Managing yourself, managing change, managing time

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Managing yourself, managing change, managing time

• Pauline Kneale

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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

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• University life is all about
• CHANGE
• What words do CHANGE evoke

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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

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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.

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Developing an idea to a paper / grant
Planning
Educating
Vision
Delivering
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Developing an idea to a paper / grant
E D U C A T I N G 15
DELIVERING 75
V I S I O N 5
P L A N N I N G 5
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Developing an idea to a paper / grant
E D U C A T I N G 15
DELIVERING 75
V I S I O N 5
P L A N N I N G 5
This needs time and support
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Using a Force Field Analysis

• Driving Forces

• Restraining Forces

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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 dont value it
• PGs think it a waste of time
• No perceived benefit

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How can we make the situation worse
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How can the situation be worse
School requires weekly records of meetings
Procedures change each year
Your research student will not co-operate
Very complex form takes an hour to complete
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Then plan from the converse

• In 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

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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

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What does a rubbish academic look like?
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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

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STYLE 1 STYLE 1 STYLE 1 STYLE 1
THIS WEEK NEXT WEEK COMING UP Non Academic

STYLE 2 STYLE 2 STYLE 2 STYLE 2
REALLY URGENT VITAL COMING UP EVENTUALLY

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Tasks
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Developing a Planner
Papers Research topics Learning and Teaching topics
Revising
With Jnl / Editor
Drafting
Ideas to follow up
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Research Projects Papers Res LT
Current field / lab / writing Funding / next grant Dissemination conferences dates funding Revising
Current field / lab / writing Funding / next grant Dissemination conferences dates funding With Jnl / Editor
Research CPD Drafting
Conference Workshop Dates Funding Ideas to follow up
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Teaching Projects Research Projects Papers Res / LT
Teaching Admin CPD Conferences Workshops Current field lab writing Funding / next grant Dissemination conferences dates funding Revising
Teaching Admin CPD Conferences Workshops Current field lab writing Funding / next grant Dissemination conferences dates funding With Jnl / Editor
Research CPD Drafting
Conference Workshop Dates Funding Ideas to follow up
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Teaching Projects Research Projects Papers Res / LT
Teaching Admin CPD Conferences Workshops Current field lab writing Funding / next grant Dissemination conferences dates funding Revising
Teaching Admin CPD Conferences Workshops Current field lab writing Funding / next grant Dissemination conferences dates funding 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
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Urgent Tasks Teaching Projects Research Projects Papers Res / LT
Teaching Admin CPD Conferences Workshops Current field lab writing Funds/nxt grant Dissemination conferences dates funding Revising
Teaching Admin CPD Conferences Workshops Current field lab writing Funds/nxt grant Dissemination conferences dates funding 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
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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?