DivE-Q Event: Workshop “Time and Project Management for Researchers”
Ph.D. students and Postdocs need to advance their research while also managing many other tasks, like teaching, supervising, or doing admin work. Project management skills and competencies in time management are indispensable for productive progress. It takes good time and project management skills to excel in such an environment. This workshop offers different methods and strategies to help you build the required skills to make optimal use of your available time and make efficient progress towards your goals. You will learn key project planning techniques and apply them to your research project. We will also discuss how to stick to your priorities in the face of conflicting demands, how to set up routines for highly focused work, and how to become less perfectionist and more pragmatic. In general, selecting methods that work well for you will be a focus as well as discussing how to sustainably transfer them to your work context.
In this workshop, you will …
- learn how to set goals
- practice milestone planning & progress monitoring
- train Agile planning
- learn to defend boundaries
- obtain Routines for highly focused work
- discuss pragmatism & perfectionism
Further information
Language: English
Target group: PhD students and postdocs
Online workshop, 2 sessions
Wednesday, 13th November, 9.00 am – 1.00 pm
Thursday, 14th November, 9.00 am – 1.00 pm
Registration open until 15 October 2024 at trr306-office@fau.de
Trainer
Daniel Friedrich is an expert in project and self-management within and outside academia. After working in Berlin, Oxford and at the Australian National University, he taught and conducted research as a post-doc at the interdisciplinary Berlin School of Mind and Brain. He gained experience as a founder, taught as a Teach First Fellow and worked for several years as a Data Scientist at Germany’s largest portal for teaching materials. Since 2019, he has been contributing his experience as a researcher, PhD supervisor and university lecturer at Impulsplus.
More information can be found here: https://www.impulsplus.com