Professional Services Staff Development Bulletin, March 2019

6 March 2019

This is where you will find details of upcoming staff development courses, programmes, workshops and events that may be of interest. All activities contribute towards PositiveWorking@Bristol.
The University is committed to creating and sustaining a fully inclusive culture. We encourage staff from all backgrounds and communities to engage with our development opportunities.

Subjects featured in this edition are:

Staff Development opportunities

New development workshop dates available

New development workshop dates are available to book. Before booking onto a course, please read through our terms and conditions.

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Managing Change
Date: Monday 8 April
Time: 9:30am to 4:30pm

Self-defence Essentials
Date: Monday 20 May
Time: 10am to 12 noon

Managing yourself and your time
Date: Thursday 23 May
Time: 9am to 5pm

Two People, One Job: Effective job sharing (for current job share pairs to attend together)
Date: Wednesday 29 May
Time: 9am to 1pm

Strategies for Managing Performance
Date: Friday 31 May
Time: 10am to 4pm

Join Staff Development on Yammer

For those who are yet to use Yammer - it is an enterprise social network designed by Microsoft to aid teamwork in business. Yammer is built into your suite of Office 365 tools, along with other apps such as Outlook, Word and Excel, and is free to use. Yammer is already helping colleagues at the university to connect – to discuss and share news and ideas – and to collaborate openly.

We invite you to join our conversation and to follow Staff Development on Yammer, so that you can stay up-to-date with all our most recent news!
If you are still unsure what Yammer is or are wondering how best to use it – then watch this brief and informative video by Imperial College London which explains everything you need to know to get started.

KnowHow - Gender equality

Friday 8th March is International Women's Day and the theme for 2019 is #BalanceforBetter:
A balanced world is a better world. How can you help forge a more gender-balanced world?
Celebrate women's achievement. Raise awareness against bias. Take action for equality.

The university aspires to a fully inclusive culture, and is committed to addressing workplace barriers to equality, diversity and inclusion. Over the past 5 years we have taken action to address the gender balance, including narrowing the gender pay gap, and maintaining our work with the Athena SWAN Charter. Athena SWAN has also been extended to all non-STEMM schools.
For more information on the work the University is doing in this area, see the Gender in the Workplace web pages.
Despite our progress, there is always more that we can do, and building an inclusive culture requires all staff to contribute.

Take a look at these KnowHow articles, which highlight the importance of a diverse and inclusive workplace, and steps we can take to reach this:

Top Tips for Aspiring Female Leaders
These top tips will help you to prepare for, and make, the transition from management to leadership. The challenges are largely the same for men and women, however there are some gender differences. So these tips are for the ladies. But gentlemen, feel free to read on too!

How to Support Female Talent
Read about five key ways that organisations can support female talent.

Making a Career Comeback at UBS
Read about how investment bank UBS launched a Career Comeback programme to help women who've taken a break from work move back into leadership roles.

University opportunities

Celebrate International Women's Day - Friday 8 March

All staff and students are invited to take part in a mass photoshoot to celebrate International Women’s Day on Friday 8 March at 8.30am in the Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building.
No RSVP required, simply turn up and celebrate women who inspire. Photos taken will be shared on social media.
It will also be an opportunity to see the Vote 100 portraits that honour notable Bristol women who have changed the institution - and the world.

If you have any IWD events you would like to publicise then please submit them to: Sophie.Duncombe@bristol.ac.uk

Take a look at www.bristol.ac.uk/women/ to see other ways in which the university is recognising the achievements of Bristol women, and to find out about upcoming events celebrating women.

Bristol Wellbeing Therapies: Getting the Balance Back

We are inviting Bristol Wellbeing Therapies to run their Getting the balance back workshop for UoB staff, which is a service that you might have access to through your GP. As a responsible employer we want to offer this to colleagues.

This is a free psycho-educational course which provides a structured space to explore how well we look after our mental wellbeing and teaches some CBT techniques to manage stress and improve mood. This course aims to address:

Triggers and symptoms of stress
Explore the impact of stress on our lifestyle, physical wellbeing, thoughts and behaviour
Tips to build resilience, including stress-busting and self-care
Recognising and managing worry
Exploring the impact of stress on our communication

These sessions are open to all staff, and you can sign up via Oncourse here.

NEW MyERP training course for line managers

Dates are now available for a new two-hour MyERP training course for current line managers. This new course will cover the reporting options and processes to support line management in MyERP, focusing on:

Staffing information and reports
Line management processes and approval tasks conducted in MyERP
High level overview of the sickness recording process

Check dates and book your place here.

SETsquared workshops

SETsquared is the global #1 University Business Incubator - a long standing enterprise partnership between the universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton, and Surrey. SETsquared Bristol host a range of events from workshops to networking evenings to investor showcases. Below is a list of SETsquared workshops happening this month.

SETsquared Workshop: Brainstorming Techniques
Date: Thursday 21 March
Time: 9:30am to 12:30pm

SETsquared Workshop: Marketing Messages
Date: Thursday 21 March
Time: 1pm to 4pm

SETsquared Workshop: Wise me up to cold calling
Date: Thursday 28 March
Time: 2pm to 4pm

Lynda.com

Lynda.com is a leading online learning platform. It provides thousands of structured videos with a focus on IT, technical, creative, business, and education skills.

Other opportunities

Online courses from FutureLearn

Beyond the Ballot: Women's Rights and Suffrage from 1866 to Today
Explore the remarkable story of the campaign for women’s right to vote and its impact on equality to the present day.

Modern Empowerment in the Workplace
The 21st century is transforming the workplace. Explore the role of human resources (HR) in this modern empowerment era and learn how HR practitioners can empower individuals, organisations and society.

Quote of the month

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Jane Goodall