Management Skills

Management Skills

THIS IS THE 2009/10 PROGRAMME. THE 2010/11 PROGRAMME WILL BE ISSUED SHORTLY.
You can register your interest in similar sessions to those below by contacting e.floisand@worc.ac.uk

APPRAISER SKILLS - Tricia Bodenham, Personnel Department
 Monday 19 October, 9.00 - 12.00, Venue BB178; Tuesday 16 February, 1.00 - 4.00, Venue CC008; Monday 19 April, 1.00 - 4.00, Venue EE2009; Wednesday 16 June, 9.00 - 12.00, Venue EEG131

A practical session which is compulsory for staff with responsibilities for appraising other members of staff. The session's aims are to develop an understanding of the nature of appraisal, its objectives and links with other university processes. We will also explore the skills and techniques that help to make the process effective, and become familiar with the University's appraisal scheme and procedures and prepare for an appraisal meeting.

MANAGING CHANGE AND TRANSITION
Wednesday 18 November 9.30 - 4.30, Venue Portacabin 2

This programme is aimed at managers and team leaders who want to develop strategies and skills in leading change and making it a more welcome concept for their staff. Through tutor inputs, group discussions and the use of case studies you will identify different types of change, consider how to help staff through the transition process whilst living with the inherent issues that change creates and consider the importance of working within existing team cultures when seeking to effect change.

MENTORING SKILLS
Tuesday 29 September, 1.00 - 4.00; Wednesday 9 December, 1.00 - 4.00, Venue PL G011; Wednesday 13 January, 9.00 - 12.00, Venue BB202; Monday 22nd March, 9.00 - 12.00, Venue BB202; Tuesday 11 May, 9.00 - 12.00, Venue EE G131 

The university recommends that all staff, academic, support, full and part-time, be assigned a mentor when they start employment with UW to sit alongside our probation processes. This half-day session is aimed at both managers of mentors and staff who wish to become mentors themselves.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT - Vision Training & Development
Thursday 3rd December, 9.30 - 4.30, Venue BB139

This session will explore a number of issues in project management: the phases and key roles, the project environment and the factors affecting it, project report tracking and evaluation, influencing and teamwork. You will have the opportunity to practise project management techniques such as Gantt charts and Work Breakdown Structures.

WORKING EFFECTIVELY WITH YOUR PERSONAL ASSISTANT
Wednesday 24 February 9.30 - 4.30 - Vicki Evans, Vision Training & Development

The session focuses on P.A.s, senior secretarial staff and their managers with the aim of clarifying the roles, responsibilities and challenges of all parties concerned. Using a mixture of questionnaires, structured discussions and interactive methods, the workshop will get you to consider the elements that make a working relationship successful. It will also help you to identify actions that you can take individually and together with your manager to strengthen and improve the effectiveness of the partnership. Managers should attend for the first part of the session.

RECRUITMENT & SELECTION - Presenter: Alison Simcox & Hilary Woodward, Personnel Department
Wednesday 11 November 9.30 - 12.30 (SU staff only) 
Thursday 11 February, 9.30– 12.30, venue EE1100
Tuesday 20 April, 9.30 – 12.30, venue EEG020
Wednesday 2 June, 9.30 – 12.30, venue PLG011 - POSTPONED

This workshop is compulsory for staff who have any role to play in the recruitment and selection process of either staff or students. This session is suitable both as a refresher session or for colleagues who have not attended one before at the University. By the end of the session delegates will have gained and refreshed knowledge of the legal framework affectiing recruitment and selection, diversity and equality of opportunities and will have reviewed all elements of the recruitment process and have considered "best practice".

IMPROVING PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP Presenter - Jane Byford, Martineau Johnson Law Firm
Dates to be arranged

This all-day session is primarlily aimed at senior academic and support managers within the univerity. The session explores, through the use of exercises, group discussions and case studies, your role as a manager working with the various university polices and procedures which help to support performance management. The workshop will familiarise you with the framework relating to employment legislation and aid an understanding of how the university's various schemes support and expand on this.

MEDIATION SKILLS

  • Dates to be confirmed

Mediation is a constructive way of dealing with workplace conflict that can reduce employee complaints, improve staff morale and encourage creative problem-solving And co-operative working relationships. This two-day workshop covers the mediation process and skills, how to be impartial, challenging prejudices and stereotypes, action planning & review, how mediation works alongside disciplinary, grievance and other procedures.

Please contact Esther Floisand, Personnel Department, ext 2290 or e-mail her at e.floisand@worc.ac.uk  to register your interest in attending any of the above courses.