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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

2.0 EC

Course programme

Course certificate

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

Course fee

GSLS PhD candidates: €0
UU/UMC academic staff: €875
External participants (space permitting): €1460
 

• GSLS PhD candidates are PhD candidates who are registered with the Graduate School of Life Sciences via MyPhD. 
• UU/UMC academic staff are PhD candidates of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� who are not registered to the Graduate School of Life Sciences via MyPhD, postdocs employed by Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� or UMC Utrecht and other academic staff employed at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� or UMC Utrecht.
• External participants are all other participants.

Our no-show policy

We are happy to offer workshops for free to all GSLS PhDs. However: free of charge does not mean free of responsibility. Our activities tend to be fully booked well in advance. For every late cancellation or no-show we have had to disappoint others who would have liked to attend. 

This is how we work: 

• Once you have signed up for a workshop, we expect you to attend;
• If you need to cancel your registration, do so at the earliest possible moment, at least four weeks before the start of the course;
• If you really have to, you are allowed to miss up to one session of this course in total. You always have to attend the first course session.
• Not meeting the attendance requirements or cancelling within four weeks before the course starts means you will be charged no-show fee (€440 for this course);
• We are unable to make any exceptions.

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