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. 

After this course you…

• can recognize in what ways you work inefficiently
• have tools for optimizing your working style to work with more focus
• spend less time on email and have a better overview over email
• have a better overview over the PhD project and the to-do’s
• can use your calendar more efficiently
• can plan and prioritize your project PhD more effectively
• know how to say No when needed
• can achieve a better work – life balance
• can prevent and deal with internal and external disruptions and the fragmenting of time