate story lining and presentation design.
They also discuss and extend their knowledge on scientific methods for scientifically robust problem-solving, e.g., techniques for structuring empirical studies and their line of argument and scientific research approaches.

Learning outcomes
After attending the module, students are familiar with different methods of organizational and process consulting and they are able to apply them in various situations. They develop their own understanding of roles in the consulting process and apply it in an authentic fashion. They understand how scientific methods can be used to solve problems from the field and how a project should be set up to be successful. Students know how to prepare professional presentations and deliver them in front of customers, team members or management boards with the goal to present their positions, discuss them critically and defend them. Students understand how decision-making processes within teams work and know about the influence of group dynamics. Students can deal with conflicts, reflect and compare different points of view in groups and organizations. In addition, they can reflect on the progress of a project.

Teaching and learning methods
This module is a synchronous seminar-based course, which takes place at fixed time slots (12 × 90 min) in a virtual classroom. The lecturers provide the content structure of the seminar, prepare short introductory lessons, invite guests, bring in practical questions or set specific tasks. A digital semester apparatus with (digital) reading recommendations is provided with additional references to supporting material like videos, case studies, empirical papers or essays. The students work on the contents together, actively contribute and discuss the main ideas. Students are expected to make independent contributions, e.g., by actively participating in a discussion, summarizing papers, writing short essays, or giving presentations.