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Managing yourself, managing change, managing time
Pauline Kneale
Career and personal management
• Only you will manage your career
• Heads of School etc will guide / advise / interfere / …
• You are on your own.
• OR ARE YOU – networks: local / regional / national / international
University life is all about
CHANGE
What words do CHANGE evoke
Change
• Risk is the threat of Change leads to feeling insecure
• Negative responses / helplessness• Some people become polarised around winner /
loser• But continuum• Fight to survive or Civilised and planned
development• Remember you and colleagues will respond
emotionally• Logic will therefore not always be in evidence
Benefits of Planning
• Planning helps with directions
• Lets you keep an eye on the big picture despite the local, daily incidents
• Helps with security
• You can and will change plans but it should help you make sure you get your quota of research and quota of holidays.
Planning Educating DeliveringVision
Developing an idea to a paper / grant
PLANNING
5%
EDUCATING
15%
DELIVERING
75%
VISION
5%
Developing an idea to a paper / grant
PLANNING
5%
EDUCATING
15%
DELIVERING
75%
VISION
5%
Developing an idea to a paper / grant
This needs time and support
Using a Force Field Analysis
• Driving Forces • Restraining Forces
Keeping Records of PG Supervisions
• Driving Forces
• School demands it• University demands it• Staff like it• PGs want it• Perceived benefits,
PDP links
• Restraining Forces
• Involves work• Offends ones
professionalism• Staff don’t value it• PGs think it a waste of
time• No perceived benefit
How can we make the situation worse
How can the situation be worseSchool requires weekly records of meetings
Your research student will not co-operate
Procedures change each year
Very complex form takes an hour to complete
Then plan from the converseIn order to manage my pgs well I will: • Explain to my postgrads why this is a useful
process, benefits of planning and protection if a supervisor goes awol / ill / fieldwork.
• Make sure each form has an action plan that is reasonable for the next time slot, and start each supervision with reference to the plan so the system has a place and value. Not just the minutes of your meeting.
• Develop a logical writing and filing system for me and my pg
• Push for rewards to staff who are good pg tutors, argue for time in the workload model
What would I look like as a World Class researcher?
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What would I look like as a World Class academic?
• Driving Forces • Restraining Forces
What does a rubbish academic look like?
Then plan from the converseTo be a world class academic I will
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Academic Plans
• 10 Year Challenge
• 5 Year Challenge
• 1 year Challenge
• Semester Challenge
• This week
• Sharing our approaches
STYLE 1
THIS WEEK
NEXT WEEK
COMING UP Non Academic
STYLE 2
REALLY URGENT
VITAL COMING UP EVENTUALLY
Weekly PlannersTasks
6-9 9-11 11-1 1-2 2-4 4-6 6-9 9
M
T
W
T
F
S
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Developing a Planner
Papers: Research topics
Learning and Teaching topics
Revising
With Jnl / Editor
Drafting
Ideas to follow up
Research Projects Papers:
Res L&T
Current – field / lab / writing
Funding / next grant
Dissemination – conferences: dates funding
Revising
With Jnl / Editor
Research CPD Drafting
Conference Workshop
Dates
Funding
Ideas to follow up
Teaching Projects Research Projects
Papers:Res / L&T
Teaching
Admin
CPD
Conferences
Workshops
Current – field lab writing
Funding / next grant
Dissemination – conferences: dates funding
Revising
With Jnl / Editor
Research CPD Drafting
Conference Workshop
Dates Funding
Ideas to follow up
Teaching Projects Research Projects
Papers:Res / L&T
Teaching
Admin
CPD
Conferences
Workshops
Current – field lab writing
Funding / next grant
Dissemination – conferences: dates funding
Revising
With Jnl / Editor
Personal Development
Research CPD Drafting
What do I do now to do X in y years
Conference Workshop
Dates Funding
Ideas to follow up
Urgent Tasks
Teaching Projects Research Projects
Papers:Res / L&T
Teaching
Admin
CPD
Conferences
Workshops
Current – field lab writing
Funds/nxt grant
Dissemination – conferences: dates funding
Revising
With Jnl / Editor
REAL LIFE
Personal Development
Research CPD
Drafting
Sport
Family
Hobbies
What do I do now to do X in Y years
Conference Workshop
Dates Funding
Ideas to follow up
Setting Priorities
• What is the worst you could do??• Life happens BUT• Lists or Tables or Spider Diagrams or …?• What is Urgent?• How often should you revisit your plan?• What do the tutors here today do?• What are you going to take away from this
session?