Performing in the Storm: Take Charge of Your Time by Setting Firm Boundaries - the Power of a Positive "No" (710)

9 November 2022

Dr Thomas Teichler

As a doctoral candidate or researcher, you may face an increasing demand on your time: there is a continuous flow of tasks, emails, and meetings calling for your immediate attention next to your own ambitious projects. Moreover, there is the mental pressure resulting from working from home.

All this may result in unrealistic expectations on what can be achieved in a day. Eventually, even high performers struggle to stay motivated and to deliver and end up depleted until, inevitably, performance will drop. Then it is important to rebound quickly. Our Workouts are highly experiential and intensive. You work on your own life situation. Therefore, we ask you to bring a story to share that is relevant to the topic. In each Workout, you will learn how to shift your mindset, acquire one or two state-of-the-art techniques for your self-management, and create a practice that will help you to navigate stressful situations in the future. They workouts two and half hours and are limited to 18 participants. Every Workout is a standalone training that can be taken without attending the other Workouts.

In the workplace more often than not we find ourselves in situations where we would like to say 'No' ...yet we end up saying 'yes', often out of fear of hurting people or destroying important relationships. Often we later regret our failure to establish clear and firm boundaries. In this workout, participants will learn the important art of giving a 'positive no' through a simple and proven three-step technique.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this Workout participants will:

• acquired an increased self-awareness about setting boundaries
• shared with other participants about their experiences
• learned three ways of how to respond to unexpected requests, and
• practiced giving a 'positive no' through a simple and proven three-step technique.
  
  
  

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Date : Wednesday 9th November 2022

Schedule: 10 am to 12:30

Place: Online, on Zoom

Trainer:

Dr Thomas Teichler is a certified Co-active coach, trainer and consultant on leadership, team development, and change management. After a few years with Roland Berger Strategy Consultants he set up his own market research and coaching business, before writing a PhD about science cooperation in the high-tech and security sector at the European University Institute in Florence. As a policy consultant Thomas worked for the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research at Manchester Business School in the UK and for Technopolis Group in Germany. He advised the European Commission, national governments and international organizations on research and innovation policy. He trains doctoral students and post-docs at universities in Switzerland and Germany, as well as the Max Planck Society.

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