Time Management and Self-Organisation in Academia

To succeed in academia requires excellent professional skills and also effective self-organisation that integrates research, teaching, and administration into a balanced life. This book offers adapted tools for time management and explains scholarly project management, stress prevention, and life planning. Its practical questions and exercises lead to a personalised approach to the challenges of an academic career.

Auteur
Dr. Andrea Tschirf ist Beraterin und Trainerin im Wissenschaftsbereich.

Texte du rabat
Can I be a successful scholar and also have a fulfilling and happy life? Do the usual time-management techniques help achieve this goal? How should these techniques be modified in order to provide appropriate help with the very different tasks involved in research, teaching, student support, administration, and leadership? This book presents methods adapted to the unique challenges of academia for managing time and projects while also offering ways to prevent stress, increase motivation, and plan for a successful life integrating all your interests and values. The authors take a holistic approach. They assume that working in academia while entirely focused on career success is not the only option, nor is it the best option.

Contenu
How This Book Will Help You 7 I. Specific Challenges in Academic LifeInstitutional Factors 11 II. Specific ChallengesIndividual Factors 23 1. Knowing myself: Individual behaviour style 23 2. My goals, roles, and values: Basis for my orientation 34 3. Career planning, balance, and integration in my life 46 III. Managing Personal EnergyFrom Distress to Flow 61 1. Distress and eustress 61 2. Allocating, using, and strengthening my energies 75 IV. Effective Planning and Evaluation Methods 93 1. Principles 93 2. Task management 100 3. Priorities 108 4. Achieving goals 114 5. Planning top-down to organise the next day 124 6. Mastering my time thieves 140 7. Evaluation 148 8. Systems for time management 155 V. Order 163 1. Information and communication 163 2. Workplace and archives 171 VI. Time Management for the Main Fields of Academic Activity 179 1. Research 179 2. Teaching, supervision, and mentoring of students 204 3. Administrative and leadership tasks 213 4. Networking, external exchange, service, and transfer 223 Further Support and Literature 229 The Authors 239