The Grad Student Coach

Procrastination - postponing work you need to do and doing something more fun or less daunting instead. This is a problem afflicting many. In this "how-to-improve-your-work-cycle" episode, I share a proven technique that not only addresses this, but can also strengthen other aspects of your working relationship with your advisor.

Any communication that is not face-to-face suffers some degree of Degraded Presence - the blocking of the feeling signals that we rely on for sense-making. This magnifies the likelihood and severity of headwind caused by the Feelings Frame, Fantasy Fit process outlined in Part 2..

This second of a three part series focuses on two maneuvers that our human brains are wired to perform that can lead us into a distorted sense of reality, pulling us off-page from one another.

We begin a three part deep dive into how and why two collaborators can get off-page from each other and wind up occupying different realities.

Here we explore the potent productivity tonic known as "expectation management", and introduce a tool called the Expectation Dashboard. The dashboard is a tool you can leverage to help you and your advisor stay on the same page, reduce the anxiety brought about by unknowns, and generally reduce the grinding of the gears in that collaboration journey.

In this episode, we introduce a way of thinking about the relationship between the student and advisor that can provide a framework for discussions about how the student can get the most from their advisor, given time constraints.

This episode teaches a powerful technique for the grad student to improve their collaborative footing with their advisor, yet applies to any collaboration in general.

This episode gives an overview of what the podcast is about and what listeners can expect to take away from it.