Workshop: Self-, Time-, & Project Management (all stages PhD students)

Wednesday, February 07, 2024 from 9am to 5pm
Thursday, February 08, 2024 from 9am to 5pm

(equivalent to 1 CP

Short description: The aim is to provide doctoral students with tools for their specific environment characterized by a large variety of tasks, at times very high workload, the need to distinguish between the urgent and the important and to organize and motivate themselves. The focus will be on self-management, time management and project management. With an introduction to project planning, the participants receive a structuring aid for their doctoral thesis and other scientific projects. Participants quickly learn to apply new approaches and techniques to test their effectiveness. The tools have proven to make the participants’ personal approach to work more effective – both during training and later in the professional environment.

Based on participants’ feedback from the last two years, the course was slightly restructured to focus more on the time and project management tools. For more details, please see the attachment.

We particularly recommend the course for PhDs in their first and second year, but all are welcome.

Course fee: This course is 230 € for the entire course (please get the ok from your coordinator first).

Registration:
Please send an e-mail to imprs-office@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de if you would like to register for the course (include your program coordinator in cc). IMPRS-IDI students, please use the course booking tool in the student management system to register.

Please remember, if you register for a course, registration is binding. If you have to cancel due to a serious unforeseen reason, please contact us asap to give participants on the waiting list a chance to take your spot. If you do not show up for a course without prior notice (or a doctor's certificate), we will charge your course budget/your program budget and you will receive lower priority for further course bookings.

Trainer Profile
Sabine Lerch has 18 years of experience working in technical-scientific companies in various
positions. As Human Resources Manager she was responsible for the professional
development of technical experts and leaders.
In 2003 Sabine Lerch founded “Soft Skills for Science” and since then she is self-employed
as Trainer, Systemic Coach and Business Mediator. For many years she has given
workshops and provided individual guidance for international PhD students and PostDocs as
well as for Coordinators and Supervisors at Max Planck and Helmholtz-Institutes,
Universities and Graduate Schools/Centres all over Germany. She is thus very familiar with
different perspectives of Leadership.