Coping with your Postdoc in times of crisis (online training)

Coping with your Postdoc in times of crisis (online training)

Wednesday 12, Monday 17 and Friday 28 May 2021 (half-day)

Scope

This 3 half-day programme supports postdocs in identifying and tackling challenges that have come up as result of a crisis and how to stay in a positive flow of work and life.

Central elements that will be addressed:

• Consequences Covid in the career perspective given the fact that time is lost and one cannot reach the postdoc goals
• How to tackle a crisis situation in such a way that one remains functional
• Planning how to go further

Programme

Day 1 (12 May 2021): Identifying Challenges

• Introduction of course leaders, participants and the programme
• Human response to crisis (short introduction and workshop on how participants respond)
• Peer coaching: Helping each other to identify challenges and tackling them (introduction to Peer Coaching and forming groups)
• Making you challenges specific (individual SWOT analysis done in the peer coaching groups)
• Plenary reflection of challenges and final process of making the main challenges specific

Day 2 (17 May 2021): Tackling challenges

• Reflection on the main challenges brought forward on day 1
• How to tackle challenges? (taking responsibility, showing personal leadership, increasing your domain of influence)
• Making a SMART plan of action via a OGSM (again in Peer Coaching groups)
• Presentation of the OGSM
• Assignment for day 3: Peer coaching groups make a plan how to help each other in realising their OGSM

Day 3 (28 May 2021): Reflection and synthesis

• Feedback from Peer Coaching groups (how far did you get? Where did the OGSM go well and where did it fail)
• Reflection on the state of the art and how to take things further
• Adjustment of OGSM
• Planning of Peer Coaching sessions
• Closure

General information

Fees

Note:

• If you need an invoice to complete your payment, please send an email to office.pe@wur.nl, including ALL relevant details that should be mentioned on the invoice (e.g., purchase order no., specific addresses, attendees, etc.).
• Please make sure that your payment is arranged before the start of this course.
• It is the participant's responsibility to make sure that he/she (or his/her secretary) completes the payment correctly and in time.

PE&RC Cancellation Conditions

• Up to 1 (one) week prior to the start of the course, cancellation is free of charge.
• In case of cancellation within one week prior to the start of the course, a fee of € 150,- will be charged.
• If you do not show at all, a fee of € 300,- will nevertheless be charged.

Note: If you would like to cancel your registration, ALWAYS inform us (and do note that you will be kept to the cancellation conditions)

More information

Claudius van de Vijver (PE&RC)
Phone: +31 (0) 317 485116
Email: claudius.vandevijver@wur.nl

Registration

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