St Andrews Manager Programme

Key details: This programme will run as 4 consecutive day sessions in the following sets: Monday 24-Thursday 27 June 2024, Monday 15-Thursday 18 July 2024 and Monday 5-Thursday 8 August 2024. Participants will be emailed to organise choice set for attending.

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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.

On completion of this programme, you will have a team plan dove-tailed into the University Strategy, a team development plan and have a personal development plan.

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

The programme is a blend of OSDS directed learning and in person workshops covering 4 consecutive days and a discussion group.
Commitment includes:
  • 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 horizon scanning your service and what you expect to achieve over the coming year culminating in a team plan. This plan will then be used for the next session where you will be conducting a skills gap analysis and creating a development plan for your team. Day 3 will continue your journey by using that team plan and development plan and considering how to ensure your team are not overloaded with tasks and can be productive whilst ensuring that their wellbeing is being addressed. 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

  • Scanning and planning your service
  • Skills and behaviours: Developing your team

Day 3: Managing Productivity

  • Focus and Success: Being productive
  • Managing team wellbeing

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. We will keep your manager updated as the programme progresses and encourage them to engage with you about how you are finding the programme and applying the learning and how they can support you to best effect.

Core

5 courses - you have to complete all of the following instances:

Programme organiser

OSDS
Email: osdscourses@st-andrews.ac.uk