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See My Work in Action
Choosing a trainer or coach is partly about credentials and partly about chemistry – whether their style and approach will land with your people. This page exists to help you make that call.
Here you’ll find free resources you can use straight away alongside short clips from my online masterclasses. Whether you’re a manager exploring whether my work is a good fit for your programme, or a researcher looking for practical tools to help you right now — start here.
How to Network Effectively
This video, based on my “Developing Professional Networks” workshop, explores how networking can help researchers and professionals create opportunities, build collaborations and increase their visibility. Participants are encouraged to develop a more intentional approach to building relationships.
The full session combines strategic network analysis with practical strategies and communication skills. Participants learn to discuss their work in ways that are clear and engaging, approach networking conversations with greater confidence and develop professional relationships that support long-term career goals.
The NotebookLM was trained on workshop resources created by Margaret Collins
Supervisor Resource:
When Research Gets Hard
PhD supervisors are seeing a new pattern: strong students are withdrawing when research gets hard, when experiments fail or feedback lands badly. In this short guide, I explore what is really happening beneath the surface and offer constructive and supportive approaches to encourage re-engagement with difficult challenges.
The NotebookLM was trained on workshop resources created by Dr Margaret Collins
Getting Stuff Done
This excerpt from my “Time Management: the secrets to getting stuff done” workshop looks specifically at those tasks that we really would rather leave – the Brian Tracy “Eat that Frog” approach…
The full session considers many practical tools alongside insights and mindset shifts to approach getting the right stuff done. We can certainly learn to be more efficient in our use of time – planning, time-blocking, dealing with interruptions – but the greatest rewards often come when we prioritise what most needs our focus and apply that effectively.
Managing Your Research Project
This video, based on my “Managing Your Research Project” workshop, is aimed at early career researchers managing complex research projects, often for the first time.
Researchers are managing responsibility, often without authority. They are accountable for delivering results they cannot fully control using people they cannot direct. They need tools to keep them and the project on track. They need clear priorities.
The Gantt chart becomes a tool for having honest conversations about what is actually achievable. Risk management is how you stop being blindsided and build a Plan B. Managing the scope of your project is how you say no to extra work without damaging relationships and how you make conscious choices when good results create unexpected opportunity.
The NotebookLM was trained on workshop resources created by Margaret Collins