Time-manage yourself and your PhD (ONLINE)

Note that the October, March, and May courses are organised onsite. Please register for those here.

Managing your PhD and your own working behaviour is not always easy. You have to manage your projects and experiments, write your articles, teach students, participate in meetings and presumably you have to do lots of other things that may not even be related to your PhD project.

You may find it difficult to decide what to work on, to plan your day or week, or maybe you are procrastinating a lot, not working on the important stuff.

In three workshops you will be invited to reflect on various aspects of (time) management of your PhD project. Which goals or milestones do you have? Which aspects in your work are essential to achieve these goals? Do you spend your time and energy on the right things? If the answer to this question is no, take action and get back on track.

You will get tools to work more efficiently. You will discover where your inefficiencies are and how to manage yourself in order to become more productive and to finish your PhD in time.

Learning goals:

After this course you…

• will spend less time on email and can achieve inbox zero every day
• will have a better overview over the PhD project and the to-do’s
• can plan and prioritize your project PhD more effectively
• can recognize and deal with your procrastinating behaviour
• will have tools for optimizing your working style to work with more focus
• know how to say ‘No’ when you need to
• can achieve a better work – life balance
• can relax and enjoy working on your PhD project

Course dates and times:

The course consists of three 2.5h sessions:

• October course: see and register by using the link at the start of the page.
• January course: Jan 22, Feb 12, Mar 5 (either from 9:00 to 11:15 OR from 13:30 to 15:45)
• March course: see and register by using the link at the start of the page.
• May course: see and register by using the link at the start of the page.

Please note that the onsite groups are max 12 participants, whereas the online groups are max 6 participants.