Coping with your Postdoc in times of crisis – GEANNULEERD

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