Blockveranstaltung: Time and Project Management with "Fast Forward - The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers" - Details

Blockveranstaltung: Time and Project Management with "Fast Forward - The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers" - Details

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Course name Blockveranstaltung: Time and Project Management with "Fast Forward - The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers"
Subtitle
Course number 340420
Semester SoSe 2020
Current number of participants 11
maximum number of participants 15
Home institute Göttinger Graduiertenzentrum für Neurowissenschaften, Biophysik und molekulare Biowissenschaften (GGNB)
Courses type Blockveranstaltung in category Teaching
First date Monday, 27.04.2020 (all-day)
Type/Form
Participants Target group: late-stage GGNB and GAUSS doctoral students
Pre-requisites This is a 7-weeks online course.

Requirements: firm commitment to spend between 4 and 5 hours minimum per week on this course (Q&A session, workbooks and templates to be completed, …)
Learning organisation This workshop is an online workshop running for 7 weeks including

* 7 results-oriented implementation modules
* A private social media community
* 12 downloadable workbooks & templates (have to be completed during the course)
* 7 weekly live Q&A coaching sessions with the trainer Nadine Sinclair

The weekly workload is approx. 4-5 hours (around 45 mins. per day)!
ECTS points 2

Rooms and times

No room preference
Monday: 00:01 - 23:59, weekly(6x)

Comment/Description

The course is given by Dr. Nadine Sinclair.

After more than five years of working for one of the most prestigious management consulting firms, Nadine set up her own ventures. Since then, she has been running several companies at the same time while travelling for 4-5 months every year, often asking herself what would have happened, if she had learned these skills earlier in her career when she was still in research. This program integrates her lessons and insights from the past 10 years of working with the top minds in consulting and industry, talking and listening to productivity experts and reading thousands and thousands of pages on the topic of productivity, learning and stress reduction.


Achieve amazing productivity and reduce your stress levels in 7 weeks by implementing the productivity secrets that allows management consultants and high-performing industry teams to generate results quickly.

Learn from an expert how powerful and transformative a simple and robust productivity system can be. Participate in this implementation program, which is a 7-week coaching program designed to help you implement an agile project and time management system in your research projects. It will transform the way you work and help you achieve new levels of clarity, focus and momentum in your projects, while reducing your stress levels.

Please check out the [course webpage][1] for further information on what the Fast Forward program includes in detail, how it works, how long the online material is accessible etc. before signing up!

-        Start Date: Monday, 27 April 2020

-        Format: online course with a kick-off meeting  in Göttingen before the start of the course (date tba)

-        Duration: 7 consecutive weeks with weekly Q&A session every Wednesday at 5pm with a duration of approx. 1 h each (mandatory), weekly workload approx. 4-5 hours

-        Requirements:

* Late stage PhD students
* firm commitment to spend between 4 and 5 hours minimum per week on this course (Q&A session, workbooks and templates to be completed, …)

-        Target group: Late-stage PhD students who would like to add effective project management to their skillset und apply the principles to their own research supported by an implementation phase offered during this course.

-        Max. number of participants: 15

-        Webpage: https://fastforward.mindmatters.pro/

-        Registration: in Stud.IP from 1-20 February 2020

-        Credits / Certificate: After successfully completing the workshop (this includes completing the different modules and assignments AND attending the Q&A sessions), doctoral students will receive a certificate and 2 credits (category: key qualifications).

Important:

* This course is very rewarding (see comments from former participants) but be aware that it is much more intensive and needs much more time than a one- or two-day workshop on campus. Only sign up if you are absolutely certain that you can make time for the tasks!
* If you miss more than one of the Q&A sessions you will not receive a certificate nor any credits.
* If you drop out during the course without good reason you may be asked to partially reimburse the course fees to GGNB

Once you have been enrolled in the course 

* You will receive the course agreement with details about the prerequisites for being awarded credits and certificates (i.e. completion of all modules, participation in Q&A Sessions, completion of assignments), confidentiality and intellectual property
* Once you have signed the course agreement electronically, you will receive a welcome email with your access details to the course and the invitation to the group
* You can access the Getting Started Module straight away, the remaining modules will be released one at a time every week
* The first module will be released on 27 April 2020 and the first Q&A Session will be on 29 April at 5pm CET.

 Comments from former participants:

* This 7-week long intensive online workshop increases work productivity without having to leave the work or office ecosystem. Well suited for laboratory scientists.
* This course was very interactive, very well structured and full of lessons that make your life easier, your work more efficient and bring you closer to your goals. You need to know that it takes some commitment and time but it's totally worth it.
* I learned the reason why I could not reach my goals in spite of hard work. The workshop showed me how to define realistic step stones towards my goals and to regain control over my own schedule, avoiding tasks that just kept me busy.
* A very informative workshop with practical applications. You will definitely see an improvement in your productivity.
* The Fast Forward workshop was everything I hoped for. It addressed how to manage a project and how to increase my academic productivity. It brought methodologies from the private sector world into academia and specifically ones that are prevalent start-up culture; a high uncertainty environment that in this sense is akin to research.
* This workshop helps you implement time-management routines in your everyday life.

[1]: https://fastforward.mindmatters.pro/

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "GGNB_Skills_2020_SoSe_February_April".
You can register and sign out for courses in March from 1-20 February. The slots will be assigned around 25 February.
You can still sign out until 29 February.
Your participation becomes binding on 1 March. Thereafter, cancellation is only possible with a) sick certificate, or b) statement by supervisor. If you do not provide this, you will be excluded from courses for the current and next semester, as well as travel grants and other financial support.
By signing up you agree (1) to frequently check your student e-mail account, as all information on courses will exclusively be sent to that account; (2) that your name and e-mail address may be forwarded to the course instructor(s) for communication before and after the course.
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • Enrolment is allowed for up to 2 courses of the admission set.
  • At least one of these conditions must be fulfilled for enrolment:
    • Degree is PromProgramm Cotutelle
    • Degree is Promotion m.Abschlussprfg
    • Degree is Promotionsstudiengang
    • Degree is Promotionsprogramm
  • The following categories of people are preferred during seat allocation:

    Higher semesters will be preferred.
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats in the affected courses have been assigned at 21.02.2020 on 11:46. Additional seats may be available via a wait list.
  • At least one of these conditions must be fulfilled for enrolment:
      • Subject is Biologische Diversität und Ökologie
      • Subject is Psychologie
      • Subject is Biologie
      • Subject is BioNutz-MolwissBiotechnol
      • Subject is Materialforschung Holz
      • Subject is Umweltinformatik
      • Subject is Geographie
      • Subject is Environmental Informatics
      • Subject is Behavior and Cognition
      • Subject is Computer Science -PCS-
      • Subject is Mathematical Sciences
      • Subject is Geoscience
      • Subject is Physik
      • Subject is MetalSites i.Biomolecules
      • Subject is Catalysis Sust.Synt.CaSuS
      • Subject is Chemie
      • Subject is Theoret Computat Neurosci
      • Subject is Systems Neuroscience
      • Subject is Microbiology-Biochemistry
      • Subject is Genome Science
      • Subject is IRTG 2172 - PRoTECT
      • Subject is SensoryMotor Neuroscience
      • Subject is MolecularPhysi oftheBrain
      • Subject is Molekulare Biologie
      • Subject is Neurowissenschaften
      • Subject is MolecularBiology of Cells
      • Subject is Biomol:Struc-Func-Dynamic
      • Subject is Molekulare Medizin
      • Subject is Emerging Infect. Diseases
      • Subject is PhysicsBiologComplexSyste
      • Subject is Genes in Development, Disease and Evolution
      • Subject is Geography
  • The enrolment is possible from 01.02.2020, 00:00 to 20.02.2020, 23:59.
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