NAVIGATE

If you’re trying to hold your entire publication pipeline in your head, it’s time to #levelup. In this system you’ll map out your publication pipeline and diagnose the clogs that are keeping you from getting your pubs out the door.

Understand all the steps in your pipeline process so that you can control them to your career advantage.

Create a curated pipeline and learn the power of carefully selecting what makes it into the pipeline–and what makes it out.

Feeling defeated by your never-checked-off to-do list? You might be making a common mistake: you’re listing projects on the list, not tasks.

Learn how to break your projects into tasks so that you propel your projects forward–instead of drowning in them.

Discover the secret to estimating time-to-task so that you can predict how long your projects will take to succeed.

Academic publishing is a long game, and even though it varies by field, most writing projects take months–or years–from idea to publication. That can make it difficult to really envision how your publications will work for you this year.

Create a year-long writing plan that works with all the other things you’re doing, not in spite of them.

Learn how to stick to a plan–and how to re-adjust when things go wrong.

Most academics feel pulled in a thousand directions because, well, they are. But the secret to a successful career–and much more writing and publishing–lies in how narrowly focused and uniquely branded you can make yourself. You’ll use our mission method to stop being blown in the wind by every “interesting” idea you have and discover the unique academic contribution your work makes.

Dig deep to find the real motivation behind why you want to write and publish more.

Come away with your academic mission statement clearly written and hanging on your wall. 🙂

The glorification of overwork is so real in academia that you think you must be stretched to your limits 24/7 or you’re doing it wrong. Because you have no system for sorting the projects you take on–or getting rid of projects that you shouldn’t have said “yes” to in the first place–it’s easy to get overwhelmed by serious activities creep.

Use our proven set of rubrics to assess everything you’re doing right now and cull the off-mission activities.

Align the activities that you can’t eliminate (Spoiler alert: this is the key to feeling less stressed).

You’ve read a dozen time management books by now, but there’s always some key thing that’s impossible to implement. That’s because you’ve never learned academic time management from an academic mom of three.

Snag done-for-you workflows and templates that you can tweak and implement immediately.

Clearly set boundaries around your time.

Are you avoiding writing because it feels like a slog? Do you feel like you can get writing done for the first few weeks of the semester and then your writing time gets eaten up when the semester hits the fan? Relegating all your writing to the summer and then collapsing? Yep, you need a system.

Learn our customized three-pronged system to go from slogging to soaring whenever you sit down to write.

Completely change the way you’ve been relating to your writing so that your writing practice feels good, has momentum, and stays consistent.

If you keep setting goals you can’t hit, you’re pulling the brakes on your own writing practice. Get out of your own way–and use goal-setting to propel your work forward by understanding the power of “write” goal setting.

Discover The Write Goals Method to determine which type of writing goals will motivate you.

Create a customized system for setting goals that you can hit.

If you’ve ever lamented “there’s not enough time in the day!” you’ve never done the Ideal Week exercise. This powerful method will give you clarity around all you do and help you set spaciousness into motion.

Make sure all of your most important activities (like writing!) have time and space on your calendar.

Understand the gap between Ideal Week and Real Week so that you can start to bridge it.

Prepare yourself to imperfectly submit the “low hanging fruit” project you’ve been working on during the program, with the support of your coaches and peers.

You did it! You submitted your article and in the process profoundly changed the role of writing and publishing in your career.

The Navigate program is for professors who meet at least one of the bulleted descriptions at the top of this document (tons of data, lots of drafts, need to clear their pipeline for a career milestone). You can be at any career stage (early, mid, or late) as long as you have previously published and one of those is true for you.  

 

P.S. One thing we’ve learned over the years is that you are not defined by your career stage. At Scholar’s Voice™, you’ll see that our programs shift from a focus on institutional definitions of career stage to programs that serve your particular needs regardless of career stage.