Time Management and Self-Organisation in Academia (eBook)

Developing a self-directed and balanced life

Andrea Tschirf, Markus Riedenauer (Autoren)

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2021 | 1. Auflage
240 Seiten
utb. (Verlag)
978-3-8463-5703-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

How This Book Will Help You 7
I. Specific Challenges in Academic Life—Institutional Factors 11
II. Specific Challenges—Individual Factors23
1. Knowing myself: Individual behaviour style23
2. My goals, roles, and values: Basis for my orientation34
3. Career planning, balance, and integration in my life46
III. Managing Personal Energy—From Distress to Flow61
1. Distress and eustress61
2. Allocating, using, and strengthening my energies75
IV. Effective Planning and Evaluation Methods93
1. Principles93
2. Task management100
3. Priorities108
4. Achieving goals114
5. Planning top-down to organise the next day124
6. Mastering my time thieves140
7. Evaluation148
8. Systems for time management155
V. Order163
1. Information and communication163
2. Workplace and archives171
VI. Time Management for the Main Fields of Academic Activity 179
1. Research179
2. Teaching, supervision, and mentoring of students204
3. Administrative and leadership tasks213
4. Networking, external exchange, service, and transfer223
Further Support and Literature229
The Authors239

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.10.2021
• Verlagsort: Stuttgart
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere
• Schlagworte: Bachelor's degree • bachelor thesis • Dissertation • doctorate • Key Competence • Language of science • Lebensplanung • master's degree • Project Management • self-management • Self-Organization • seminar paper • Strategies • stress prevention • students • Study • term paper • Textbook • Time Management • Wissenschaft • working scientifically • writing help • Writing scientifically • Writing scientifically correctly • Zeitmanagement
• ISBN-10: 3-8463-5703-0 / 3846357030
• ISBN-13: 978-3-8463-5703-3 / 9783846357033