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YoDa Career Cafe – Procrastination in the workplace

As part of the ‘Career Café’ series, YoDA would like to invite you to a workshop about procrastination in the workplace.

2021.06.04 | Magnus Kræpping Andersen

Date Fri 18 Jun
Time 12:00 13:30
Location https://aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/62210995622

Guest speaker: Cathie Edwards, a professional life coach from New Zealand, who earned this degree via CoachU which is the largest and leading global provider of coach training programs.

Procrastination results in lower academic performance and poorer mental and physical health. Research has demonstrated that interventions to reduce procrastination are worthwhile as they can result in a long-term reduction in procrastination behaviors. This workshop will help you understand why you procrastinate and introduce you to a choice of practical evidence-based strategies to help you reduce procrastination and get more done. Knowing why you procrastinate will help you choose appropriate anti- procrastination strategies to use.

Time and place: Friday the 18th of June at 12 pm online via zoom (https://aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/62210995622)

YoDa organizing team and Cathie Edwards hope to see many of you!

Want to know more before the workshop? Then keep reading and think about the questions provided by Cathie Edwards. Pleas note this is not mandatory to do before the workshop, but just an offer from Cathie to make the workshop even more interesting!

Welcome to the Procrastination Workshop. My name is Cathie Edwards and I am the facilitator of the workshop on Procrastination on the 18th of June at 12 PM CET.

In order to get the most benefit from the workshop I’d like you to take a few minutes to think about your patterns of procrastination and what procrastination has cost you.
You can just think about these questions or you can write down your answers.  If you write them down, I would love it if you e-mailed your answers to me at info@temptationtraining.com 

I am looking forward to meeting you at the workshop. 

1. Write down (or just think about) tasks that you tend to procrastinate on. 

2. Now consider each of these tasks one at a time. 
What feelings / thoughts immediately come to mind? You don’t need to spend much time on this – just note your first reaction (examples ‘  I don’t know where to start’  ,  ‘ boring’ ’)

3. Contemplate what you have just written. Do the tasks you procrastinate on have something in common?  Do your reactions have something in common?   Does this give you a clue about why you procrastinate?

4. In what situations are you more likely to procrastinate?  For example, do you tend to procrastinate more when you’re working at home compared to when you’re working in the library? Do you struggle to finish tasks after you’ve started them or do you struggle to get started in the first place?

5. What has procrastination cost you?  How has your procrastination has affected you in terms of things such as your happiness, stress, academic performance, finances, relationships?

Below is a list of common rationalizations our minds commonly give us to make us feel better about not doing what we intended to do.  Which ones tend to pop up in your mind?

* I’ll feel more like doing it tomorrow
* It’s not important
* It’s not really my responsibility
* I’m not really putting it off (I need more information, I need to do clean my desk before I can do it , I don’t have time  right now– I  need a large block of uninterrupted  time to do it) 
* I’m too tired / stressed to work now. 
* I work better under pressure
*I’ve worked so hard this morning I deserve a break. 
What other excuses and self-deceptions does your mind commonly give you?     

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