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