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Courses: enhance your management skills

In June, July and August, the Leadership and Management Development team are offering a number of practical workshops for line managers and supervisors to enhance their skills when working with change and developing their team members.

These courses are very popular so please book your place as soon as possible. The dates of the workshops can be found here.

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The courses are as follows:

Maximising Contribution

  • Strengthen your ability to hold regular and effective discussions about staff performance and enable team members to maximise their contribution.
  • Learn new techniques to support you when setting clear expectations, providing quality feedback and discussing staff performance.
  • This workshop focuses on many of the key skills required to hold effective appraisal discussions and regular one-to-one meetings.

Enabling Change

  • Enhance your ability to manage and lead effectively when faced with change.
  • Learn new techniques to support you with communicating change messages.
  • Strengthen your ability to identify and resolve potential conflict and develop strategies for overcoming resistance to change.

Managing Underperformance

  • Identify your role and responsibilities to manage the performance of your team members.
  • Recognise barriers to managing performance and how you might address and overcome them.
  • Apply some tools and techniques to drive more productive outcomes when faced with performance issues.
  • Be confident to utilise the processes and resources available within the university to manage under-performance.
  • Create a plan to avoid any underperformance and manage it should it arise.

To book onto the any of the above dates please visit StaffBook.

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