subject: Time Management Methods for a Scientific Researcher [print this page] If you try to become a researcher at least for a week, you will explore the whole scope of activities and a schedule of such kind of work. You will find yourself in a wide range of responsibilities; will have more freedom and flexibility in timetable. A possible reason to lose the pace of the research project development is to think that you possess a lot of time for the research work delivering and there will be always time to catch up. The reality is that researchers have to be good in time management. Any scientific faculty member has to combine teaching and class preparation, participation in academic committees, working in scientific projects. Moreover, in their schedule they have to include practical laboratory experiments to test possible outcomes of the research or to be a mentor. What is more, in case of the external financing of his/her project, a funding agency sets a deadline. So a researcher has to manage all his/her time efficiently. The freedom can lead to a failure in the project performance. Consequently, the main task for a researcher is to plan his /her schedule and gain a time-management technique. There are five main steps of the time-management process that will help to build a realistic timetable: 1. Goals setting 2. Priorities identification 3. Plan building 4. Time-table writing 5. Evaluation It is important not to devote all capacities just to plan writing. The most important step is to build a time-schedule. Mind that each activity takes lots of time We are all once were in a trap of the procrastination. Postponing important things, we are spending time with friends, watching TV, finding excuses to delay our work for more time. Time management is the way to develop self-discipline and simply to build a schedule for yourself.
Time Management Methods for a Scientific Researcher
