How to plan so that your graduate work blends easily with your life.compressed
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The document provides guidance on effectively planning graduate work to align with life goals through the integration of principles and time management techniques. It emphasizes the importance of self-awareness, proactive behaviors, and the role of negotiation in achieving balance between personal and academic responsibilities. Key resources and exercises are included to assist students in enhancing their effectiveness and maintaining a healthy work-life dynamic.
How to plan so that your graduate work blends easily with your life.compressed
- 1. How to plan so that your graduate work blends easily with your life
- 2. Goals for today… (amended) Compare your experience with others using this survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2018_general_5fs Help ensure you have the tools/ideas you need to sail through your graduate program this year. A bit of planning, a bit of having the right tools on hand and a good set of discipline and you are on your way!
- 3. Quotes from Stephen Covey The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions as well. 1 It becomes obvious that if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can focus on our attitudes and behaviors. Bit if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms. 2 Highly effective people really do not manage time – they manage themselves. 3
- 4. Agenda: How to plan so that your graduate work blends easily with your life This Discussion • the 5fs survey and what we know • Principles / Roles / Centeredness • The Covey Quadrant • Taking proactive to a new level: win/win • Now look at your life/work/graduate work • What we can Influence • Understanding before being understood • Tricks to maintain work-life balance • Planning your year graduate and otherwise • Exercise • Tools to help • What’s New at MN & DN? Comin Up Next… • How to LOVE Your Masters or Doctoral Work in 2018 • Beginning with the end in mind • What does it take to love something? • Connections • People • Your field • Others who like to think • Conferences • First things first • Moving from individual to interdependent strength • Dynamic or Static decisions? • Centeredness, getting your needs met w/o trapping yourself • Synergy • Sharpening the saw
- 5. What students say… The 5fs survey
- 6. Remember… Everyone taking this survey has already been successful at college education
- 8. The Place to Start… Principles / Roles / Centeredness
- 9. Principles There are basic principles of effective living, and people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character. No enterprise or person can become or remain truly great without a core set of principles to preserve, to build upon to serve as an anchor, to provide guidance in the face of an ever- changing world. Acting out of principle can be preventative such as preventing disease or problems by aligning with you lifestyle with the principles of harmony and actions of good health
- 10. What principles guide you?
- 11. What roles are you responsible for? • Parent • Teacher • Student • Friend • Boss or Employee • Leader • What matters most to you? • Your family • Your children • Your work • Your degree • Your future plans • Your friends • Having a good time Roles and Centered-ness
- 12. The Covey Quadrant How much of your time is in #2?
- 13. Quadrant 2 = Less Stress and More Satisfaction – Exercise at the End
- 14. Taking Proactive to a New Level: win/win
- 15. • How can your behavior in those groups not only advance what you need but he needs of others? • How can your behavior help everyone succeed? • How do your principles support those behaviors? • What roles are you fulfilling? What groups do you work in? Who do you work with?
- 16. Graduate / Postgraduate Work Taking these ideas into…
- 17. For an example… 1. The principle of cooperation is important to you 2. You take some extra time relationship building (Quad 2) 3. You learn that colleagues/committee chair have deadlines coming up (their Quad 1) 4. So you negotiate a different timing that you would have for your review Putting it together…
- 18. And what to do when we can’t What we can influence
- 19. Seligman’s research has shown that three people benefit from acts of kindness. The person to who was the giver, the receiver and anyone who witnessed the exchange. Covey says: The challenge is the same: how can we do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we have? (Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind) Influence
- 20. Before Working To be Understood Understanding
- 21. Self control Circle of Influence Outside of your control What you can influence & what you can’t In the example used before…. Can you influence…. 1. Your mood about turning in your work to your committee chair? 2. Your relationship with your committee chair? 3. The requirements of your university on committee chairs? 4. Whether their review is helpful to you? 5. Whether their review is turned right around?
- 22. Self control Circle of Influence Outside of your control 1. Someone who is crystal clear about what they want and why? 2. Someone who understands the full dynamic of needs and desires of both people? 3. Someone who knows the other is on their side? 4. Someone who is suspicious that they have to protect themselves from bad attitudes in the other? Who it the better negotiator?
- 23. Tricks to maintain work-life balance And to the Negotiation that Makes it Work
- 24. Focus on What You Can Do, Negotiate the Rest
- 25. Exercises
- 26. Exercise One Define for yourself… • Which of the 5fs is most frustrating to you? • What principles are the most important for you to live by? • What matters to you most and how does that sync with the principles you want to live by? • Which roles are in alignment? Which are likely to interfere? Spend time dreaming of ways in which these come closer together? Exercise Two 1. Look at Covey’s quadrant and plot your weekly activities. 2. What negotiations can you make with others to move more into quadrant 2? 3. Think about the people in your life… What more can you understand about them in order to deepen your relationship? 4. What aspects of your life and your relationships can you move to a more win/win level? 5. What do you want to influence but its outside of your control? What else can be influenced to improve the situation from another angle?
- 27. Tools: Planning Your Year Graduation? Advancement? & Everything Else For MN and DN Members
- 28. Tools for planning – sign onto your DN/MN Portal and then add this ending to the url… 1. Just starting – see the maps first under each menu • and milestones: https://resources.doctoralnet.com/other-resources/doctoral-milestone- checklist.html 2. Backwards map from graduation backwards to now – • Video: Strategic Planning for Graduate Students • What Does It Take to Graduate This Year? Part One: Backward-Mapping • Finish Your Dissertation in Two Years – Year Two • Planning and Time Management 3. What skills do you need more of (on your resources menu) 1. Academic writing (new boxed set): https://resources.doctoralnet.com/boxed-sets/academic- writing-tools-to-get-it-done.html 2. Writing habit: 30 day challenge https://resources.doctoralnet.com/optins/30-day-writing- challenge.html 3. Work-Life Balance: https://resources.doctoralnet.com/optins/30-day-challenge-4-work-life- balance.html 4. Motivation: https://resources.doctoralnet.com/optins/365-phd-motivation.html