Supporting and developing our staff is crucial to the future success of the university and to meet our vision to be the best modern university in the UK by 2030. Within an inclusive environment, we invite staff to actively develop their job roles, pursue their career aims and fulfil their potential through attendance on our development opportunities.
The core programme includes online and in person, internally and externally facilitated development sessions aimed at both academic and professional services staff. The sessions have been chosen from training needs analysis and support the implementation of the university's strategy and our informed by the university values.
Discover our development opportunities on Horizon Learning.
For further information on how to navigate Horizon Learning, please see the below guidance documents available on Portal:
Horizon Learning Guidance for Staff
Horizon Learning Guidance for Line Managers
Please contact us on lnd@gre.ac.uk if you would like to discuss any aspect of your own or your team's development needs, or if there any events that you would like to see included in the Programme.
Part of our development opportunities also includes extensive online resources. The following are mandatory or essential training that staff will need to complete, depending on their role
If you are student staff, please use the Target Connect platform to access mandatory and essential training.
The following is a summary of some of the other development opportunities available.
New staff who are joining the University in a line management role and existing staff who have been internally appointed to roles with line management responsibility are required to complete a 1 day Line Manager Induction session which can be booked on Horizon.
Line managers are also expected to complete a suite of Line Manager Training within their first year of becoming a line manager to support the excellence in leadership and management priority of the People Sub-Strategy 2022-30. Existing line managers should also complete this training. The available training sessions can be seen below and are booked on Horizon:
Course Title | Duration | Method of Delivery |
60 minutes | Online | |
Managing teams and working relationships when things get tricky | 120 minutes | Online |
Horizon – Navigating the system to effectively manage your teams | 90 minutes | Online |
60 minutes | Online | |
120 minutes | Online | |
120 minutes | Online | |
3 hours | Online | |
3 hours | Online | |
90 minutes | Online | |
UKVI right to work training (only essential if completing right to work checks) | 90 minutes | Online |
45 minutes | Online | |
1.5 hours | Self-paced | |
3 hours | Online | |
75 minutes | Online | |
2.5 hours | Online | |
Coaching for Line Managers - Session 2 - Solution focused coaching | 2.5 hours | Online |
Coaching for Line Managers - Session 3 - difficult conversations | 3.5 hours | Online |
4 hours | Online |
To support personal and professional development staff can access LinkedIn Learning resources which supplement and complements existing development opportunities. There is no limit to how much you access or what you access whilst working at the university. LinkedIn Learning is a beneficial way to collaborate with colleagues by sharing useful training resources with your contacts.
There are two ways to access LinkedIn Learning. The first way to access is via the Staff Portal. This will take staff to the whole catalogue of courses within LinkedIn Learning. To help you navigate LinkedIn Learning, we could recommend you complete the How to Use LinkedIn Learning course. Any courses staff complete using this method of access will not show on your View Transcript (Learning History) tile within Horizon. If you want a record of your LinkedIn Learning course completion to appear on your Learning History in Horizon, please click on Me>Learning>View Transcript>Actions>Record External Learning Experience and input the relevant information. Finally click on Submit.
The second way to access LinkedIn Learning courses is via Horizon Learning. A selection of recommended LinkedIn Learning courses has been integrated into Horizon. These will be added to and updated on a regular basis. If you complete the courses within Horizon they will automatically appear in View Transcript (Learning History) tile within Horizon.
The Aurora Programme is a leadership development programme organised by Advance HE for all people who identify as a woman. It was designed to help address the issue of the reducing numbers of women in senior posts in Higher Education. The Programme aims to enable a wide range of women in academic and professional roles to think of themselves as future leaders and to develop leadership skills and strategies.
Aurora is for women up to and including senior lecturer level (AC3) or professional services equivalent (up to and including SG8) who would like to develop and explore issues relating to leadership roles and responsibilities.
Aurora addresses core areas associated with leadership success and takes a partnership approach with institutions and participants, providing an intervention that combines an introductory webinar, online development days, online action learning sets, an in-person networking event, in-house mentoring and self-directed study to provide learning with a more enduring impact.
For further information about Aurora please see Horizon Learning.
The South East Action Learning (SEAL) Programme is a cross-institutional development programme for all people who identify as a woman working in Higher Education. It is an innovative action learning programme which aims to support career development and offers an opportunity to work with peers from other universities to build leadership skills, explore different perspectives and be supported to tackle challenges.
Places on the programme are centrally funded by the participating universities, and you will attend two in-person meetings and four online action learning sets over a six month period.
For further information about The South East Action Learning (SEAL) Programme please see Horizon Learning.
Outside Insight is an inter-university work shadowing scheme for staff. The participating universities are geographically within London and the South-East of England.
Work shadowing for the purpose of this scheme is defined as spending time with and observing the work of a member of staff in a department or role of interest from a participating institution in order to gain insight into work in that area. The programme encourages professional development in a way that allows participants to have a wider appreciation of their field and to share and bring back knowledge of work practices from other universities.
Generally and especially during appraisal, managers and staff can consider which developmental needs can be addressed as a work shadowing opportunity.