Time and Self-Management - Setting Goals and Managing Your Tasks (1/3)

by Dr Markus Gyger

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 09:00 → 11:30 Europe/Berlin

online

Short Summary

As a doctoral candidate, you see yourself confronted with high expectations from both yourself and your supervisor. To achieve a fine balance between these demands without endangering your health or your private life, self-organization and a good time management are crucial. 

During this online training, you will learn approaches and methods to help you succeed in this challenging task. The training consists of a balanced combination of theoretical input, practical exercises and first-hand experience relayed by the trainer. 

This online training imparts basic techniques for a successful doctorate. You will: 

• Learn to develop appropriate objectives and to divide complex tasks into manageable units;
• Set priorities and focus on key tasks;
• Understand why we procrastinate and what to do about it;
• Identify ‘time sinks’ and organize your work-flow in a productive way.

Information about the Training
The training consists of an online course in the open-source learning management environment “Moodle” (GNU GPL). It includes live online workshops given in the opensource online workshop system “BigBlueButton” (GNU GPL) as well as self- study and reflection tasks. The Moodle course will provide all necessary information for the preparation and follow-up exercises of every module, as well as a platform for discussions among and feedback from all participants and the trainer. Prior to the course an account on moodle.gyger-training.de will be created for every participant using first name, last name, and your email address. All participants are kindly asked to register to the Moodle platform at least one day before the start of the training. The online workshops can only be accessed via the Moodle platform. Please log in to the online workshop sessions 10 – 15 min.
before the beginning of every online workshop in order to handle potential technical problems and allow us to start in time.

Hardware and Software requirements 

To participate in the online course, the following hardware and software is required:

• Computer with a stable internet access (recommended minimum effective download rate of 12 MBit/s, minimum effective upload rate of 2 MBit/s)
• Webcam and microphone, preferably headset for better sound quality
• A text program (e.g.Word, LibreOffice) and a PDF editor (e.g. xournalpp, acrobat)
• Pen and paper
• A thick marker (e.g. Edding)
• The software BigBlueBotton works best with the Chromium Browser or with Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release). With other browsers such as other versions of the Firefox Browser or Microsoft Browsers the echo check and video broadcast might fail.

You can download the latest stable version of Chromium here:
chromium.woolyss.com/.
Information on how to switch Firefox to the ESR version can be found here:

English:
support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switch-to-firefox-extended-support-release-esr

German:
support.mozilla.org/de/kb/wechsel-zu-firefox-extended-support-release-esr-de