Courses organised by CMSZH 2025
All courses organised by CMSZH are esprecially designed for the needs of PhD students.
If you are interesed in one of the courses, please send an e-mail to Sabine Stockhause.
Course absences:
In case of late cancelation with insufficient reasons or unexcused absence from a soft skills training of the CMSZH, the Head of the Graduate School will raise a fee of CHF 150 to compensate partly the costs of the training. The fee is charged directly to the PhD student.
Communication Skills for Leaders
Course 1
Dates:
Course: March 13 & 14 | 2025
Location: Merck AG | Buchs
Refresher: June 13 | 2025
Location: UZH
Course Leader: PD Becker
Downloard Flyer (PDF, 195 KB)
Course 2
Dates:
Course: November 10 & 11 | 2025
Location: HWZ | Zürich
Refresher: Januar 21 | 2026
Location: UZH
Course Leader: PD Becker
Downloard Flyer (PDF, 195 KB)
Management Skills for Leaders
Course 1
Dates:
Course: September 25 & 26 | 2025
Location: Siegfried AG | Zofingen
Refresher: November 19 | 2025
Location: Univesität Bern
Course Leader: Roberto Vogt
Downloard Flyer (PDF, 184 KB)
Course 2
Dates:
Course: October 9 & 10 | 2025
Location: Merck AG, Buchs
Refresher: January 20 | 2026
Location: UZH
Course Leader: Roberto Vogt
Downloard Flyer (PDF, 184 KB)
Leadership Skills for Leaders
Course 1
Dates:
Course: May 21 & 22 | 2025
Location: Mettler Toledo | Greifensee
Refresher: September 11 | 2025
Location: Uni Bern
Course Leader: Roberto Vogt
Downloard Flyer (PDF, 198 KB)
How to apply successfully for a job
Course 1
Dates:
Course: June 11 & 12 | 2025
Location: Uni Bern
Course Leaders: PD Becker and S. Sovilj
Downloard Flyer (PDF, 203 KB)
Story Telling Course
Course 1
Dates:
Course: November 13 | 2025
Location: UZH
Course Leaders: Vaclav Strnadel
• Techniques to capture attention and increase audience motivation
• Activating memory and emotions through stories
• Fundamentals of data visualization (Do we really need PowerPoint?)
• Goal, concept, structure, and call-to-action of your story
• Big Idea – using conflict to achieve your objective
• Bringing tables and graphs to life
• Can data lie? – how data selection and visualization manipulate results
• The four pillars of storytelling: from chart to story
• Enhancing concentration, removing visual clutter
• Alignment, contrast, strategic use of white space
