Week of January 15

It's so nice to have you all aboard and to hear about your progress. Today is the day to plan your week. Here is the Weekly Challenge from FacultyDiversity.org. Happy writing!

The Weekly Challenge

 This week, I challenge each of you to:

• Create a Strategic Plan for your quarter, term, or semester.
• Set aside 30 minutes at the beginning of this week to plan how you will spend your time.
• Estimate what percentage of your work time this week would align with your institution’s evaluation criteria.
• Gently ask yourself if the way you are currently spending your work time is likely to result in your meeting the standards for promotion at your institution.
• Write out your to-do items for the week, being sure to categorize your to-do list by Research, Service, and Teaching.
• Map that list onto specific blocks of time in your calendar and proactively decide what to do with the items that don't fit.
• Try working just one week with your time (literally) aligned with your priorities.
• If you still need more convincing about aligning time and priorities, read The New Faculty Member by Rebecca Brendt and Richard Felder (2-minute read).
• To learn more about aligning your time and your priorities, join us for our next core curriculum webinar, Align Your Time With Your Priorities.