PhD Coaching Blog — Good Enough

Happy 2024! Registration has now closed on my small group coaching sessions to produce a "Good Enough" thesis, that will give students a good start in this New Year: https://www.phdcoaching.ca/pages/upcoming-thesis-workshop However, I know that many doctoral candidates don't want to join a group and prefer individual coaching. I completely understand, and there are many benefits to one-on-one sessions. The main advantage is that the entire focus is on your own thesis.  Whether you need help with your writing, or want to discuss what your supervisor said to you in margin comments, the discussion is just about your own work. It's...

      Expecting to be dawdling over your thesis in 2024?   To help you avoid that, I invite to join me for a four-week series of tutorials on how to write a “Good Enough” thesis, starting January 25th. Why?  Well, did you know that the average thesis takes eight years to complete? I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks that PhD programs are excessively long and that doctoral students take too much time. In spite of the best of intentions, too many find themselves failing to reach the end of their studies, and there are probably several...

.I just heard from one of my most hard-working and successful PhD students that she got a “B” on her last course paper.  Wonderful! We were both very happy about that, and I want to explain why. First, she's a part-time student, and working full time at a job that requires a lot of travel, and she also has a family.  She had recently been promoted, and was also taking some skill-development courses. But then she applied for a C-Suite job for fun in another city—and got it! That meant she had to move. In the middle of this she...