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Making Decisions: planning & scheduling

Posted on August 24, 2021 by Jo VanEvery

This post was originally written in February 2021 as a follow up to Planning Your Winter Semester and was shared in the Academic Writing Studio. It has been edited and divided into a series of shorter posts for ease of reading. The general principles—habits, routines, and default responses—are explained in the first post in the […]

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Being available, with limits

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Jo VanEvery 1 Comment

There are all kinds of reasons why you need to be available to students outside the classroom. You have various means of enabling those students to ask questions outside of class time: Fixed hours when you are available in your office for this purpose An e-mail address where they can contact you A space in […]

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Managing your workload by creating containers

Posted on August 13, 2015 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

One way to get some control over how much time and energy you give to certain kinds of legitimate requests is to create a container for that kind of work.

Just as it is easier to store flour if you pour it into something with firm sides and a lid (so it doesn’t just flow all over the counter), some tasks can benefit from being contained in particular time periods or particular spaces.

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Do you over-explain?

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Do you overexplain? When you say “no” to a request, do you offer an explanation? Do you have your full schedule posted on your office door? Is your electronic Calendar publicly visible with all the details of your meetings? Do you also find it hard to say no? Do […]

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