Performance Management

What is it?

This workshop focuses on performance management as a continuous process that drives development.  It explores the vital role of the manager in creating and maintaining the performance needed of the teams and individuals that they lead.

Target audience

New and existing managers in both academic and professional services who have had no previous training in this area at Royal Holloway.

This course is mandatory for all line managers.

Programme objectives

• Understand the role and responsibilities of the manager in managing team and individual performance
• Appreciate how to create and maintain high performance in your team
• Describe the difference between good and unacceptable performance and behaviour
• Have the confidence and skills to address under-performance

Programme facilitator

Organisational Development.

Course length

Half-day course.

What is it?

This course focuses on our institution wide responsibility for student mental health and wellbeing.  If you are a student-facing member of staff, you may notice students in mental health distress through your everyday interactions.  This course is designed to help you to respond sensitively to this, and to direct students to appropriate support.

Outline

This course will cover:

• SMART Wellbeing
• The support available to students from our teams and how this can be accessed
• Case studies and discussion of the kinds of issues that may arise
• Answering your questions about mental health and wellbeing support for students.

There will also be an overview of the support available to staff through the Employee Wellbeing Programme and Togetherall.

Target audience

All staff in student-facing roles

Programme facilitators

Wellbeing Department

Course length

1 hour

The Advance Prog: Professional and Career Development Planning (for Academic and Research Staff)  

What is it?

For many early career researchers, the focus has traditionally been purely to ‘write a thesis and then some papers’ with little thought to how that might lead on to the next step or even what that next step might be.   Increasingly, however, this tactic is not hugely robust.  As researchers we need to be far more proactive about planning our own journeys and positioning ourselves accordingly.  This is not, for some, easy or natural.

So, when it comes to a longer-term career plan, how and where do you even start?

In this focused webinar, tailored to research and led by a former academic, we will focus on the different elements of career planning and help you to identify the steps you need to take and the aspects that will help you to take control of your career.

Workshop objectives

During the workshop we will help you to:

• design a career planning process that works for you, your personal style and professional goals
• identify the types of activities that will help to build your career and profile – regardless of whether you want an academic career or not
• start to develop an action plan of what you personally may need to focus on and take ownership of

Target Audience

Research staff, ECRs, Junior academics