Focus

• Target Group: PhD candidates, researchers with PhD
• Language: English
• Time: 14.04.2026 (9:00-16:00) & 15.04.2026 (13:00-17:00)
• Registration fee for students and staff: €30

The most productive people do not work long hours; they work with intense concentration on their most important tasks. This workshop will teach you how to improve your focus and sharpen your concentration to be more productive and experience flow in your endeavours.

Content

Success in academia is not so much a question of talent as of focus and perseverance. As a scientist, you need concentration to read and write articles, conduct studies, analyse data, or make decisions that will significantly impact your career. But this mountain of work and the countless sources of distraction offered by electronic devices make it difficult to focus on a particular task or project.

This workshop will help you improve your focus and sharpen your concentration skills. To this end, we will identify what prevents you from working concentrated, your vision, and how to make it happen by working with an intense focus on the right tasks. You will learn simple methods to increase your concentration (e.g., batch work, the Pomodoro technique, mindfulness training) and experience flow.

Goals

• Learn what concentration and focus are and why they are essential to productive work
• Identify what prevents you from working concentrated
• Develop your vision and identify your priorities
• Create a plan of action
• Learn how to overcome procrastination and deal with distractions
• Learn how to increase your concentration skills

Please note that your registration is binding, and we are counting on your participation in the workshop.
Organising our course programme takes time, resources and careful planning by our team. If you are unable to attend, please inform us promptly by emailing rcc(at)uni-graz.at or cancelling your registration on the website. This will help us with our planning and give someone on the waiting list the opportunity to participate.

Register on our booking site: Focus