Management and team skills training for early career researchers

11th to 13th March 2011

This is a two-day residential management and team skills training course, fully funded through the Roberts skills development and training fund.

The activity aims to develop participants’ skills in working as part of a team, including:

 

  • Effective communication
  • Negotiation
  • Constructive conflict
  • Leadership and development of team cohesion
  • Setting objectives
  • Decision-making
  • Time management
  • Resource management
  • Creative thinking
  • Risk taking
  • Problem solving
  • Planning and control

This course is an exciting approach to learning about management, leadership and team development. You will engage in a series of outdoor challenges designed to test and develop the skills necessary for successfully working as part of a team and as a manager. You will work in teams and will be accompanied by a facilitator. Through structured reflection, you and your team, with the aid of the facilitator, will explore relevant management theories and frameworks. The course does not require an above average level of fitness and personal needs such as disabilities, injuries, dietary requirements, and other special arrangements can be accommodated.

Transportation from Highfield campus is provided leaving at 4.00pm on Friday 11th March and returning early afternoon on 13th March. You will be accommodated in a hotel but will have to share rooms. All meals are provided.

Places are limited and allocated on a first come first serve basis.

If you would like to attend please book your place on StaffBook.

For further information please contact Professor Julia Bennell (j.a.bennell@soton.ac.uk).

Feedback from previous courses:

All courses have been rated above 4.5 out of 5 overall.

"Many thanks again for the brilliant course. I really feel its impact will stay with me forever."

"The best part was the range of activities with constructive feedback from the facilitator. The balance between learning and enjoying worked extremely well. The balance between activities and reflection felt just right also."

"Good practical exercises to challenge our personal assumptions about our capabilities, facilitator available all the time for feedback."

"This was a unique opportunity to explore personal characteristics in a contrived environment. Working with people I had never met before meant I could explore and alter different aspects of my behaviour; an opportunity which would not have presented itself otherwise."