Time Management - Improving your personal effectiveness

Semester

Semester 2, 2023-2024

Type of course

Methodological and Practical Courses

Date

March 19 and March 20, 2024

Location

Online

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Duration

2 days

Maximum number of participants

20

ECTS

0.5 EC will be appointed for participation in the complete course

Staff

Anjana Ahnfeldt

Content

Many doctoral students experience time-related demands, such as time pressure or interruptions at work. Keywords such as acceleration, e-mail flood, balance between teaching and writing the doctoral thesis or the blurring of work and leisure time bring the topic of time into focus. Thus, doctoral students rightly ask themselves how they can deal with such time-related demands. How do they set themselves realistic goals? How do they weigh up priorities? How can schedules be set up to motivate start working and to decrease procrastination? The improvement of personal time management is one possible answer. We cannot manage time. But we can manage ourselves within the context of time! 

Learning goals

1. Becoming aware of the antecedents of time management: one’s personality, attitude toward time management, social norms, and perceived behavioral control.
2. Setting smart goals for the next PhD project(s).
3. Developing milestones plan to keep the plan and achieve the goal.
4. Learning how to set priorities correctly.
5. Learning how to set up realistic plans and how daily planning can foster motivation.
6. Collecting time-related problems doctoral students must cope with and finding helpful strategies to overcome these problems.
7. Becoming aware of the power of monitoring and rewarding.

→ Improving self-efficacy and increase the intention to use time management