Dissertation coaching is a service designed to help you successfully structure the dissertation or thesis process, create realistic work plans, increase accountability and effectively help you overcome the common barriers that doctoral students experience on the path to earning a doctoral degree. These common barriers include negative thinking, anxiety, stress, procrastination, writer’s block, perfectionism, lack of faculty support, dissertation committee issues, managing multiple roles and responsibilities while in graduate school, and difficulty managing time effectively.
We can offer you technical assistance which will help complete your doctoral research. We can also help you develop a sound writing program, support you to competently execute the writing plan , and successfully complete and defend the final dissertation. MyABD Network dissertation coaches are experts in the areas of dissertation topic development, dissertation writing, research design, methodology, developmental editing, statistical and qualitative analysis.
Title: Learn To Execute And Progress (LEAP®)
Description: This workshop is designed to help students:
- Avoid becoming distracted, tardy, impulsive
- Improve concentration and focusing
- Prevent short term momentum slippage
- Organize ideas and manage time
- Develop planning and execution strategies
Title: Re-Igniting Your Passion: Achieve Clarity and Focus To Successfully Complete Your Dissertation
Description: This workshop is designed to help students:
- Regain their momentum and confidence
- Shift from being distracted to being more focused
- Address challenges which are preventing completion of their doctoral dissertation
Title: Lost In Space®
Description: This workshop is designed to help students:
- Learn ways to get unstuck and back on track
- Identify the root causes of procrastination
- Overcome personal challenges to completing the doctoral dissertation and program
- Confront pitfalls in time management and self-discipline are preventing completion of the doctoral dissertation or program
- Determine through self-discovery what is needed to get motivated
Title: Stuck In Quicksand®
Description: This workshop is designed to help those students who tried all the ordinary strategies to get the dissertation done – this workshop focuses on some unconventional strategies. The workshop will focus on some different ways to get work done. The My ABD Network coaching staff will help students develop and maintain an unconventional schedule for completing the doctoral dissertation.
Title: Accountability 101
Description: This workshop is for those students who are experiencing difficulty in their doctoral program because of their passion for procrastination, addiction to writing and abhorrence to motivation. The workshop involves My ABD Network coaches who are seasoned scholars holding participants feet to the fire! The workshop is designed to provide:
- Tried and true strategies from Ph.D. coach with track record of chairing dissertations
- Tips and secrets for improving self-discipline
- Ideas for setting timelines and milestones for dissertation completion
Description: Did you know that half of all graduate students never get their degree? So, what is unique about the 50% who can put those letters after their name? It’s simple – they finished writing their thesis or dissertation.
Title: “I’ve Fallen Down And Can’t Get Up”!®
Description: This workshop is designed to help doctoral students who have started writing their dissertation but have hit the wall. Workshop topics include:
- Writer’s Block, Argument, Analysis and Revision.
- The doctoral process and life cycle
- Academic writing.
Title: Courageous Scholarship: Using Personal Character To Successfully Complete Your Doctorate®
Description: This workshop is designed to help students stay strong and complete their doctoral program. Embarking upon and completing a doctoral program is a monumental task that requires self-discipline, focus, and fortitude. It will be a struggle balancing life’s many responsibilities together with the negotiation and navigation of a rigorous post graduate program One way to transform the journey into a more efficient adventure is developing the skills and set of character strengths – - those of a courageous scholar.