Description
(Text)
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.
(Table of content)
How This Book Will Help You 7I. Specific Challenges in Academic Life-Institutional Factors 11II. Specific Challenges-Individual Factors231. Knowing myself: Individual behaviour style232. My goals, roles, and values: Basis for my orientation343. Career planning, balance, and integration in my life46III. Managing Personal Energy-From Distress to Flow611. Distress and eustress612. Allocating, using, and strengthening my energies75IV. Effective Planning and Evaluation Methods931. Principles932. Task management1003. Priorities1084. Achieving goals1145. Planning top-down to organise the next day1246. Mastering my time thieves1407. Evaluation1488. Systems for time management155V. Order1631. Information and communication1632. Workplace and archives171VI. Time Management for the Main Fields of Academic Activity 1791. Research1792. Teaching, supervision, and mentoring of students2043. Administrative and leadership tasks2134. Networking, external exchange, service, and transfer223Further Support and Literature229The Authors239
(Author portrait)
Prof. Dr. Markus Riedenauer lehrt an der Katholischen Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.Dr. Andrea Tschirf ist Beraterin und Trainerin im Wissenschaftsbereich.
