Project Management and Interpersonal Skills, Fall (2020)

Welcome to Project Management and Interpersonal Skills, Fall

 Description: This course is a practical ‘hands on’ workshop, which will support PhD students in their endeavors to manage the PhD project. The focus is twofold: 1) enhancing project management skills in a university culture that is characterized by unruly creative work, lack of formal structures and network organization. 2) Enhancing interpersonal skills, particularly in relation to the cooperation with supervisors and other important stakeholders.

The workshop will introduce and illustrate an easy and down to earth method on how to plan your time on a daily basis inspired by Steven Covey (2005) and the game plan approach from the world of coaching. The course will also work with the Core Quality Quadrant (Ofman, 2004) as a tool to explore interpersonal communication structure. Key issues in the relationship between PhD student and supervisor will be identified and analyzed by means of role-play.

There will be a possibility for an individual follow up coaching session after a month for those PhD students that find it beneficial.  

 Target group:

• PhD students preferably during their first year

 

Time schedule for the workshop: One workshop will be held in the spring and one in the fall

 

After the course the PhD student should be able to:

· Understand the challenges of project planning as a PhD student

· Reflect on ones own planning practice and the specific pittfalls one posess

· Develop strategies to address those pittfalls and provide feed back to other PhD students

· Practice a more realistic and efficient planning

· Understand the individual needs and challenges in specific cooperations with supervisors and other important stakeholders

· Apply important negotiating skills 


 Course structure:

  • 2 consecutive days consisting of a mix of introductions and exercises individually and in groups.
  • An assignment related to actual skills is to be send in before the workshop

 

Completion of the course: Handing in assignments and participating in the course are criteria for passing the course.

 

Course program: Will be send in a separat mailwink


Course literature:

Covey, Stephen R. The seven habits of highly effective people. 2005. ISBN 9780743268165

Ofman, D. Core. Qualities and the Core Quadrant. Core Quality International, 1999. ISBN 90 5594 1697.  7th edition 32013.

Phillips, E.M. & D.S. Pugh. How to get a PhD? A handbook for students and their supervisors (Third edition). Open University Press, Buckingham, 2000. P 235.

Prochaska, James O. et al. Changing for good. Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward. 1994/2008

 

Organizer and lecturer: Associate Professor Pia Bøgelund, e-mail: pb@plan.aau.dk and Associate Professor Aida Olivia Pereira de Carvalho Guerra, e-mail ag@plan.aau.dk

ECTS: 2

Time: 18-20 November 2020, from 09:00 to 16:00

Place: 18/11: Rendsburggade 14, fourth floor, room 517+ Rendsburggade 14, fourth floor, room 521 

19/11: Rendsburggade 14, fourth floor, room 517 + Rendsburggade 14, fourth floor, room 513

20/11: ONLINE

Zip code: 9000

City: Aalborg

Number of seats: 30 

Deadline: 28 October 2020

 

Important information concerning PhD courses: We have over some time experienced problems with no-show for both project and general courses. It has now reached a point where we are forced to take action. Therefore, the Doctoral School has decided to introduce a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start. This can hopefully also provide new students a chance to register for courses during the year. We look forward to your registrations.