Kursusinformation

Research, long term experience as PhD coach and feed back from earlier participants at this course show that PhD students benefit immensely from being challenged to reflect on, discuss and experiment with their planning practice and the way they approach cooperation with supervisors and other important stakeholders.

The workshop will introduce and illustrate a method on how to plan your time on a daily and long term basis inspired by Steven Covey (2005) and the game plan approach from the world of coaching. The course will also work with the negotiation and conflict management approach from the Harvard Negotiation project (Stone, Patton and Heen, 2010) 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 practical exercises.

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

• Understand the challenges of project planning as a PhD student
• Reflect on ones own planning practice and the specific pittfalls and resources one poses
• Develop strategies to address those pittfalls and provide feedback 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 

• 2 consecutive days consisting of a mix of introductions and exercises individually and in groups.
• Two assignments 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: A detailed program will be send by email upon acceptance and in due time for preparations.

Course literature (Primary in bold): 
Covey, S.R. (2005). The seven habits of highly effective people. ISBN 9780743268165

Stone, D., Patton, B. and Heen, S. (2010). Difficult conversations. How to discuss what matters most. Penguin Books. London, England.

Patton, B. (2017). You can’t win by avoiding difficult conversations in Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing 3274, 553-557. Emerald Publishing Limited. ISSN 0885-8624

Heim, C. (2012). Tutorial facilitation in the humanities based on the tenets of Carl Rogers in Higher Education 63: 289-298. Springer. DOI 10.1007/s10734-011-9441-z

Prochaska, J. O. , Norcross, J.C and Diclemente, C.C. (2007). Changing for good.  A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward. HarperCollins Publishers, New York, USA.