This practical interactive workshop, based on the evidence-based Peak Performing Professor model, will explore the challenge of the tripartite professor job description (teaching, research, and service) and how to balance those responsibilities with a great personal life
Susan Robison – The Peak Performing Professor: A Practical Guide to Productivity and Happiness
Thursday, March 10, 4-6 p.m., with optional extension until 6:30 p.m.
Belk Pavilion 208
A faculty job can be a very satisfying life-long career IF it is handled well. Long-term work-life balance requires a combination of two things: a vision of what is needed for professional and personal success and the work habits used by successful academics to achieve long-term work and life satisfaction. This practical interactive workshop, based on the evidence-based Peak Performing Professor model, will explore the challenge of the tripartite professor job description (teaching, research, and service) and how to balance those responsibilities with a great personal life. Hint: Doing everything well all of the time is not the answer.
You will learn how to PACE yourself with these practices:
- POWER and motivate yourself with a vision of meaning and purpose in your career and life.
- ALIGN time and tasks with your Power to produce high impact results with high job satisfaction.
- CONNECT with those at home and at work for mutual support.
- ENERGIZE yourself through wellness and well-being practices for better work-life balance, a long productive career, and a long healthy and satisfying life.
The benefits of applying the PACE practices will allow you to:
- Create a life management system that aligns your strengths, time, and energy with your personal priorities and your diverse faculty responsibilities.
- Discern what activities and opportunities will move your vision forward so that you can say strong “yes’s” and graceful “no’s” to the competing priorities of the college professor.
- Take charge of those overwhelming to-do lists by envisioning and managing projects, goals, and daily to-do lists that are realistic and achievable.
- (Optional) Build social capital, relationships with colleagues that pay off in mutual productivity and satisfaction.
- (Optional) Minimize time management distracters such as email, grading, and interruptions.
- (Optional) Create and maintain energy so that you can work productively without burnout.
To sign up, please use the registration form.