Development and Alumni Relations - Staff Learning & Development course timetable

How do those reports and documents get such a professional look? Everything just looks so good...

This InDesign course will allow you to do just that. By using paragraph and character styles, installing new fonts, arranging the layout of the page you can create professional looking documents and create them fast. You will also learn how to check your document for errors.

Getting Started with Adobe InDesign

• Identify Components of the InDesign Interface
• Customise the InDesign Interface
• Apply the Navigation Controls and Set Preferences

Designing a Document Using InDesign

• Establish Project Requirements
• Apply Design Principles
• Create a New Document
• Add Text to a Document
• Add Graphics to a Document

Use InDesign to Customise a Document

• Format Characters and Paragraphs
• Apply Colours, Swatches, and Gradients
• Create and Apply Styles

Working with Page Elements in InDesign

• Arrange and Align Objects
• Apply Layers
• Transform and Manipulate Objects
• Thread Text Frames
• Edit Text

Microsoft Excel has lots of underutilised features that can help to save time and improve productivity. The primary objective of this workshop is to show you how to use these features and to demonstrate their effectiveness, challenging you to do things differently.

We will cover:

• Working with Formulas and Functions
• Save time and apply Formulas and Functions to your everyday tasks
• Search for a value in one place and insert it in another using lookup functions
• Avoid the 'pitfalls' of relative cell references
• Test certain conditions and return one of two entries
• Work with named cells to work faster and smarter with your formulas
• Managing large workbooks
• Trace and audit formulas in a worksheet
• Create a simple dashboard
• Produce summary reports from different worksheets
• Merge data from multiple users by linking workbooks

The course includes access to a month's free support on any of the topics covered.

Successfully managing upwards depends on your confidence, diplomacy and influencing skills.

This workshop will empower you to handle tricky situations with your manager or colleagues:

• Benefits of ‘managing up’, what’s in it for you and them?
• Agreeing priorities and setting realistic expectations and boundaries
• Influencing when you don’t have authority
• Getting clarity on delegated work and appreciating the difficulties colleagues may be facing
• Challenging decisions in a way that is solutions-focussed and enables an open two-way discussion

You will also learn how to adapt to different personal styles in order to build an effective working relationship and understand how different drivers and motivators may affect someone else’s thinking, (why do they do that?).

Many people find delivering constructive feedback to be a challenge, frequently declining opportunities to do so, whether from a desire to spare the person’s feelings, avoid an uncomfortable conversation, preserve their image of themselves as ‘nice,’ or save time.

This effective feedback workshop aims to give you a full range of approaches, skills and techniques to help you manage the different feedback situations you face and to give you different frameworks for having constructive conversations.

Objectives

• Understand the fundamental elements of effective feedback
• Learn how to deliver day to day feedback (positive and constructive)
• Be able to receive feedback well
• Know how to create a culture of feedback culture
• Be able to manage personal bias
• Develop specific feedback habits

Many people find delivering constructive feedback to be a challenge, frequently declining opportunities to do so, whether from a desire to spare the person’s feelings, avoid an uncomfortable conversation, preserve their image of themselves as ‘nice,’ or save time.

This effective feedback workshop aims to give you a full range of approaches, skills and techniques to help you manage the different feedback situations you face and to give you different frameworks for having constructive conversations.

Objectives

• Understand the fundamental elements of effective feedback
• Learn how to deliver day to day feedback (positive and constructive)
• Be able to receive feedback well
• Know how to create a culture of feedback culture
• Be able to manage personal bias
• Develop specific feedback habits

Many people find delivering constructive feedback to be a challenge, frequently declining opportunities to do so, whether from a desire to spare the person’s feelings, avoid an uncomfortable conversation, preserve their image of themselves as ‘nice,’ or save time.

This effective feedback workshop aims to give you a full range of approaches, skills and techniques to help you manage the different feedback situations you face and to give you different frameworks for having constructive conversations.

Objectives

• Understand the fundamental elements of effective feedback
• Learn how to deliver day to day feedback (positive and constructive)
• Be able to receive feedback well
• Know how to create a culture of feedback culture
• Be able to manage personal bias
• Develop specific feedback habits

Many people find delivering constructive feedback to be a challenge, frequently declining opportunities to do so, whether from a desire to spare the person’s feelings, avoid an uncomfortable conversation, preserve their image of themselves as ‘nice,’ or save time.

This effective feedback workshop aims to give you a full range of approaches, skills and techniques to help you manage the different feedback situations you face and to give you different frameworks for having constructive conversations.

Objectives

• Understand the fundamental elements of effective feedback
• Learn how to deliver day to day feedback (positive and constructive)
• Be able to receive feedback well
• Know how to create a culture of feedback culture
• Be able to manage personal bias
• Develop specific feedback habits

Many people find delivering constructive feedback to be a challenge, frequently declining opportunities to do so, whether from a desire to spare the person’s feelings, avoid an uncomfortable conversation, preserve their image of themselves as ‘nice,’ or save time.

This effective feedback workshop aims to give you a full range of approaches, skills and techniques to help you manage the different feedback situations you face and to give you different frameworks for having constructive conversations.

Objectives

• Understand the fundamental elements of effective feedback
• Learn how to deliver day to day feedback (positive and constructive)
• Be able to receive feedback well
• Know how to create a culture of feedback culture
• Be able to manage personal bias
• Develop specific feedback habits

Many people find delivering constructive feedback to be a challenge, frequently declining opportunities to do so, whether from a desire to spare the person’s feelings, avoid an uncomfortable conversation, preserve their image of themselves as ‘nice,’ or save time.

This effective feedback workshop aims to give you a full range of approaches, skills and techniques to help you manage the different feedback situations you face and to give you different frameworks for having constructive conversations.

Objectives

• Understand the fundamental elements of effective feedback
• Learn how to deliver day to day feedback (positive and constructive)
• Be able to receive feedback well
• Know how to create a culture of feedback culture
• Be able to manage personal bias
• Develop specific feedback habits

The joint induction aims to provide a broad introduction and overview to all development and alumni relations staff, providing information about the ins and outs of Collegiate Cambridge, as it relates to our area of work. It is also an opportunity for you to network with other new members of staff across the collegiate community.

The session comprises:

• A welcome and introduction from senior members of the University and Colleges
• An overview of development and alumni relations functions, roles and responsibilities, with an opportunity to ask questions
• An opportunity to network with colleagues across Collegiate Cambridge

This programme explores the techniques and behaviours used by skilled negotiators and the importance of developing a sound negotiation strategy, which takes full account of the context in which the negotiation takes place.

Objectives By the end of this session you will know how to:

• Find ways to reach win-win agreements
• Review the key principles of negotiation
• Control the negotiation process
• Identify the characteristics of the successful negotiator
• Identify strengths and development areas with your current negotiation skills

This programme explores the techniques and behaviours used by skilled negotiators and the importance of developing a sound negotiation strategy, which takes full account of the context in which the negotiation takes place.

Objectives By the end of this session you will know how to:

• Find ways to reach win-win agreements
• Review the key principles of negotiation
• Control the negotiation process
• Identify the characteristics of the successful negotiator
• Identify strengths and development areas with your current negotiation skills

This course prepares you to effectively carry out the recruitment and selection process taking you through the stages of producing a person specification, short listing effectively against selection criteria, designing questions, structuring and conducting interviews, and making the final decision. University policies and procedures will also be covered.

This programme explores the techniques and behaviours used by skilled negotiators and the importance of developing a sound negotiation strategy, which takes full account of the context in which the negotiation takes place.

Objectives By the end of this session you will know how to:

• Find ways to reach win-win agreements
• Review the key principles of negotiation
• Control the negotiation process
• Identify the characteristics of the successful negotiator
• Identify strengths and development areas with your current negotiation skills

This programme explores the techniques and behaviours used by skilled negotiators and the importance of developing a sound negotiation strategy, which takes full account of the context in which the negotiation takes place.

Objectives By the end of this session you will know how to:

• Find ways to reach win-win agreements
• Review the key principles of negotiation
• Control the negotiation process
• Identify the characteristics of the successful negotiator
• Identify strengths and development areas with your current negotiation skills

This course prepares you to effectively carry out the recruitment and selection process taking you through the stages of producing a person specification, short listing effectively against selection criteria, designing questions, structuring and conducting interviews, and making the final decision. University policies and procedures will also be covered.

The joint induction aims to provide a broad introduction and overview to all development and alumni relations staff, providing information about the ins and outs of Collegiate Cambridge, as it relates to our area of work. It is also an opportunity for you to network with other new members of staff across the collegiate community.

The session comprises:

• A welcome and introduction from senior members of the University and Colleges
• An overview of development and alumni relations functions, roles and responsibilities, with an opportunity to ask questions
• An opportunity to network with colleagues across Collegiate Cambridge

This programme explores the techniques and behaviours used by skilled negotiators and the importance of developing a sound negotiation strategy, which takes full account of the context in which the negotiation takes place.

Objectives By the end of this session you will know how to:

• Find ways to reach win-win agreements
• Review the key principles of negotiation
• Control the negotiation process
• Identify the characteristics of the successful negotiator
• Identify strengths and development areas with your current negotiation skills

Participants review coaching tools introduced in the Major Gift Officer Learning Series:

• Donor Development Chart
• Priority Grid
• Personality Profiles
• Nine Navigation Points for Strategy
• Process for Locating Philanthropic Passion

Participants plan how they will lead by example to best equip their teams to apply each tool habitually.

Participants step through each of the nine Navigation Points and experienced managers discuss how they have embedded these concepts in their work—what has worked well, and what they would like advice on improving.

Participants discuss their common challenges in coaching team members to greatest advantage and brainstorm how to address these challenges.

Participants create an action plan to commit to supporting their team members regularly, strategically, and intentionally before, during, and after the series.

The session will help us all reflect and prepare for the next iteration of our Gallup Q12 survey.

We would explore the role of line managers on the satisfaction and motivation levels their team members, in addition to the office-wide initiatives that we have in place. What is the responsibility of Leadership Team, of Senior Management Group, and of individual managers to help employees feel engaged, satisfied and motivated, and ultimately to positively impact retention.

An intensive programme providing skills based training on capabilities and strategies for major gift fundraising within the University and Colleges.

The programme consists of four sessions over a five month period;

• Session 1 - Donor-Centred Philanthropy
• Session 2 - Optimising the In-Person Meeting
• Sessions 3 & 4 - Driving Meaningful Commitment

This one-day course is an introduction to managing projects and sets out a series of 10 logical steps and presents them in a practical way.

The course is based on established project management principles which can be applied across industry and although it is not focused on individual organisational methods the training will seek to apply the learning to the specific environments that the delegates work in.

Everyone will be provided with a ‘soft’ copy of Provek’s ‘How to Run a Project (and Succeed!) in 10 steps’ book which includes a number of practical scenarios and examples of key project documentation.

The course will include the following:

• Identifying projects in a world of business-as-usual.
• Creating a life cycle structure for a project.
• Laying solid foundations for a project (business case and requirements).
• Planning a project.
• Getting buy-in for a project.
• Allocating work effectively to a team.
• Monitoring and controlling a project.
• Managing unplanned events (risks, issues and changes).