04 Jul 2022 07:41 am

July staff training sessions

There are new training sessions available to support staff in the month of July.

These courses can be recorded in your PDR as evidence to support your personal and professional development needs.

Please log into iTrent to book your place on a course.

If you are unsure if the courses you wish to attend are related to your role, please discuss them with your line manager or email staff.development@beds.ac.uk.

Please see below for more details:

Mental Health Skills for Managers
Date: 05/07/22
Time: 10:00 - 14:00
Virtual Session

Overview:

This course is ideal for people managers. This course builds skills in your leaders to feel confident to have a mental health conversation as part of their everyday management.

Learning outcomes:

• Identify if an employee may be experiencing mental health issues
• Feel confident and know how to open conversations about mental health at work
• Appropriately signpost to available support and know where to go for support and guidance for yourself

Target Audience: Managers

PDR Training for New Managers
Date: 12/07/22 & 20/07/22
Time: (9:00 – 10:30) + (11:00 – 12:30)
Virtual Session

Overview:

This session provides tools and tips for new managers and all those wanting a short review of best practice. This session is a great first point of call to help you deal with getting over the first hurdle when meeting with your team. The PDR system has moved beyond a 'tick box exercise'.

The training will give you time to explore:

• Helping your colleagues learn from feedback and experience
• How to use values and behaviours to improve performance
• Tips and techniques for addressing difficult issues
• Understanding how to set useful, impactful objectives
• This is a highly interactive session, with plenty of opportunity to ask questions as well as practise some of the techniques.

Target Audience: New Managers and Line Managers

Identifying Training and Development Needs for your Team
Date: 13/07/22
Time: (11:00 - 12:00)
Location: Luton Campus – G302

Overview:

This session focuses on how to draw out the development and training needs for your staff and determine the types of interventions that can support them to meet these needs.

Target Audience: Managers and Team leaders

New Manager’s Workshop
Date: 14/07/22
Time: 10:00 – 14:00
Virtual Session

Overview:

The New Managers workshop is an interactive workshop designed to provide new and aspiring managers with the confidence and key skills required to inspire, motivate, and lead their teams and individuals towards success.

Learning Outcomes:

• Exploring the concept of adaptive leadership based on various theorists and approaches to manage even the most challenging situations
• Exploring the importance of creating a plan for the first few months with the new team – setting expectations, building confidence and trust
• Exploring the key principle associated to active performance management, setting objectives, monitoring progress, reviewing achievements, providing feedback setting and agreeing performance improvement plans

Target Audience: New Managers

LEAN for Managers
Date: 19/07/22
Time: 12:00 - 15:00
Location: Luton Campus – Room G225

Overview:
The objective of this session is to better understand how we can ourselves apply a Lean and Continuous Improvement mind-set at work. We will try and answer questions together such as:

• What can I do differently when it comes to the activities I can control?
• Can I remove unnecessary activities or streamline them?
• Do I have any problems which I can solve once and forever?

At the end of the session we want to be able to answer two questions:

• Can I improve the way I work using small incremental steps?
• How do I use a Lean Mind-set to do this?

Target Audience: Managers

ZEN Leadership
Date: 20/07/22
Time: 11:00 - 14:00
Luton Campus: Room: A404

Overview:

This workshop introduces the way of the Zen Leader, giving you the insight of leading beyond doubt, fear, and ego to get your colleagues and team resonating with you, making your most significant difference with joy, wisdom and wonder.

Outcomes:

• Remove stress & suffering in our daily lives with practices to remove tension and extend energy by unwinding the body and relaxing the mind.
• Understand what is triggering your emotions & behaviour.
• Discover the habits that are holding you back.
• Transform the negative energy of your fears into positive outcomes.
• Learn to keep calm and carry on amid the storm with practices that maintain deeper concentration and self-regulation.

Target Audience: Managers

Time Management
Date: 27/07/22
Time: 10:00 - 14:00
Bedford Campus - Room G1.14

Overview:

• The skills to understand your own personal approach to managing yourself
• The skills to understand your own personal barriers
• An understanding of effective and proven time management techniques based on recognised theorists
• An understanding of your decision-making process and how this might be enhanced
• An understanding of how to analyse and evaluate time available and how to invest it
• An understanding of what you might ‘dump’, ‘do’, ‘delegate’ to be more effective

Target Audience: Managers and Leaders

Development, Reward and Recognition
Date: 28/07/22
Time: 12:00 – 13:00
Bedford Campus – Room: P2.05

Overview:

The aim of this session is to focus employee engagement though recognition and reward with the aim to increase staff retention, employee engagement and increased productivity in a bid to create a more positive environment.

Target Audience: Managers and team leaders