Time Management Workshop for Researchers
Overview: This half-day time management workshop addresses the reality that researchers must develop effective working habits to succeed in the highly competitive academic environment. At the same time, achieving a healthy balance between work and their personal lives is essential.
The training provides practical strategies and tools to increase researchers’ productivity by helping them recognise their chief time management challenges and develop solutions.
It tackles common issues such as prioritising, making time for research and writing, managing interruptions and effectively running multiple projects.
Workshop aims: The highly interactive session is designed to deliver clear results for participants. During the workshop researchers prioritise their own time management challenges and goals, and develop a personalised and practical plan to address them.
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Workshop summary | Time management workshop for researchers focusing participants on their own time management challenges and personalised solutions |
Target audience | Researchers at all stages, from PhD candidates to senior staff. It is particularly useful for those who are adding management, administration, supervision and funding responsibilities to their research commitments |
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Mode of delivery | Delivered virtually via Zoom, or in person where feasible, on application |
Duration | Half-day: 3 hours core + 0.5hr voluntary Q&A sessions |
Core content summary | Presentations, exercises and group discussions around the following topics: |
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Workshop pricing | Please contact the head trainer Dr. Kerstin Fritsches to discuss your requirements and pricing |
Recent workshop feedback | Average score: 8.7 (71 feedback responses), based on the question, ’On a scale of 1-10, how likely would you be to recommend this workshop to a friend or colleague?’. For testimonials see below. |
Testimonials from recent time management workshops for researchers held for European and Australian institutions
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The workshop addressed a lot of the time management challenges faced by researchers and provided several suggestions and tools that can help us get better at managing our time more effectively. It was a good mix of lecture and practical tasks.
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Very practical and invited a lot of reflection and concrete action plans.
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I think it is a good catalyst for sitting down with yourself to engage in both an empathetic and realistic exploration of what your goals and motivations are, and what is achievable in the time frames and structures you are working within. It also is a good chance to observe that your situation is not particularly unique among the spectrum of academia, where there are a lot of shared similarities between academics of all backgrounds and career stages.
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Active session, felt engaged and interested throughout, doable tips are given, very helpful to immediately start working on own goals.
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The workshop guides us through our own goals, how to think about our priorities and how to take action. I liked the practical aspect of it. At the end of the workshop I had my own plan, and that was an accomplishment!
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I think the tools and strategies that were discussed would be very useful for anyone working in the academia. It's often difficult to think about your goals in concrete and strategic ways in your everyday worklife, so it's very useful to get the opportunity (and the tools) to formulate them in those terms.
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The activities provided have helped me to crystallise some of the strategies introduced during the seminar. The sharing by other participants are also helpful as I may not have thought of those strategies to use.
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Very useful information. Relevant to academic researchers but also to people who are in management positions.
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Gives a good, dedicated space to think about habits and set goals.
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…Discusses relevant issues and offers concrete and applicable advice on how to improve time management. Most importantly, it is interactive and enables you to identify some most important drawbacks in your own time management setup
About the facilitator, Dr Kerstin Fritsches and PostdocTraining
Kerstin is a former research fellow who spent the majority of her 12-year research career on grant funding, with first-hand experience of the challenges facing early career researchers and a strong track record in postdoc affairs and career development.
A lack of effective career training for PhDs led Kerstin to found PostdocTraining in 2011, to bridge a gap in professional development by delivering support tailored specifically for PhD candidates, postdocs and other early career researchers.
PostdocTraining delivers career development support in the form of online training and workshops for researchers worldwide and Kerstin has become a sought-after workshop facilitator on topics such as career planning, time management and research leadership, both in Australia and Europe.
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- Career Planning for Researchers workshop
- Networking for Researchers workshop
- Leadership for Researchers workshop