Does your graduate program offer training and coaching in time management and organization at a departmental level?
Project Management for Academics will help your graduate students organize their life and manage their responsibilities in your program.
Background
Effective time management has been associated with stronger academic performance as well as lower levels of stress and anxiety in students. However, many graduate students find it difficult to balance their coursework, research, assistantships, and their interpersonal relationships. The lack of time mastery and productivity skills can translate to early struggles in graduate school. The philosophy of The Academic Society LLC is that mindset, time management, and productivity are essential tools for grad school success.
Learning Outcomes
The grad students will learn and implement a repeatable time management method for breaking down big goals into smaller, more manageable steps. The students will learn how to create realistic timelines and set up accountability measures to achieve their big goals.
Goal
The grad students will learn and implement the Project Management for Academics Framework to manage all components of their lives by getting a bird’s eye view of the major aspects of their lives and slowly zooming in to the day to day tasks to help intentionally make progress toward their goals.
In Project Management for Academics, we help your students break down their goals into projects, workflows, and tasks through our project management framework. Then we show them how to IMPLEMENT it in a paper planner as well as online project management tools, Trello, Asana, and ClickUp.
Project Management for Academics
Project Management for Academics is created and taught by Dr. Toyin Alli from The Academic Society LLC and designed for graduate students to learn to set realistic goals, organize their lives, and manage their time. The program includes 18 prerecorded video lessons with actionable steps for the students to complete for each lesson. The program also includes a planning workbook and access to live planning sessions with other grad students.
How Project Management for Academics Works
The course is self-paced and can be completed whenever your students are ready to complete it. In each module, your students will be given assignments and action steps to help them organize their academic and personal lives. Upon completion of the program, your students will have a system for scheduling tasks as well as a completed planner. I highly recommend that your students work through this program at the start of every semester or every month as needed. I know that, as an academic, your students are super extremely busy, so I’ve cut out the fluff and I’m only giving the most necessary and helpful information and assignments. From start to finish, the program should take between 2-3 hours.
Project Management for Academics includes the following:
Video Lessons
Module 1: Goal Setting
The students will learn to set realistic goals, prioritize them, and develop actionable tasks related to those goals.
Module 2: Projects
The students will learn about the field of project management and what it looks like in academia. The students will also define what projects look like for them in their own program.
Module 3: Project Management Framework
The students will learn to think about your whole life as a project management system and build their own system using The Academic Society’s signature Project Management Framework.
Module 4: Scheduling
The students will learn to schedule their projects and tasks in a planning tool of their choice. This module includes tutorials for scheduling in a paper or digital planner as well as online organizational tools Trello, Asana, and ClickUp.
Module 5: Implementation
Finally, the students will learn practical time management tools to implement the system that they create for themselves.
EDITABLE WORKBOOK WITH ACTIONABLE TASKS
Your students will also get access to a workbook with actionable tasks for each lesson. Your students will be able to edit the workbook on Google Docs or print a physical copy to write on.
Live Planning Sessions with Grad Students
The Academic Society regularly hosts live planning sessions with grad student where we walk through the entire framework together. The sessions are recorded and available on the program platform.
Price: $37/student
*Discounts are available if purchasing for more than 10 students.
Toyin Alli is the founder of The Academic Society LLC. She received her PhD in Mathematics from the University of Alabama and is now a full time Lecturer at the University of Georgia. Toyin started The Academic Society LLC to help graduate students succeed in grad school through time management, productivity, and self-care. She reaches thousands of grad students through her digital programs, online social platforms, YouTube channel, and website.