At the organisational culture meetings in June, one of the ideas from staff attending those meetings and that received the most votes was the suggestion of communication training.

In the light of this feedback, we are offering a couple of [non-compulsory] workshops this year on communication skills, to be held on the 20th and repeated on the 25th October.  These workshops will be led by Andrea Bankier from Sheffield who has worked at UC and currently facilitates a number of the Learning and Development workshops offered through UC’s Staff Development programme.  Andrea will cover a range of tools in this workshop that will be helpful for communicating generally including upwards, downwards and sideways communication.  The sessions will include the chance to discuss real situations, practice and practical application.

We are very much aware that this will be a busy time of year for a number of us, so we are only scheduling two workshops this year with the intention to repeat these again in 2017 so more staff have the opportunity to attend.  Session length will be 2.5 hours.  Tea and coffee will also be available.

Bookings can be made here