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New Year, New Hopes and New Opportunities

This is the time of year when many of us look forward to making changes. We are more resolute, ambitious and even excited to wipe the slate clean, break bad habits and develop ourselves.

Whether you’re wanting to improve yourself within your current role or are looking to develop yourself further we have the training resources and guidance that you need.

Here are just a few of the development opportunities available to you in the New Year...

Springboard

The Springboard Programme is a national, personal and professional development programme designed especially for women.  This programme helps women recognise their own potential and reach their goals.
 
It helps women to look at ways in which they can prepare themselves for the opportunities in life and fulfil their potential in their careers and their lives in general.

The objectives of the programme are, to enable participants to value what they have and build on their strengths; to develop self-confidence to make things happen; to take more control of their lives (whatever that means to them); to develop assertiveness and to reduce stress and anxiety.

Starts March 2012.

Find out more about Springboard

Aspirational Managers Programme

This programme is aimed at improving the skills and capabilities of staff who aspire to take on management roles for the first time.

It lasts for 12 months and features a curriculum of management development and work-based experience including project-type work, chairing meetings and giving presentations.

Unique to this programme, you will have the chance to develop in real, challenging work situations and through a work-based project. Your development and progress is recorded in and monitored throughout the 12 months.

Successful completion gives you a nationally recognised qualification in leadership and management (the ILM Level 2 Award in Team Leading).

Starts April 2012.

Find out more about the Aspirational Managers Programme

IT training

We have a range of face-to-face and online courses to help you improve your IT skills.

Our face-to -face training will help you to become more skilled and confident in your use of Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

For more specific queries we recommend using the Microsoft training pages which gives you access to free online courses.

Find out more about IT training

Bite Size Learning

We have a range of course only 1.5 hours long designed to help you with your persoanl development.

Our Bite Size courses include:

• Assertiveness - Module 1 and 2
• Delegation Skills
• Time Management - Module 1, 2 and 3
• Presentation Skills - Module 1 and 2
• Stress: Dealing with Stress - Module 1 and 2

See full course listings for individual Bite Size courses

Course information

You can find all the information you need on the Learning & Development website, including:

• A list of all the courses delivered by the all University’s internal training providers
• You can search for a course by title, category or date.
• Easy access to pre-course reading
• Advice on training that may be relevant to your job role
• Information on our qualifications (ILM)
• Details of the mandatory training that must be completed by staff
• Links to online learning resources including You e-Develop
• Access to Trent HR Self Service to book learning events

Booking on

All course listings are also available directly through the Trent HR Self Service booking system.

If you are unfamiliar with Trent HR Self Service please take a look at our Quick Start Guide for course bookings.

If you are a member of staff who does not have access to Trent Self Service bookings and enqueries should be made as follows:

• Members of the Temporary Staff Bank should contact the TSB
• Members of Campus Services staff should contact cstraining@exeter.ac.uk
• All other staff should contact Staff Learning and Development (sld@exeter.ac.uk)

Contact details

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Learning and Development
University of Exeter
Northcote House
The Queen's Drive
Exeter
Devon
EX4 4 QJ

Tel: +44 (0) 1392 724515
Email: sld@exeter.ac.uk

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