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Workshop
Tuesday
18
October
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Your PhD in Context: Manage Yourself and Improve Effectiveness

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While undertaking a PhD is in itself a noble and worthwhile endeavour, it is necessary to put your project in perspective with your career planning as well with your other workload and work-life balance.
But how to go about situating each step of your PhD project within the big picture of your career planning and not lose track of your objectives?

The logical framework is a very pertinent approach to get the big picture, define objectives and resources (such as time, energy, material…) and follow the right path. The Logical Framework Approach (LFA) is a methodology originally used by managers for designing, monitoring, and evaluating international development projects.

This interactive 2-days workshop will help you to situate each step of your PhD project within your career planning by helping you conceptualize and implement your own LogFrame. The Logical Framework will also be linked to a Gantt Chart / timeline, allowing you to efficiently manage your resources, such as time, energy and material.

The clarification obtained by the tool will also allow you to better communicate the advancement of the PhD project to your supervisor and scientific community.

Furthermore, you will gain useful skills for your future career be it within academia, in the field of NGO or in the private sector.

The Log Frame approach will be completed by a range of concrete tools helping to overcome fear of failing, procrastination and improve your daily time management and your work-life balance.

 

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS COURSE IS ALREADY FULLY BOOKED

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Agenda

• Presentation of LogFrames by the participants
• How to schedule and integrate workload, Introduction to different Time Management tools
• Introduction to Gantt Charts
• Specific time management tools: Eisenhower Matrix
• Tools for overcoming overly high quality expectations and impostor syndrom


Learning outcomes


At the end of this workshop participants will be able to:


• Define and implement their individual logical framework
• Establish a causal link between inputs, processes, outputs, outcomes and objectives (vertical logic);
• Define the assumptions on which the project logic builds;
• Identify the potential risks for achieving objectives and outcomes;
• Define indicators for monitoring the advancement of their PhD project
• Avoid procrastination and achieve a better work-life balance
• Better communicate the advancement of their PhD project to their supervisor and the scientific community
• Be able to use several time management tools

 

More information: https://www.cuso.ch/activity/?p=1203&uid=6437&lang=fr