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www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
A Toolkit for New Professionals
Catherine Lillie and Nicola Owen
Manchester, Friday 27 June 2014
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Welcome and Introductions
By the end of the day you will be able to:
• Understand a range of approaches to workload planning, time management and prioritisation
• Consider how to use resources and solve problems effectively
• Have a greater understanding of how to work well with others
• Have an appreciation of communication skills
• Know how to identify your own competencies and confidence in a range of professional behaviours
• Adopt a planned approach to career development
• Share best practice and learn from the experiences of others
• Take a range of tools and techniques back to the workplace
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Introductions
• Who you are
• What you do and where
• Two images-
1. how you feel right now
2. where you’d like to be by the end of the day
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Personal Effectiveness
In this section:
- Time management
- Managing workload
- Prioritisation
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Time management
Wasters and drains
Top tips
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Time management
Last minute
Emotional response
Lack of control
Under prepared / unconfident
Unprofessional / demoralising
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Time management
Last minute
Time squeeze
Focus efforts
Other tasks slip
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Workload management
Group exercise:
It’s 9am and you have just been asked to complete two urgent reports, for two different managers. They will each take around six hours to complete and the deadline for each of them is 9am the following morning.
What do you do?
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Task management
Identify goals Project manage Work backwards from deadlines
Plate spinning
Action plan
Say no Don’t
procrastinate
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Prioritisation
Exercise: In Trays
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Refreshment break!
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Role Effectiveness
In this section:
- Creative problem solving
- Lateral thinking
- Using resources
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Problem solving and lateral thinking
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Problem solving
EXERCISE:
communication break-down
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Using resources
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Lunch!
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Working with Others
In this section:
- Dealing with challenging situations
- Understanding yourself and others
- Negotiation and influencing
- Delivering feedback
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Dealing with challenging situations
“It’s my tag”
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Dealing with challenging situations
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Understanding yourself and others
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Understanding yourself and others
Other tools and diagnostics to find out more about yourself and others:
Schein’s career anchors 360 feedback
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Delivering feedback
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Delivering feedback
Feedback Criticism
Seeks solutions Seeks to apportion blame
Forward looking Dwells in the past
Is objective Is subjective
Is tough on problems Is tough on people
Giving Feedback - Balanced - Observed - Objective - Specific - Timely Receiving Feedback - Listen - Clarify - Analyse - Respond
Taken from the Pansophix Useful Guide to Feedback
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Negotiation
The process of…
- Identifying variables*
- Discussing options
- Agreeing terms
* 3 Variables
1. What you must gain, retain or are not prepared to lose
2. What you would prefer to gain or retain
3. What you are prepared to lose
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Influencing
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Working across office boundaries
Delegation
Two decisions:
1. Which responsibilities or tasks do you want someone to carry out on your behalf?
2. How much authority you are giving them to complete it?
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Working across office boundaries
Managing Upwards
Knowledge and understanding Be prepared Give concise
information
Know when to escalate
Share the good news
Identify alternatives
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Good Communication
In this section:
- Professional writing
- Using meetings
- Getting your message across verbally
- Effective Powerpoint
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Professional Writing
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Using meetings
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Verbal communication
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• This is not the best way to get your message across by PowerPoint.
• There are too many words and bullet points on the page and some long paragraphs.
• There is a lot of detail, but it will make very little impact. You might as well give people a written paper rather than present by PowerPoint.
• You cannot read small font very well on the screen and some people will be short sighted.
• If you just speak to the words on the screen, you will not communicate well. PowerPoint is only one part of a presentation. It is a communication aid but only as part of a wider range of communication methods, such as verbal and non-verbal. It can help provide a structure and narrative to a meeting but it is not a crutch for you to use to ensure that you remember what to say or don’t have to look at the audience. Modulate your voice and do not drone on.
• The point of your slides is to illustrate or expand what you are going to say to your audience.
• You should know what you are going to say and then visualise it – so planning a script is important. Have a narrative – a beginning, middle and end. Use one point per slide – people will read the slide and if you give them the next points they will have already moved on and not concentrate on you. Use animation to reveal your points. But not too much or it will cause nausea. And use images sparingly.
• Sometimes it is best not to use PowerPoint at all, or present and then use one slide to circulate as an aide memoire.
Effective Powerpoint
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Effective Powerpoint
Make 3 Points
Tell a Story
Keep it Visual
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Refreshment break!
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Career Planning and Development
In this section:
- Careers in HE
- Career planning and recording development
- Using the AUA Accredited Membership Framework
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there
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Career Planning and Development
Career (n): one’s advancement through life, especially in a profession
Career (v): to move or swerve about wildly
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Careers in HE
Did you intend to build a career in HE or
was it an ‘accident’?
Was your current role a planned and managed career move?
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Careers in HE Potential factors impacting on career progression for UK HE
PSS staff
Career Progression
Appraisal
External Factors
- Hera
- Financial climate
- Labour market
PESTLE
Professional silos
External appointments Advice,
support, training
Restructuring
Development opportunities
Line Manager
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Career Planning
Visualisation Exercise
Spend two minutes imagining you could design your perfect job description- with its own pay
structure, working hours and conditions and job elements. Note down your ideas.
What would you do in your career? What
elements of your current role would you keep, lose or change?
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Planning and recording development
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Planning and recording development
Reflective practice
Concrete
experience
Observations and reflections
Formation of abstract concepts
(Experimental) actions
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The Accredited Membership Framework
CPD
Capability
Reflection
CPD
Capability
Reflection
Accredited Member
Member Fellow
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Evaluation and reflection
• Understand a range of approaches to workload planning, time management and prioritisation
• Consider how to use resources and solve problems effectively
• Have a greater understanding of how to work well with others
• Have an appreciation of communication skills
• Know how to identify your own competencies and confidence in a range of professional behaviours
• Adopt a planned approach to career development
• Share best practice and learn from the experiences of others
• Take a range of tools and techniques back to the workplace
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Evaluation and reflection
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More information at www.aua.ac.uk
Email: aua@aua.ac.uk
Call: 0161 275 2063
Association of University Administrators (AUA) @The_AUA
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