Passport to Management Excellence
A 'Passport to Management Excellence' programme was funded in 2010 to help managers develop within a framework which is consistent across all Schools and Units.
If you would like to join the programme and be issued with your own passport, please complete the Application Form for Management Passport (Word, 82 KB) and return to CAPOD.
Please note, participants require their manager's permission to take part in the programme.
Objectives
- Enable Managers to feel confident and competent when managing their teams.
- Enabling these staff to recognise they are part of a wider management group across the organisation and encouraging them to work cross-functionally.
- Building on prior learning and knowledge.
- Creating a group of management mentors to help develop less experienced staff in the future.
- Constructing a mechanism which can link to Q6 review actions.
The Management Passport concept
- For new and existing managers.
- Participants attend relevant core and optional courses. Optional courses will be discussed and agreed with own line manager.
- Participants will use a learning log in the form of a passport to record progress.
- We recognise that some staff may have relevant, recent, learning experiences. This learning can be accredited under the Management Passport Scheme.
- Online learning tools will utilised as appropriate.
- Participants kept informed by a series of 'passport postcards' from Passport Control.
- On completion of the Management Passport, participants will be invited to become Mentors for future participants.
The passport
Visas: Core courses (attendance is required)
- Diversity Skills for Managers
- Effective Communication
- Health and Safety for Managers
- Introduction to Project Management
- Lean Thinking Managers
- Managing Change
- Managing Performance
- Money Matters
- Q6 reviewer training
- Recruitment and Selection
- Supervising Your Staff
- Time Management
- Understanding Motivation
- University Finances
Learning Journeys: Role-specific courses (attendance is encouraged if relevant to the individual's role and should be discussed and agreed with own manager)
- Assertiveness
- Back to the Future: Skills for the 21st Century Manager
- Budget Management
- Coaching: An Introduction
- Discover Your Team Role (Belbin profile)
- Excellent Customer Service Within Your Team
- Lean Tools for Managers
- Managing Conflict
- Managing Difficult Conversations
- Mediation Skills
- Presentation Skills
- Scottish Mental Health First Aid
- Sharing Staff Survey Data With Your Team
- Speed Writing
- Train the Trainer
- Understanding Thinking Styles
- Writing Strategies
Independent Travel: Other Development
- 15FQ+ personality profiling
- 360 feedback
- Action Learning sets
- Awayday with own team
- Benchmarking visit
- JTI personality profiling
- Moodle resources
- Networking activities
Passport to Management Excellence briefing slides (PDF, 685 KB)
Background
The University ran a number of courses designed for Managers which were independent of one another and were open to participants who chose to attend by self-selection. Potentially, there was a large cohort of staff with management responsibilities who opted not to attend any form of management development. There was a concern that these staff, who are responsible for translating strategic direction into operational action, may not have been developing the skills required to be successful.
The need for more a joined up approach for management development became apparent due to a greater emphasis on performance management together with the wish for staff to work cross-functionally. Data from the staff survey also supported the need to develop managers’ confidence and skills.