Goals of this course:
• Know how to use powerful time planning methods
• Know how to balance professional and private life
• Know how to control your inner state using concentration and relaxation techniques
• Exchange of experiences with other participants
Content:
Fundamental requirements for good time management during your doctorate:
• Making decisions and developing initiative
• Is my research topic small enough: What exactly do I want to examine?
• How can I motivate myself on the path to completing it? How does this path look like?
Strategies for efficient and effective use of time
• Time planning and the research project: master plan, weekly and daily planning
• Setting priorities (Eisenhower Method, Pareto Principle)
• Finding your balance: research project – job – private life
• Getting rid of time-killers
• Using high concentration techniques (silent hour, Pomodoro Technique)
• Controlling your inner state through relaxation techniques
Methods:
Trainer input; individual, partner, and group work; written and creative focusing exer-cises; relaxation exercises; guided and free sequences in which participants can develop images; brief presentations by participants; group reflection. Highly interactive online seminar using zoom technology with a lot of small group work.
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This workshop is part of the transferable skills portfolio of the PIER Education platform on the science campus Bahrenfeld/DESY. The workshops are usually one-day courses for a maximum number of 12-15 participants and are offered once or twice a year. The trainers are carefully selected experts with many years of experience in teaching scientists. Some of the workshops are open for postdocs.
The workshops offered in the PIER Education Platform are a cooperation between the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School and its partner organisations and institutes Quantum Universe Research School QURS, the Collaborative Research Center SFB 925, The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging CUI, the International Max Planck Research School for Ultrafast Imaging & Structural Dynamics IMPRS-UFAST, DASHH, the Centre for Structural Systems Biology CSSB, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory EMBL and HELIOS.
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