St Andrews Manager Programme
Key details: This programme will run as 4 consecutive day sessions Participants will be emailed the dates set for attending.
Audience
- Academic staff
- Professional staff
- Research staff
Programme information
This programme will focus on the critical competencies that you need as a manager at the University of St Andrews. The programme entails 4 consecutive days consisting of outcome focussed workshops covering how to manage yourself, your staff, and your service.
Programme Aims
- To build line management capability
- To build critical management knowledge and skills
- To increase self-awareness in relation to own management competencies
- To create a community of managers transcending boundaries between units, schools, disciplines, and professional backgrounds.
Target audience
The St Andrews Manager Programme is suited to all staff who have existing people management responsibilities and are looking to develop and enhance their management skills.
Time Commitment
- 4 full day sessions – 2 workshops per day.
- 1 – 2 hours of directed learning between sessions.
Programme information
This programme will begin your journey with the crucial element of how to communicate well with colleagues and direct reports. Day 2 will start your thinking towards continually assessing your service and how it can improve. This will be followed by skill gap analysis to ensure staff have the skills and behaviours to support that continuous improvement. Day 3 will continue the journey by exploring how to ensure your team are not overloaded with tasks and can be productive whilst ensuring that the team resilience is in place. The last day of this journey will focus on you as a manager; what development do you need? Followed by an Action Learning Set where we ask managers to prepare to talk about a real-life management challenge that they would benefit from peer input. 1-2 people will be able to discuss their situation.
To ensure that your time spent in the training room will be action orientated, pre-programme work will be assigned before each of the 4 days. A link to the Moodle page will be issued prior to the start of the programme.
The anticipated dynamic of the programme will enable delegates to learn from each other in an engaging and inclusive way and will be facilitated in a professional manner ensuring everyone takes some key learnings from the programme. It is designed for our managers and led by you, the delegates.
The programme culminates in you sharing stories of how your learning has impacted on you as managers and the difference this has made. We encourage you to schedule time to capture your personal reflections as you progress through each element of the programme, as well as following discussions with your nominating manager.
Day 1: Managing People
- Programme launch
- Communication for effective managers
- Managing across cultures
Day 2: Managing the Service
- Continuous Service Improvement
- Knowledge, Skills and behaviours
Day 3: Managing Success
- Workload Management
- Team Resilience
Day 4: Managing Self
- Planning your personal development
- Action learning Sets
- Programme close
Material and Resources
The programme is supported through Moodle, LinkedIn Learning and SharePoint.
Sign-up process
As part of the sign-up process you will identify your aspirations for completing the programme, and the skills and behaviours you are looking to develop which you will be given access to a Moodle page closer to the day. You will discuss this development with your manager to agree how best to set you up for success. Once you have requested your interest in attending the programme OSDS will contact you to organise which date set you would prefer to attend.
Core
5 courses - you have to complete all of the following instances:
- 1 - 2 hours of directed learning between sessions
- Day 1: Managing People
- Day 2: Managing the Service
- Day 3: Managing Success
- Day 4: Managing Self