PREMIUM Workshops

Find more information about the workshops offered in the PREMIUM programme and sign up for the workshops of your choice. To be able to successfully conclude the programme, you need to have attended the 3 mandatory workshops and at least 3 of the elective workshops (6 workshops in total).

Mandatory Workshops (attend all 3)

Electives (attend at least 3)

Discover Your Competences

This workshop serves as the starting point of your professional development in PREMIUM. Additionally, it serves as a way to kickstart the coaching trajectory. In this workshop, hosted by UM Career Services, you will take a closer look at your strengths, weaknesses, ambitions, and more, in order to define a couple of competencies you would like to work on in PREMIUM. Together with your competence coach, you can then decide on the course you will take in your sessions together.

To be well prepared for the workshop it is important for you to complete the assignments, which can access via the button below.

Please take the results with you to the training.

“Very nice and helpful. Included a way of thinking and models which I did not know before, but which are very valuable.”

Your Workshop Host

UM Career Services

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UM Career Services is a division of the Student Service Center, dedicated to bringing students and the job market closer together. UM CS offers workshops, career guidance, a UM vacancy board, career events, and several other useful opportunities for students.

Please note that attendance at this workshop is strictly mandatory for all PREMIUM participants.

  • Tuesday 16.01.2024, 13:30-16:30 hrs;
  • Wednesday 17.01.2024, 09:30-12:30 hrs;
  • Thursday 18.01.2024, 13:30-16:30 hrs;
  • Friday 19.02.2024, 09:30-12:30 hrs;
  • Monday 22.01.2024, 13:30-16:30 hrs;
  • Tuesday 23.01.2024, 13:30-16:30 hrs;
  • Wednesday 24.01.2024, 13:30-16:30 hrs;
  • Wednesday 07.02.2024, 09:30-12:30 hrs;
  • Thursday 08.02.2024, 09:30-12:30 hrs;
  • Tuesday 20.02.2024, 13:30-16:30 hrs;

All “Discover Your Competences” workshops will take place at EDLAB’s Tapijn Building X. All attendees will receive a reminder email with the exact location two days before the session.

Introduction to Project-Based Working

This workshop covers the major differences between the theory and practice of working on large-scale projects. Why is it that projects that seem properly organised on paper often run overtime? Why do project documents name a single client, yet in practice there are always many clients? Why do sound design requirements rarely result in a good finished product?

This workshop explores how people work together in practice, and how they overcome the difficulties and problems they encounter in their projects. The focus is on identifying and solving large-scale project problems, identifying why problems happen, and how to prevent them in the future. You learn the basics of project-based working and explore the cutting edge of the topic. The course is interactive, giving you the chance to focus on individual questions.

Please note that there are also advanced workshops related to Project Based Working as part of the elective workshops in PREMIUM.

Preparation Assignment

To prepare for this workshop, the trainer requests that you take a look at the Project-Based Working Checklist, and bring it with you to the session.

“Very useful, a kickstart to structuring your project work for PREMIUM.”

Your Workshop Host

Marcel Stolk (Mast Creativiteit)


Marcel is an experiences trainer of all facets of creativity, innovation and change with over 25 years of experience. He has a background as an Industrial Design Engineer at Delft University of Technology, and has been affiliated with the COCD (Centre for the Development of Creative Thinking) for over fifteen years, a pioneer and specialist in the field of creative thinking. He is also part of Tabula Crea, a group of independent professionals in innovation and creativity, and recently completed the Master course in Generative Leadership, which helps to get to the core of participants and organizations and to ensure that supported results are achieved.

Please note that attendance at this workshop is strictly mandatory for all PREMIUM participants.

Available Sessions:

  • Monday 05.02.2024, 13:30-16:30 hrs;
  • Monday 05.02.2024, 17:30-20:30 hrs;
  • Thursday 08.02.2024, 13:30-16:30 hrs;
  • Thursday 08.02.2024, 17:30-20:30 hrs;
  • Friday 09.02.2024, 09:30-12:30 hrs;
  • Tuesday 27.02.2024, 09:30-12:30 hrs;
  • Tuesday 27.02.2024, 13:30-16:30 hrs;
  • Wednesday 28.02.2024, 09:30-12:30 hrs;
  • Wednesday 28.02.2024, 13:30-16:30 hrs.

The “Introduction to Project-Based Working” workshops will take place at EDLAB’s Tapijn Building X. All attendees will receive a reminder email with the exact location two days before the session.

Teamwork

In this workshop it’s all about group dynamics. The students will learn how to work together in an effective and cohesive way. The workshop is based on experiential learning and the team model of Lencioni. In an active and engaging way students will experience, what it takes to be a good
team member.

During this session we will be working on how to work as a team, work independently and to stay on task, whilst retaining a clear overview on the process. You will also learn how to tackle difficult situations should they arise. We will be working on questions like:

  • How can we ensure that we as group members quickly connect with each other?
  • How can we work on trust, so that we have more openness and involvement in the group?
  • And what to do with conflicts, that undoubtedly will arise, in the group?

We will use different models to give you a better insight on group dynamics, team and personal effectiveness. In this workshop we will use Experiential Learning. It’s going to be an active session; partly outside.

“This is a workshop from which I will definitely take away a lot of things.”

Your Workshop Host

Jean-Paul Stijnen (Team Focus)


Team Focus is a professional training and coaching agency for organisations, teams and personal development. A specialist in
experiential learning. Tapping into people’s true potential is what drives us.
Team Focus is mainly aimed at raising awareness of attitude and behaviour. We do so by guiding teams, organizations and individuals based on highly effective methods in the field of team and personal development, such as Experiential Learning, DISC, The Five Behaviors from Lencioni and coaching.

Please note that attendance at this workshop is strictly mandatory for all PREMIUM participants.

Available Sessions:

  • Wednesday 17.01.2024, 13:30-16:30 hrs;
  • Wednesday 24.01.2024, 09:30-12:30 hrs;
  • Tuesday 06.02.2024, 14:00-17:00 hrs;
  • Wednesday 07.02.2024, 13:30-16:30 hrs;
  • Wednesday 07.02.2024, 17:30-20:30 hrs;
  • Wednesday 21.02.2024, 13:30-16:30 hrs;
  • Wednesday 21.02.2024, 17:30-20:30 hrs;
  • Friday 23.02.2024, 09:30-12:30 hrs;
  • Thursday 29.02.2024, 09:30-12:30 hrs.

The “Teamwork” workshops will take place at EDLAB’s Tapijn Building X. All attendees will receive a reminder email with the exact location two days before the session.

Design Thinking: finding innovative solutions

The Double Diamond, as a method for Design Thinking, has become world-renowned due to being a clear, comprehensive and visual description of the innovation process. It is successfully applied for discovering opportunities and finding solutions for new products, services and processes. This Double Diamond framework for innovation also includes key principles and design methods, and the ideal working culture needed, to achieve significant and long-lasting positive change.
The two diamonds represent a process of exploring an issue more widely or deeply (discover & define) and then taking focused action (develop & deliver). The first part, on discover & define, is introduced during the PREMIUM workshop Project Based Working.

In this Design Thinking workshop, we will focus on the second part of the Double Diamond, which is all about developing innovative solutions and delivering them to your PREMIUM client. On how to find solutions for your client’s problems, finding ideas that are both surprising and feasible. The workshop will also help you finding ways on how to make impact delivering your solutions to your client.

Develop.  In this phase the aim is to find as many options as possible for the (re)defined question of your client. You will learn methods for idea generation, how to find outside-the-box solutions for your PREMIUM problem or challenge. How to use new and attractive perspectives and how to combine small ideas into a larger solution. How to find ideas for short and for long term. Practical tips on how to organize your own brainstorm workshop (with your client).

Deliver.  Once you have all the options, all these ideas from the Develop phase, it is time to select and elaborate the best idea into a feasible solution. How to make your solution realistic and surprising at the same time? ‘Deliver’ also involves testing different solutions at small-scale, rejecting those that will not work and improving the ones that will. The final part of the workshop is about how to present your solution to your client in such a way, that your advice will have a huge chance to be implemented.

“This was my favorite workshop so far! It was so much fun! I found the workshop well structured and extremely valuable, both for my future carrier and for PREMIUM especially.”

Your Workshop Host

Marcel Stolk (Mast Creativiteit)


Marcel is an experiences trainer of all facets of creativity, innovation and change with over 25 years of experience. He has a background as an Industrial Design Engineer at Delft University of Technology, and has been affiliated with the COCD (Centre for the Development of Creative Thinking) for over fifteen years, a pioneer and specialist in the field of creative thinking. He is also part of Tabula Crea, a group of independent professionals in innovation and creativity, and recently completed the Master course in Generative Leadership, which helps to get to the core of participants and organizations and to ensure that supported results are achieved.

Please note that this workshop is one of the electives PREMIUM offers. Attend a minimum of 3 elective workshops/masterclasses.

Available Sessions:

  • Wednesday 13.03.2024, 17:30-20:30 hrs;
  • Thursday 14.03.2024, 09:30-12:30 hrs;

All “Design Thinking” workshops will take place at EDLAB’s Tapijn Building X. All attendees will receive a reminder email with the exact location two days before the session.

Sustainable Career Development

What are my career opportunities post-graduation? How will I navigate the job market in what seems to be a very unstable period of time for my generation?

Be it a classic career path, or the development of a personal brand, in this workshop, you will learn how to develop a sustainable strategy to map out your career steps post graduation, taking into account a healthy work-life balance.

Your facilitator in this process is Adina Petre, a Clinical Psychologist and High Performance coach with a decade of experience in entrepreneurship, education, human and business development. As a long term collaborator with UM, Adina has the experience to guide you in the process of discovering your work competencies, translating them into employable profiles and helping you design an actionable blueprint to help orient yourself in the work field, post graduation.

 

“I think this is a very good workshop for students who are orientating themselves on the next steps after graduation!”

Your Workshop Host

Adina Petre (Insights)


My educational background is in Psychology. After attaining my Master degree in Clinical Psychology, I worked as a career counselor and student psychologist for children and teenagers alike. I trained in Switzerland and my company in personal coaching started growing soon after.
I have always been deeply involved with the business community, the entrepreneurial life and the startup scene. I’ve offered workshops, trainings, and contributed to organizing events around the topic of entrepreneurship. I coached Enactus Maastricht for their first, second and third Dutch National Competitions. Meanwhile I was also working as project and community manager for LaunchBase – the first startup pre-incubation programme ever to be set up in Maastricht. I also worked for TedX Maastricht where I was part of the speaker liaison and story-telling coaches subteam. I’m always looking for interesting new projects, challenges and collaborations! But most importantly, I look for dedicated, passionate and interesting people that have a genuine desire to grow.
I am an English speaking psychologist and a high performance coach with my own practice in Maastricht, and through my work I promote personal development, empowerment and healthy autonomy for my clients.

Please note that this workshop is one of the electives PREMIUM offers. Attend a minimum of 3 of the elective workshops.

Available Sessions:

  • Monday 15.04.2024, 14:00-16:00 hrs;
  • Tuesday 30.04.2024, 11:00-13:00 hrs;
  • Thursday 02.05.2024, 14:00-16:00 hrs;

All “Sustainable Career Development” workshops will take place at EDLAB’s Tapijn Building X. All attendees will receive a reminder email with the exact location two days before the session.

Current Themes in Leadership

This masterclass is based on the experience of Eric Koenen as a leader and boardroom-consultant in complex national and international organizations and on the content of the books he wrote.

It will focus on the irrational processes and politics in organizations and teams and on how to cope with that in organizational change. Eric Koenen supports his insights with the help of art and film. He will also present a hot issue case and challenge the students to advise him what to do the coming weeks.

“I already had a lot of leadership lectures and workshop but I was positively surprised how the trainer made the connection to a lot of metaphors and connected it to art. Besides, it was very nice to listen to him and interesting new insights about the leading in organisations and managing changes.”

Your Workshop Host

Eric Koenen (Doorwerthgroep/Academie voor Interventiekunde)


Eric Koenen has a background in behavioural science and business. He has worked at Philips and Price Waterhouse Coopers, and was a member on the board of Cofely Suez (previously GTI nv) in the Netherlands for almost a decade. During that time he started and led an integrated change process. His strategy was to invite and connect all talents in the organization and focus them on a common goal. Eric has written several books on leadership and organizational change.

Please note that this masterclass is one of the electives PREMIUM offers. Attend a minimum of 3 elective workshops/masterclasses.

Available Sessions:

  • Wednesday 17.04.2024, 14:00-16:00 hrs;
  • Thursday 25.04.2024, 10:00-12:00 hrs.

All “Current Themes in Leadership” masterclasses will take place at EDLAB’s Tapijn Building X. All attendees will receive a reminder email with the exact location two days before the session.

7 Habits of Highly Effective People

One of the most compelling books ever written by Stephen R. Covey, the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, have empowered and inspired readers for over 30 years and played a part in the transformation of millions of lives, across all age groups and professions.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People aligns timeless principles of effectiveness with modern technology and practices.
No matter how competent a person is they will not have sustained and lasting success, unless they are able to effectively lead themselves, influence, engage and collaborate with others and continuously improve and renew their capabilities. These elements are at the heart of personal, team and organizational effectiveness.

Students will be introduced to the 7 Habits via an intensive masterclass that fits the principles of effectiveness both for professional life and for personal development.

  • Habit 1 “Be proactive”:  Participants will focus and act on what they can control and influence, instead of what you can’t.
  • Habit 2 “Begin with the end in mind”: Participants will define clear measures of success and a plan to achieve them.
  • Habit 3 “Put first things first”: Participants will prioritize and achieve their most important goals, instead of constantly reacting to urgencies.
  • Habit 4 “Think win-win”: Participants will collaborate more effectively by building high-trust relationships.
  • Habit 5 “Seek first to understand then to be understood”: Participants will influence others by developing a deep understanding of their needs and perspectives.
  • Habit 6 “Synergize”: Participants will develop innovative solutions that leverage diversity and satisfy all key stakeholders.
  • Habit 7 “Sharpen the saw”: Participants will increase motivation, energy, and work/life balance by making time for renewing activities.
“Very nice, usable, interesting and implementable workshop!”

Your Workshop Host

Michelle van Eijk (FranklinCovey Benelux)


Michelle is a trainer & consultant at FranklinCovey Benelux.

Please note that this workshop is one of the electives PREMIUM offers. Attend a minimum of 3 of the elective workshops.

Available Sessions:

  • Monday 04.03.2024, 13:30-16:30 hrs;
  • Tuesday 05.03.2024, 09:30-12:30 hrs.

All “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” workshops will take place at EDLAB’s Tapijn Building X. All attendees will receive a reminder email with the exact location two days before the session.

Stress Management

We all find ourselves in stressful situations from time to time. Whether at work, during our studies, or when life throws nasty surprises at you. This is normal. But, when does it become problematic? When are you in danger of stress becoming a danger to your health and what do you need to do to avoid this? This workshop will give you basic insights into what stress is, where it comes from, and its effects. You will also get to identify your stress sources and tips on how to better manage these stressors and how to ensure you have enough resources.

“It was by far the most helpful and interesting workshop! It really helps to self-reflect and understand what I need to be aware of and identify potential problems.”

Your Workshop Host

Karolin Biewald (Key2advance)


Karolin is a highly skilled consultant and trainer with a strong background in IT project management. She has extensive experience working with multiple companies in the healthcare and public sectors, acquiring valuable management skills.

Moreover, Karolin’s proficiency as a professional singer and musical actress has greatly influenced her work. Her education has equipped her with exceptional public speaking, presentation, and phonetic skills. By merging her analytical and creative strengths, Karolin helps individuals discover their unique voice and employ it as a potent tool for self-expression.

Furthermore, Karolin recognizes the interconnection between voice and body and works with her clients on integrating body language and movement into their communication. With her broad range of expertise and multidisciplinary approach, Karolin is an engaging trainer and consultant, enabling individuals to unlock their full potential.

Please note that this workshop is one of the electives PREMIUM offers. Attend a minimum of 3 of the elective workshops.

Available Sessions:

  • Friday 01.03.2024, 09:30-12:30 hrs;
  • Monday 18.03.2024, 14:00-17:00 hrs;
  • Thursday 18.04.2024, 18:00-21:00 hrs;
  • Tuesday 23.04.2024, 13:30-16:30 hrs.

All “Stress Management” workshops will take place at EDLAB’s Tapijn Building X. All attendees will receive a reminder email with the exact location two days before the session.

The Art of Effective Networking

Many jobs and internships are on the hidden job market.
In order for candidates to access these opportunities, they need to know the basics of networking.

During this workshop, participants will learn the techniques of positive body language, opening lines, ethics of handling contacts,
and how to follow up.

Your Workshop Host

Mona Shair-Wloch (Key2Advance)


Mona Shair-Wloch is the founder and principal trainer of key2advance, a coaching, training, career services and internship coordination consultancy. From 2007-2013, she led a high profile internship program at the European Parliament in Brussels for students from all over the world under the patronage of Pat Cox, former president of the European Parliament. Since 2010, she secured and coordinated internships for students at multiple universities and has coached recent graduates into finding opportunities that match their skills and interests. She has extensive experience in helping students gain clarity on their target career sector, enhancing their application documents and providing them with necessary skills for a successful school to work transition.

Please note that this workshop is one of the electives PREMIUM offers. Attend a minimum of 3 of the elective workshops.

Available Sessions:

  • Thursday 18.04.2024, 14:00-17:00 hrs;
  • Friday 19.04.2024, 09:30-12:30 hrs;
  • Wednesday 24.04.2024, 09:30-12:30 hrs.

All “Art of Effective Networking” workshops will take place at EDLAB’s Tapijn Building X. All attendees will receive a reminder email with the exact location two days before the session.

Time Management

If you want to excel it doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to do more, quantity wise. It foremost means that you deliver better quality. However, of course you really excel when you can do more and do it better.

The problem with our brain is that it needs to be able to focus on the task at hand and that’s hard when there’s so much going on. If you’re stressed, lack a good overview, or your life is just an all-around mess, it’s probably hard to excel at anything.

In order to overcome this, you should:

  • know how your brain works to steer it away from procastination, “multitasking”, and distractions (e.g. a pesky social media habit);
  • know how your brain processes information;
  • streamline all the work that is coming at you (emails, homework, assignments, papers etc.);
  • plan ahead for the large tasks so that you don’t have to do everything at the last moment;
  • keep a good overview of everything on your plate and decide what to focus on.

In the Time-Management workshop we promise you one thing: we are going to cover all of these subjects (and more) in a non-boring fashion. You will be provided with ready-to-use insights and practical tips on how to stay on top of things with the use of the latest insights and technology (you may expect many useful suggestions for how various specific apps can adequately support time management).

“Since I have many problems with time management, and the anxiety that comes with it, I found this workshop very useful for my future career as well as overall wellbeing. It was vivid, inspiring and practical!”

Your Workshop Host

Patrick Stastra (TijdWinst)


Patrick is a trainer at Tijdwinst.com, specialized in time management trainings and an expert on way to work more efficiently. Tijdwinst.com organizes practical trainings, workshops, and lectures on time management and effective working topics throughout the entire country.
I encourage organizations and their workers, entrepreneurs & students to work, collaborate, communicate and learn smarter. All done by workshops, inspiring talks & e-learning programs.

“My 3 hour workshops and 1 hour talks are full of practical exercises, ideas and tricks, always served with a hint of theory (e.g. Getting Things Done), scientific foundation and a lot of enthusiasm. All my efforts are focused on changing your behavior to work, collaborate, communicate or learn smarter from the next day on.”

Please note that this workshop is one of the electives PREMIUM offers. Attend a minimum of 3 of the elective workshops.

Available Sessions:

  • Monday 04.03.2024, 09:30-12:30 hrs;
  • Tuesday 12.03.2024, 09:30-12:30 hrs.

All “Time Management” workshops will take place at EDLAB’s Tapijn Building X. All attendees will receive a reminder email with the exact location two days before the session.

Contract Negotiation Skills

Congratulations, you’ve found a job! Your employer has invited you for a meeting to discuss your offer.

How do you negotiate your salary? Which aspects do you need to take into account when signing your labor contract? What are the ins and outs of such a conversation? Which fringe benefits, next to salary, might make up your contract? Do you immediately agree to the offer you receive? Does your contract include a notice period or non-compete clause? What does the pension scheme look like? And is your salary offer around the market rate?

These are all questions that will be addressed during the workshop Contract Negotiations. You will get a better overview of all possible aspects of your future labour contract.

“Completely loved this workshop. Even though contract negotiation might be difficult to apply to certain working fields (educational, governmental, health care), I still feel the trainer gave us useful tips on how to generally negotiate or discuss a contract. Really got to learn many new things!”

Your Workshop Host

Bibiana Linssen


Listening, recognizing patterns and connecting people and concepts – that’s what I do best.
Be it as a coach for young adults, trying to find their way to the labour market. Or as a trainer, facilitating team dynamics and group learning. As a project consultant, co-ordinating tasks and getting things done.
Whatever I do, I like to question, to connect and co-create with colleagues, students and other stakeholders. I prefer to work based on principles of Design Thinking, Appreciative Inquiry and LEAN – always looking for result and added value. As a trainer / facilitator I enjoy creating a light-hearted and safe environment in which change is not a threat, but a challenge that can be approached in a playful way.

Specialties: Change management, (student) employability, coaching, team dynamics, and LEAN in service industries.

Please note that this workshop is one of the electives PREMIUM offers. Attend a minimum of 3 of the elective workshops.

Available Sessions:

  • Thursday 25.04.2024, 17:00-20:00 hrs;
  • Wednesday 15.05.2024, 09:30-12:30 hrs;
  • Wednesday 15.05.2024, 13:30-16:30 hrs.

All “Contract Negotiation Skills” workshops will take place at EDLAB’s Tapijn Building X. All attendees will receive a reminder email with the exact location two days before the session.

Public Speaking

The goal of this session is to understand and practice the most important pillars needed to maximize one`s impact when speaking to an audience. Often we have the most difficulty understanding and interacting with audiences whose preferences are different to our own. Recognizing these characteristics can help in developing strategies for personal growth and enhanced impact.

This workshop encourages participants to practice the delivery of motivational, serious and trust-building speeches. During these advanced sessions, a big emphasis is placed on emotional expressiveness, body language, and voice coaching. At the end of the workshop, participants will have understood their communication style and gained awareness on how to connect with various audiences and leave a lasting impression.

“The workshop was practical with many exercises, which really helped me in understanding how I can give a better presentation or pitch. It supports me to define how I can improve this skill in an approachable way. It showed me that already minor changes could improve the way we talk and present a lot. So far, it was one of the most valuable workshops to me.”

Your Workshop Host

Mona Shair-Wloch (Key2Advance)


Mona Shair-Wloch is the founder and principal trainer of key2advance, a coaching, training, career services and internship coordination consultancy. From 2007-2013, she led a high profile internship program at the European Parliament in Brussels for students from all over the world under the patronage of Pat Cox, former president of the European Parliament. Since 2010, she secured and coordinated internships for students at multiple universities and has coached recent graduates into finding opportunities that match their skills and interests. She has extensive experience in helping students gain clarity on their target career sector, enhancing their application documents and providing them with necessary skills for a successful school to work transition.

Please note that this workshop is one of the electives PREMIUM offers. Attend a minimum of 3 of the elective workshops.

Available Sessions:

  • Thursday 29.02.2024, 18:00-21:00 hrs;
  • Monday 11.03.2024, 14:00-17:00 hrs;
  • Monday 18.03.2024, 10:00-13:00 hrs;
  • Tuesday 19.03.2024, 09:30-12:30 hrs.

All “Public Speaking” workshops will take place at EDLAB’s Tapijn Building X. All attendees will receive a reminder email with the exact location two days before the session.

Workshop Registration SOS

Please note that you can only sign up for workshops yourselves.
In case you wish to change the timeslot for a certain workshop, or cancel a workshop registration completely, you need to contact this member of PREMIUM Central Management Team.

Fabienne Crombach

PREMIUM Senior Coordinator

043-3884173