Your PhD Coach - Jeff Gill

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Résumé :
This book is your own personal PhD coach. It's not just about surviving your PhD, it's about thriving in the experience. Taking a unique self-coaching approach, this book will enable you to understand how to navigate your way through the various challenges posed by PhD study with resilience, self-sufficiency, and the determination to succeed. Each chapter contains self-coaching challenges so that you can discover what works for you and generate fresh ideas to enable you to move forwards, banish self-doubt, bust procrastination, and realise your full potential to make the most of your PhD experience.Your PhD Coach will enable you to:

• Build resilience and self-leadership
• Challenge yourself to be focused and achieve aspiring goals
• Find the right balance and nurture stronger relationships
• Develop your confidence, creativity and motivationUsing a coaching philosophy that helps you realize your own solutions and develop your own strategies to move forward, the book is packed full of techniques, tips and tricks applicable to a wide range of circumstances both within the PhD process and beyond - an essential book for all those taking on the challenge of PhD research. Medd and Gill go deep into the under the skin of what it is like to do a PhD, pull out the reality of the operation and offer some sound advice. They provide effective techniques to bust the 'gremlins' - the voices in the head - that can haunt postgraduate researchers and diminish the research experience. I urge all research students (and supervisors) to read this very accessible book. It will help them reflect deeper into their research experience and help build confidence in themselves and (re)gain satisfaction in their work and studies.
  Dr Richard Hinchcliffe, Academic Development, Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Liverpool, UKCoaching empowered me to reclaim my PhD and this book will enable many more students to do the same. Will Medd and Jeff Gill have a deep understanding of the PhD process and students reading this book, at any stage in their PhD, will find themselves thinking 'Wow, that is exactly how I feel!' The book challenges the inevitability of the 'PhD steam-roller' and its comfortable and chatty tone creates a friendly guide for those struggling with the demands of a PhD and inspiration for those who want to get the most from the whole experience.
  Beth Brockett, PhD Student, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK...

  Biographie:
  Jeff Gill is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation and NLP Master Practitioner. He runs Better Balance Coaching - his own coaching practice. Will Medd is Lecturer at the University of Lancaster and runs his own coaching practice (an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation and CTI Certified Professional Co-active Coach). Together they run workshops for PhD students and have established yourphdcoach.com as an online space for continued conversations about getting the most from the PhD experience.

  Sommaire:
  Introduction

  Part 1: Setting firm foundations: say 'Yes!' to the perfect PhD day
  Chapter 1: Introduction to Part One and... How are you today?
  Chapter 2: Throwing rocks before your PhD: Learning to manage your inner critic
  Chapter 3: What's the point of this path? Finding value in your perfect PhD
  Chapter 4: Where is the pathway heading? Tapping into your bigger picture
  Chapter 5: Bringing it all together: Saying 'Yes!' to the perfect PhD day

  Part 2: Core themes in the PhD experience
  Chapter 6: Out of control? In pursuit of better balance
  Chapter 7: When self-doubt creeps in... How to find the superhero within
  Chapter 8: Overwhelmed or underwhelmed? Finding enjoyment through your goals
  Chapter 9: Stuck in a rut? Being creative
  Chapter 10: Distracted? Giving yourself permission to re-find your focus
  Chapter 11: On your own? Building better relationships
  Chapter 12: Too many knockbacks and brick walls? Building your PhD resilience
  Chapter 13: The leader in you? Finding the authenticity to write your own story
  Further Reading...