Gina Hiatt

About Gina Hiatt

Gina J Hiatt, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, tenure and dissertation coach who helps faculty and graduate students realize their dreams. With my encouragement, support and expertise, grad students, professors and writers are all able to complete research and writing projects and publish, while maintaining high teaching standards and other commitments. My web site, http://AcademicLadder.com, is full of self-assessments, articles, resources, polls and newsletter archives. Check out my site to get help with time management, procrastination, writing, creative thinking, career decisions, choosing research topics, teaching and more. Sign up for my newsletter at http://AcademicLadder.com and get the free and unique “Academic Writer’s Block Wizard.”

The 3 P’s: Perfectionism, Procrastination, and Paralysis

Do you set your standards high, but always feel like you've failed? Learn about the 3 "P's" and end the vicious cycle that keeps you stuck and ineffective.The Vicious CyclePerfectionism, procrastination, and paralysis – one...
Date Posted: December 18, 2005

Get It Out Of Your Head And Into a Mind Map

Do you ever feel like you have some great ideas, but when you sit down to write them, they're not so great? Or even worse, you can't really get a sense of what the ideas were?
Date Posted: December 13, 2005

Junior Faculty Balancing Act: Teaching, Part I

My website poll of 96 junior faculty members has an unequivocal winner. The poll asks, "What is the hardest part about being a junior faculty member?" Over a third of the respondents chose "Teaching takes up so much time" as...
Date Posted: December 13, 2005