Deep Work – how to establish focused and concentrated work

 Learning goals:

• Strategies for Deep Work to stay more focused and be less distracted from social media or notifications
• One task, one focus – nothing else
• Defining and setting time for urgent and important tasks inline with my goals and creating regular time for achieving those
• Understanding my own motivation to work more focused
• Dealing with challenges, procrastination, and distractions

Content:

• How can I be more productive, especially for scientific tasks such as paper-writing or grant-applications?
• What is flow and how can I set the right framework to achieve flow states
• How do I avoid distractions and multi-tasking to stay in the flow
• Different self-management tools for Deep Work
• Why is Deep Work so important and how to differentiate it from Shallow Work?
• Deep Work for groups and in remote settings

Methods:

• (Short) keynote speeches and inputs by the trainer
• Room for personal exchange on the topic and opportunity to network among the participants
• Discussion in the plenary session on how to deal with limiting beliefs and experience with the imposter syndrome
• Individual exercises for self-reflection and mindset exercise
• Group exercise in breakout sessions
• Q&A    

Trainer: Dr. Dimitra Lountzi

Target audience: PhD-students and Post-Docs

Language: English

Duration: 1 day