Developing professional skills is an essential component of a graduate student's career. Whether it's speaking at a conference, learning how to network with other academics, or preparing your first vitae, we realize there's some essential skills that may not be taught in your discipline. We've put together our Professional Development Workshop Series to help you out.

The PREP Model

We've based our workshop selections around the PREP model, coined by Michigan State University. The acronym embodies four areas that we believe are essential for your success.

• Planning
  Graduate school isn't easy. Proper planning however can dramatically reduce stress and anxiety and get you on the road to achieve your academic goals.
  
• Resilience
  Being resilient is an important trait for managing both your personal and professional lives.
• Engagement
  This is a must to be involved in the academic world around you, to take advantage of opportunities and attain your goals.
• Professionalism
  This is a core competency of any graduate student.

Workshop Schedule

Below is a list of a few of our upcoming workshops. We update the list frequently, so check back to see when the next workshop will be. Check out the full list and workshop details at http://tsgs.unt.edu/workshops. 

• Finding Grants and Fellowships to Support your Scholarship: Feb. 22 4:00-5:00 PM
• IMPROVing Communication Through Improvisational Theatre (Part 1): Feb. 28  3:00-5:00 PM
• Now I’m in Grad School, What’s Next? : Strategic Career Planning for Graduate Students, Steps I Can Take Now: March 1  3:00-4:30 PM
• Using Technology to Improve Your Presentation Skills (Part B): Mar. 5  6:30-8:30 PM
• Life in Academia: Preparing to secure tenure and beyond: March 6  3:30-5:30 PM
• DISCOVERY PARK: Taming the Word Beast: How to Use MS Word Efficiently and Effectively: Mar. 5  3:00-5:00 PM
• Taming the Word Beast: How to Use MS Word Efficiently and Effectively: Mar. 7  3:00-5:00 PM
• Navigating the Phd: Managing Academic Relationships: Mar. 19  5:30-7:00 PM
• IMPROVing Communication Through Improvisational Theatre (Part 2): Mar. 21  3:00-5:00 PM
• How to Give an Award Winning Talk: Mar. 22  4:00-5:30 PM
• Establishing the Research Foundation to Envision, Structure, and Compose a Contributive, Authoritative, and Successful Fellowship Proposal: Mar. 25  2:00-3:30 PM
• Entrepreneurship: How it can make a difference in your career: Apr. 11  4:00-5:30 PM
• Navigating the PhD: Managing Time: Apr. 2  3:00-5:00 PM
• Life in Academia: Beyond tenure-mentoring sucessful scholars: Apr. 4  3:00-5:00 PM
• Planning, Managing, and Funding the Research Project: Apr. 3 4:00-6:30 PM
• IMPROVing Communication Using Improvisational Theatre (Part 3): Apr. 8  3:00-5:00 PM
• Getting Ideas for an Academic Study: Conceptual and Empirical: April 15 3:00-5:00 PM
• Publishing in Business and the Humanities: April 22 3:00-5:00 PM
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program Workshop: Apr. 25 3:30-6:30 PM

Library Workshops
To register for current workshops, please go to this link: https://www.library.unt.edu/events/workshops

Workshops:

If you have any suggestions or feedback for workshop ideas, feel free to get in touch with us.