Postdoc Academy Masterclass: Break Procrastination and Perfectionism Habits

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The root cause for 20% of those who suffer from chronic procrastination is perfectionism. Other causes include overwhelm and over complexity of your workload.

This workshop will help you better understand and create mechanisms to manage the experience and impact of procrastination and perfectionism.

During this workshop, you will:

• understand your root causes of procrastination
• try out three different approaches to overcome procrastination
• understand how you can manage the downside of perfectionism.

Please note: when you book this course, on the booking confirmation page, select Add to Calendar to start importing the course to your calendar.

This is one of the formal development opportunities that you can engage with as part of your minimum 10 days (pro rata) of professional development under the Researcher Development Concordat (2019). To learn more about the Concordat, the responsibilities of the University and its research staff therein, please visit our Professional Development Guidance page.

Postdocs

If you do not have a CRSID or are otherwise unable to book via the UTBS booking system, please contact development.pda@admin.cam.ac.uk.

Number of sessions: 1

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This workshop will be facilitated by Caroline Broad.

Caroline delivers interactive workshops for researchers, enhancing their productivity, collaboration skills and wellbeing. She has twenty years’ experience facilitating teams and delivering skills training for researchers in STEM. She delivers productivity and wellbeing programmes for UCL, University of Cambridge, Queens University Belfast and Imperial College London.

1.5 hours