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Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students
The challenge of creating momentum and structure for the duration of a research degree, which is often characterised by long periods of independent work, demands very effective time management skills. PGRs may find themselves careering between periods of drifting and periods of stressful deadline-driven overwork. This can lead to feeling overwhelmed and rudderless, resulting in struggles to prioritise work or use time efficiently and effectively. At other times, PGR study will overtake everything else in life, making work-life balance seem impossible and preventing long-term career development. Despite these challenges, it is possible to develop simple time management habits that will make keeping on top of a postgraduate research degree easier and less stressful.
This course provides tools and techniques that will help participants manage their own time and energy more productively to become more effective and less stressed on a day-to-day basis. Participants will learn how to understand and work with their individual time management style, use better prioritisation techniques, and how to reduce procrastination. Through group exercises, personal reflection and application to real-life workload, participants will develop a range of self-management approaches. They will learn practical time management techniques in order to use time effectively and maintain work-life balance. They will also learn how to manage themselves: how to focus their energy, attention, and priorities.
Participants will devise a personalised and, most importantly, a pragmatic approach to managing their time based on a range of take-away tools that enable them to maximise and sustain their effectiveness for the duration of their research degree and beyond.
By the end of this 1-day onsite course participants will have:
Learned how to recognise their Time Management Style and understood how best to manage their time inline with personal preferences
• Learned techniques to plan their time in the short and longer term to keep on top of their PGR work and objectives
• Considered how to maintain flexibility in their planning in order to stay on track in the face of the unexpected obstacles or changes that can otherwise derail PGR study
• Learned a prioritisation framework to make best use of their time at any point during their research degree
• Understood what sits behind acute and chronic procrastination, and learned tips and tricks to get moving again
• Applied all the course content directly to their current workload and circumstances to ensure they can immediately implement the techniques make better time management decisions throughout their PGR journey
Delivered By: Fistral Training and Consultancy Ltd
Prerequisites
Cancellation Policy If you are unable to attend a course please cancel your place as soon as possible, with at least 3 working days notice via the online booking system http://bookings.strath.ac.uk/mybookings.asp. Full details of booking conditions can be found at the link below.PG Certificate in Researcher Professional Development
All postgraduate research students are eligible to access the Researcher Development Programme workshops. This workshop can contribute towards the PG Certificate in Researcher Professional Development (PG Cert RPD).
You can find credit and class information in the Researcher Development Programme Handbook and in NEPTUNE (Engineering, HaSS) or SPIDER (Science).
Please check with your department or Supervisor to confirm if you are enrolled on the PG Cert RPD and how many credits you are expected to achieve if you are unsure.