customized workshops
My interactive workshops help participants improve their productivity and time management practices while limiting overwhelm and overwork. Workshop participants will leave our session with tangible tools they can apply to their personal and professional goals and daily practices.
What attendees have to say
“I have attended other events in the past […] on productivity and time management, but I never got anything useful. I always felt like it was the same old methods and tricks. Until now! In the matter of an hour Dr. Henry introduced us to various new methods and her enthusiasm was contagious!“
“The interactive nature of the workshop was great for me. I got tools I can use.“
“The whole workshop was outstanding. [Kate] did a wonderful job setting up the barriers and enablers of productive practices by discussing and prompting reflection on personal resources and then moving into ‘behind-the-scenes-labor’ as a vehicle for individualizing the planning process. Very applicable and useful.“
Sample Workshop titles & Descriptions
In the Workplace
Set Yourself Up for Success
We will learn why, when, and how to apply tools to make productivity practices more efficient, with a focus on using prioritization and time blocking to manage distractions and set boundaries. “Set Yourself Up for Success” and “Clarify Your Goals and Manage Your Workflow” can be offered as a two-part series.
Clarify Your Goals and Manage Your Workflow
During the workshop, we’ll learn how to develop goal setting practices to manage workflows on our own and within teams. Workshop attendees will learn practical methods for prioritizing, communicating with colleagues and co-workers, and documenting their work to increase efficiency and contribute to team and company productivity norms. “Set Yourself Up for Success” and “Clarify Your Goals and Manage Your Workflow” can be offered as a two-part series.
Writing and Research
Top Five Tools that Helped Me Finish My Dissertation
Dr. Kate Henry has an MFA, an MA, and a PhD. In this workshop, she breaks down five tools and approaches that helped her to find motivation, keep up momentum, and complete her dissertation.
Increase Efficiency and Effectiveness During Writing Sessions
Having difficulty focusing during writing sessions? In this workshop, we’ll cover common obstacles that derail writing, reading, and research. Attendees will learn productivity tools to help determine appropriate goals, set boundaries around distractions, and make tangible progress in every writing session. We’ll end our time with the opportunity to personalize an approach to a future writing session by applying the tools we cover.
Structure as a Path to Sustainability (with Dr. Katy Peplin)
Does the blinking cursor on a blank Word doc make your stomach sink? Join Dr. Kate Henry and Dr. Katy Peplin of Thrive PhD for a one-stop shop for overcoming overwhelm and lighting the way towards completing your next self-directed writing project.
After this 4-hour session, you will leave with a personalized productivity plan, a repeatable project template, and deeper clarity on how to structure your days with more compassion and flexibility so you can make progress on your terms.
Whether you’re at the very beginning or want to hit refresh without starting from scratch, this workshop is for you! Learn more here.
Personalized Productivity
How to Personalize Your Productivity Practice
Through defining success in your own terms, you’ll reflect on the ways your productivity utilizes finite personal resources and reconceptualize what it means to “be productive” by identifying your behind-the-scenes labors. Attendees will leave this workshop with a personal productivity plan for making their goals actionable.
Accomplish Your Goals with Slow Productivity
Learn how to approach your goals with intention instead of overwhelm. We’ll cover Slow Productivity practices like learning when to shift from perfect to good, how to differentiate between goals and stretch goals, how to build in blank space and breaks into your days, how to utilize reflection to shift your approach when you hit an obstacle, and more.
Identify and Overcome Your Productivity Pitfalls
Progress is never linear and the best-laid writing plans often fall apart – but why? This workshop will help you identify the common productivity pitfalls (distraction, boundaries, overcommitting, multitasking, etc.) that might be your barrier to progress. Attendees will learn approaches for avoiding these pitfalls in the future and for mitigating them when they occur.
Workshop pricing available upon request.
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