“No way! The deadline is next month already…?” Postdocs need to be able to manage a wide variety of projects, including research, tutoring, teaching and spending sufficient time with your own family. It takes good project and time management to use the resources available to you in the best possible way. This workshop offers different methods and strategies to help you achieve this, with a focus on real-life situations and acute needs. The goal is to reflect on and pragmatically adjust work and self-organization and the highest-priority projects are managed in the best possible way.

As an academic with your own demanding research project, the number of challenges facing you once the PhD thesis has been successfully concluded will not decrease. Peer coaching is the perfect platform for talking about your own project to others and giving each other mutual support. The multitasking you need to cope with as a researcher, teacher, manager and private individual can seem an impossible hurdle to overcome, yet the problems it brings can be reassessed and restructured on the basis of feedback and consultation. The kick-off workshop will give you an idea of how peer coaching teams work and will guide you through a trial session.

“If only there was someone to encourage me now and again!” Many people feel left alone when writing their PhD thesis. Having the chance to talk to others about it, receive support and feel a sense of appreciation are not automatically part of the process. As a result, it can be quite difficult to give the project the priority it requires and work on it with discipline. Peer coaching in a PhD team with four to six peers will give you the chance to not only discuss problems, but also find medium-term and long-term solutions for them.