Performing in the Storm (WO 3): From Feeling Stuck to Taking Skillful Action (703)

14 February 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 during the lockdown.

All this may result in unrealistic expectations on what can be achieved in a day especially in times like these, when opportunities for balancing activities like sports or seeing friends are severely limited. 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.

Workout #3 was designed for those times in which you feel stuck and feel you have no options in life and /or at work. You will focus on how to shift your mindset and to generate additional ideas.

By the end of the Workout you will :

- have gone through six powerful steps and shifted from "there's nothing I can do about this" to "I am able to look at this situation with new eyes and make a different, more meaningful choice";

- be more conscious about all the opportunities that are available to you in life.

ONLINE !

Date: Monday, 14th February 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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