Performing in the Storm: Navigate out of Feeling Overwhelmed (701)

13 January 2021

Dr Donatella Canella ; Dr Thomas Teichler

Performing in the Storm: Navigate out of Feeling Overwhelmed

Energy and Stress Management Workout Series: Workout #1

As a doctoral student 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. This may result in unrealistic expectations on what can be achieved in a day especially 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 (stay tuned for the following ones!), 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.

Every Workout is a standalone training that can be taken without attending the other Workouts.

This first Workout will help you to get out of the feeling of being overwhelmed by your tasks.

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

• recognize a situation in which you feel overwhelmed;
• know what specific factors trigger the overwhelm;
• acquire two simple yet effective tools to manage the situation in the new way: the choice mindset and the circle of influences

ONLINE !

Date: 13th January 2021

Schedule: 2 pm to 4:30 pm

Place: Online, on Zoom

Trainers:

Donatella is a certified Co-active coach and Leadership trainer and consultant. She also serves as faculty for The Coaches Training Institute (CTI), the largest in-person coaching and training institute in the world. She is visiting faculty for the full-time MBA program at the Ecole des Ponts in Paris and a managing partner for the Human Centric Leaders, an international alliance of cross functional leadership and team coaching experts. Donatella is passionate about individuals, teams and organizations seeking clarity and focus during times of change and uncertainty. Her work centres on leadership development, team dynamics, and career transition. Donatella holds a PhD in Molecular Biology from Michigan State University, USA and has worked at top universities in both Europe and the US, where she has served for 15 years as scientist, project manager, mentor and trainer and has published several scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals.
Thomas 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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