As a doctoral candidate, you see yourself confronted with high expectations from both yourself and your supervisor. To achieve a fine balance between these demands without endangering your health or your private life, self-organization and a good time management are crucial.
During the workshop, you will learn approaches and methods to help you succeed in this challenging task. The workshop consists of a balanced combination of theoretical input, practical exercises and first-hand experience relayed by the trainer. You will learn:
- To develop appropriate objectives and to divide complex tasks into manageable units.
- To set priorities and focus on key tasks.
- To identify ’time sinks’ and to organize your workflow in a productive way.
Schedule:
1st Day (25th June 2020) |
Module I: Motivated for Your Goal |
Webinar (09:30 - 11:15) Introduction, working effectively, motivation (duration: 105 min.) |
Follow-up work (approx. 60 min.): Exercise on goal-setting |
Module II: Proactively Building the Relationship with your Supervisor |
Webinar (14:00 - 15:45) Managing mutual expectations & conversations with your supervisor (duration: 105 min.) |
Follow-up work (approx. 60 min.): Self-reflection exercise on your results from the last month and your planning for the upcoming month |
Total duration: 5:30 h |
2nd Day (26th June 2020) |
Module I: First Things First |
Webinar (09:30 - 11:15) Goal-setting, planning and prioritizing (duration: 105 min.) |
Follow-up work (approx. 90 min.): Worksheet on guiding principles and values in life; trying out a daily planning approach. |
Module II: Some other things you should know . . . |
Preparation (approx. 30 min.): Exchange of experiences in the online forum |
Webinar (14:30 - 16:15) Hints for a successful PhD (duration: 105 min.) |
Total duration: 5:30 h |
The training consists of an online course in the open-source learning management environment “Moodle” (GNU GPL) including live webinars given in the open-source webinar system “BigBlueButton” (GNU GPL). The Moodle course will provide all necessary information for the preparation and follow-up exercises of every module, as well as a platform for discussions among and feedback from all participants and the trainer. Prior to the course an account on moodle.gyger-training.de will be created for every participant using first name and last name and an email adress.
All participants are kindly asked to log in into the Moodle platform at least a day before the start of the first webinar. Please enter the webinar sessions via Moodle 10 – 15 min. before the beginning of every webinar in order to handle potential technical problems and allow us to start in time.