Preparations¶

Questions to Participants¶

Getting your participants on board early on makes preparing and conducting the workshop easier. Below you find example questions for a pre-workshop survey:

What would you like to achieve in the workshop?
What are typical activities in your work day?
What have you already learned about time management?
What examples of good time management do you know?
Please describe a situation where Time Management is relevant to you.
Which techniques for Time Management are you familiar with?
What else is important for you in a successful workshop?

Material for Presenting¶

You find diagrams and cartoons on https://github.com/krother/Time_Management_for_Scientists. You can create slides out of them or print them and put them on a table.

Please feel free to use the images in any context you like, given that you mention the author and include the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0 copyright notice.

Material for Exercises¶

You find some exercises on https://github.com/krother/Time_Management_for_Scientists/tree/master/trainers_guide. The license model is the same as for the images.

In the next sections you find suggestions what you can do with it.

List of activities¶

Pick your favourite activities from the table:

time	activity	purpose
1'	Open the workshop	START
2'	Measuring a minute	warm-up
5'	Quotes on time	warm-up
20'	Team Challenge	warm-up
20'	Presentation	new content
15'	Managing Tasks: Covey Matrix	new content
10'	Managing Tasks: Five Options	new content
10'	Managing Tasks: Saying No	new content
15'	Solving problems	application
15'	Poster session	application
10'-30'	Q & A session	wrap-up
5'	summary & feedback	wrap-up
1'	Close the workshop	END

Room¶

Before you start, spend some time thinking about how the room will affect the training situation. Things to consider:

How many people do you expect?
Will it be spatious or crowded?
What ways to show visual material are available?
Do participants have tables to take notes or draw?
Can you expect to be safe from being disturbed?