Coaching in Academia
An academic coach is your partner.
A thinking partner, an emotional sounding board. A coach helps you achieve your goals, and helps bring you the power, confidence and clarity you need to keep moving forward.
I can be your partner and help propel you on your journey in the following areas:
Academic Career Coaching
Enhanced Writing Productivity Coaching
Joyful Academic Writing Coaching
Coaching Areas
Academic Career Coaching
Academic life is replete with stress, multiple demands on our time, and plenty of constant change: a new job, new colleagues, new heads of department, new admin systems etc. These changes are bound to trigger anxieties and stresses and other underlying emotional issues.
Being able to safely explore and confront these emotions, which are often held close and deep, is the space that coaching with mehtatext provides.
Further, because you and your colleagues are all experts in your field, you have no one to turn to for advice and support, no one who can be your sounding board. Coaching with mehtatext gives you the thinking partner you need.
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If you are in this or a similar situation, a coach could really help get you unstuck and keep you moving forward:
You are in your first job after your PhD / in a new job, and it feels overwhelming
You are post-tenure, and feeling directionless
You have a new boss you don’t see eye to eye with, and it’s dragging you down
You’re thinking of quitting academia, and need to sound out your thoughts and decisions
You want to cultivate a sense of confidence and power
You just feel lost and overwhelmed by everything coming your way
If you are plagued by these or other difficult emotional situations, then coaching is the right approach to get you unstuck and keep you moving forward.
Enhanced Writing Productivity Coaching
How do you position yourself in relation to your writing? Do you stand at a distance? Does it provoke anxiety? Or is it so crucial that any feedback is a personal attack? Are you blocked? Stuck? Procrastinating?
All these feelings that are stopping you from writing, and even enjoying your writing, and can be overcome to make you a more productive writer.
My intense familiarity with academic writing, with the academic writing and publishing ecosystem, and with academic life in general, allows me to provide support in ways that other coaches cannot.
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If you are in this or a similar situation, a coach could really help get you unstuck and keep you moving forward:
You just got off a high-level, high-pressure management position in the university, and are out of practice with writing, and you are feeling apprehensive about it
You open your computer and spend most of your time on social media or fiddling with your course slides
You can only write to a deadline
You struggle to concentrate on your writing and are highly distracted
You do everything BUT write: data analysis, formatting references, micro-editing already written material, cleaning your office space
You consistently feel like you can’t write because you haven’t read enough
You feel overwhelmed by how much there is to write, and paralysed by that gigantic task.
If you are tired of this pattern and are ready to make a change, book an appointment with me to discuss your needs further.
Joyful Academic Writing Coaching
This coaching helps you to write and publish more.
Chances are that you have never really learnt/been taught how to be an effective, self starting, knowledge entrepreneur.
So although academics are entrepreneurs, they lack the tools of the entrepreneur: organisation tools, productivity tools, planning and project management tools, time tracking tools etc.
Together, we examine your approach to writing and publishing to unlock your path to progress.
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If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by the amount of work you have and don’t know where to start
If you’ve ever wondered how to plan your week and what you need to do in order to push a paper out for publication
If you’ve ever struggled to manage the multiple and simultaneous projects you have
If you’ve wanted to write and publish more but are unable to
If you have difficulty saying “no” and find yourself overcommitting, stressed, and like you are sinking…
Then what you need are solid frameworks, processes and tools to set you up for successful solo work.
Because let’s face it, doing it alone all the time is hard, and with support from a coach, can begin to feel a lot more manageable, and even achievable, to say nothing of joyful and easy!
If you are ready to turn it around, and want to make a change, get in touch.
Delphine Godefroit-Winkel, Toulouse Business School
“Tanvi is a great coach. She carefully listens to my specific needs, and tailors an efficient coaching agenda to advance my work. Above all, she is very supportive, with an intimate knowledge of the emotional ups and downs that affect researchers.”
Book a call. Check if we’re a good fit.
On this call, I will answer any questions you may have about the coaching process. You will be able to decide whether I am a good fit for you and your needs. No obligations. Just a 20 minute chat.
