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Course description

This evidence-based course helps you achieve your goals and become more effective in your PhD project, considering your personal situation. We’ll discuss how to set good goals and achieve them, how to structure and prioritize your work, how to get the most out of the people that you work with, and how to best manage your time and the risks in your project. Along the way, you’ll gain important insights into your personality, your personal strengths and your pitfalls.

Previous participants characterized the course as engaging, fun and open to interaction. One PhD candidate described it as “a course where you will not only learn the theory of how you should manage your project and yourself but will also discuss how you can directly implement it in your own situation.” For an overview of the subjects discussed in each session, please refer to the full course description.

Learning objectives

After this course, you will be able to set clear and effective goals, understand how you can structure and prioritize your work, and better manage your time and risk. You will also have a clear sense of your drivers, strengths and skills, guiding your future (career) choices. Finally, you will be more proficient in how you interact and collaborate with people in order to get things done and attain your goals.

Instructional method

The course provides an equal balance between theoretical background, discussions and exercises. It incorporates elements of industrial and organizational psychology, drawing from the research of prominent scientists.

The interactive group exercises will help you develop a solid understanding of the covered topics by putting the theory to practice using your own personal examples. During the course, participants are actively involved and encouraged to share their own experiences and insights.

Trainers

Michiel and Jacques Jongerden –

Group size

8 to 12 participants

Number of credits

1.0 EC

Course schedule

Study load

In addition to the scheduled sessions, you should take into account an extra study load of approximately 5 hours in total. This study load generally consists of homework assignments in preparation for the next session.

Course certificate

You will receive a course certificate after actively participating in all four training sessions.

Cancellation and No-show policy

This course is free for GSLS PhD candidates. However: free of charge does not mean free of responsibility. Once you have signed up for a course, we expect you to attend. For every late cancellation or no-show we have had to disappoint others who would have liked to attend. This is our policy:

• You may cancel free of charge up to 4 weeks before the start of the course. After this date you can only cancel if you have a GSLS PhD candidate to replace you in the course. Send the name and contact information of your replacement to pcc@uu.nl, at least 2 working days before the start of the course;
• We expect that you actively attend the full course, but at least 80%. It is mandatory to attend the first session. If you are absent the first session you cannot follow the remaining of the course;
• Not meeting the above requirements means you will be charged a no-show fee (€ 440). We will send the invoice after the course has ended. We are unable to make any exceptions, unless you have a valid reason (i.e., illness or death in the family 1^st/2^nd degree or partner). Your supervisor has to send an e-mail to pcc@uu.nl indicating the reason.

Unfortunately we don’t offer this course for participants not part of the GSLS. Our courses tend to be fully booked by GSLS PhD candidates.

I've learned how to keep my goals in sight, set challenges and get the most out of my PhD

I have gained insights into my personal characteristics and how those affect my work, and I have been given the tools to use those characteristics towards aiding me in my work

The tools you learn can be applied during your PhD track, but also after that during the rest of your career