Get Organized for Academic Success
Workshops for students
How can high school, college or graduate students get the edge they need to improve their academic performance? They can learn practical skills and strategies to manage their time and energy most effectively and achieve their academic goals.
Many professionals get this productivity training at work, and businesses reap the benefit. Students, on the other hand, can struggle for years, without much success, to learn these skills on their own.
Brenna Consulting offers workshops designed to help students learn the organizational skills they need to become more productive and achieve academic success. Workshops are customized to match the interests and circumstances of each audience.
Workshops
- Time Management: Strategies for juggling school and life
- What are your goals? Why they're important and how to reach them
- Team Projects: Effective organization and communication
Time Management: Strategies for juggling school and life
Do you scramble at the last minute because you don't prioritize and plan your activities … run out of study time without completing assignments …struggle to fit in fun activities and still perform well in school?
You can take control of your time and increase your academic productivity through proven and practical time management techniques.
Topics include:
- Six steps to control your time
- Techniques to integrate school and personal goals
- What to organize, what to let go
- Tips for effective study habits
Exercises include:
- Diagnosing your time management strengths and weaknesses
- Identifying what is and isn't a priority
- Practicing planning a typical day
Who should take this course:
High school, college, and graduate students
Participants in this 2-to-3 hour workshop receive materials on tips and tools covered in this session.
What are your goals? Why they're important and how to reach them
Successful people have one thing in common: They know how to identify achievable goals that will take them where they want to go. This seminar will teach you to identify and articulate academic and personal goals, and create a plan to achieve them.
Topics include:
- Components of effective goal-setting
- Creating a Life Plan with short- and long-term goals
- Translating goals into to-do lists
Exercises include:
- Diagnosing habits and thoughts that impede goal attainment
- Writing your SMART goals
- Developing an action plan tied to your goals
Who should take this course:
High school, college, and graduate students
This is a 2-3 hour workshop. Participants receive takeaways with tips and tools covered during the workshop.
Team Projects: Effective organization and communication
Academic programs across the country have built their curriculum around team projects. Mastering Project Management skills used by professionals can make you and your team more organized, efficient, and effective. The result? Spend valuable time on achieving your academic and team goals.
Topics include:
- Five characteristics of successful teams
- Strategies for effective planning and communication
- Tips to get the most out of team meetings
- Anticipate problems and adapt to change
Exercises include:
- Identifying best practices of successful teams
- Planning project milestones and tasks
- Diagnosing your time management challenges
Who should take this course:
College and graduate students who participate in team projects that extend over one or more semesters.
This 2-hour workshop gives participants the opportunity practice Project Management tools.
Testimonials
Amy Brenna has conducted efficiency workshops for our graduate students for the last three years, because her workshops help them juggle all the demands in their lives. Many of our students have a full-time job, go to graduate school at night, and have families too. They are stretched thin, and the skills they learn in Brenna Workshops give them the support they need to do well in all three arenas while keeping the stress level down. Brenna Workshops has become an essential component in the skills training we provide for our students.
-Brian Roach, New York University Wagner School of Public Service
I am a 2nd year part-time student at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. I am also the recipient of a Rudin Fellowship. I began my program last year and I cannot tell you what a challenge and shock it was to suddenly have to balance work, family and school. Due to my work commitments I found myself not able to pull the all nighters I did as an undergraduate, and struggled to achieve the high grades that had come so naturally the first time around.
Now a Wagner year wiser and calmer, I signed up and attended the seminar offered by NYU called Strategies for Juggling School, Work, and Personal Time conducted by Amy Brenna. I am very thankful that this seminar was made available to me and my fellow students. It was quite reaffirming to know that there are methods to the madness of working and studying and it has given me even more confidence to tackle another year. Ms. Brenna was excellent and her professional execution and suggestions will extend not only to school, but also to my work. It validated that a science does exists in choosing to go back to school while working and staying sane! Above all, it reminded me that life does not have to go on hiatus in the process (well those bad TV shows have to shelved, but I can live with that).
-Andrea Pacheco, Foreign Fulbright Programs