Build a plan that won’t fall apart the second a student cries in your office
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“This semester will be different,” you whisper as you colour-code your calendar.
It’s September, and right now you’re full of optimism and good intentions.
And yet… here’s how it usually goes:
Two weeks in and your teaching’s already bleeding into your evenings.
You’ve got 247 unread emails, one student crisis, a broken Moodle page, a colleague who responds “maybe” to every single Doodle poll, and your research?
LOL, what?
You think the problem is the teaching, the admin, the emails. And I’m not here to tell you academia’s overwork culture isn’t real.
But the real problem is that you don’t have a system to protect your time before people start making claims on it.
As academics, we enjoy one of the most autonomous jobs you can get.
But the academic calendar doesn’t hand you free time. So unless you take control first someone else will.
That’s exactly what we’re doing in 5 Steps to Planning Your Autumn (for Women in Academia).
This is not just another time management webinar dreamt up by a tech bro with a PA and no kids, whose biggest time commitment is his cold plunge.
This is written and lived by me, an academic and coach with near-on a decade’s experience working with women in academia in research and writing spaces.
In this two hour masterclass, we will:
Set a research goal that fits your calendar (and a life one too)
Map out every step (no magical thinking)
Block your calendar before meetings claim it
Learn to say no like an adult human (not a guilt sponge)
Build a plan that won’t fall apart the second a student cries in your office.
You’ll walk away with a plan that’s stuck to your wall.
You’ll look at it every day.
And when the semester hits, as it will, you’ll already know exactly what to do and when.
Your university’s not going to fix the burnout culture.
But you can start putting boundaries in to protect against it.
Show up live. Do the work. Start actually enjoying your job again.
