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People and Organisational Development's response to the current COVID-19 crisis
POD wants to support you during this Coronavirus crisis and, while we are currently unable to offer face-to-face learning, we have continued to look out for remote learning opportunities that may be of interest as well as designing a number of virtual workshops and webinars to meet organisational need. Our upcoming online workshops can be found on our course listing.
In time we hope to be able to provide a flexible combination of socially distanced face-to-face workshops, for those who are able to attend in person, and online workshops to meet the needs of those whose circumstances, own health, or caring responsibilities prevent them from attending in person. From Trinity term 2021, we hope to return to running some of our workshops face to face if government and University guidance allows, keeping your safety paramount.
The table below pulls together a range of self-access courses, guides and toolkits, all of which can be accessed from home at a time that works for you. The University also has a subscription to LinkedIn Learning where you can access a variety of online learning for free.
If you have any questions or suggestions for how POD can best support you during this period, please contact us at pod@admin.ox.ac.uk.
You may find it useful to download our short self-diagnosis tool which can help identify your priorities for learning.
Self-access courses and resources
| Category | Courses and resources |
|---|---|
| Harassment and bullying | Challenging behaviour: dealing with bullying and harassment in the workplace |
| Equality and diversity | Equality and diversity briefing |
| Tackling race bias at work | |
| Implicit bias | Implicit bias in the workplace |
| Managing people | Delegating work |
| Inclusive leadership | |
| Managing people: key processes | |
| Managing your manager | |
| Motivation at work | |
| Prioritising work |
| Category | Courses and resources |
|---|---|
| Planning and organising your time | Time management eBook |
| Prioritisation | Time management tips |
| Effective time management | |
| Project management | Project management simplified |
| Category | Courses and resources |
|---|---|
| Assertive communication | The essentials of assertive communication |
| Assertiveness | |
| Writing documents/ speed reading | Speed reading |
| Editing and proof reading made simple | |
| The basics of writing work documents | |
| Learning to really listen | Active listening |
| Listening skills | |
| Active listening – hear what people are really saying | |
| Meeting - planning and leading discussions | Managing meetings |
| Minutes and agendas | |
| Planning and running meetings | |
| Having courageous conversations | Dealing with challenging behaviour in the workplace |
| Difficult conversations | |
| Dealing with challenging conversations | |
| Presentation skills | Improving your presentations |
| Advanced presentations | |
| Essentials of presenting | |
| Presentation skills and techniques |
| Category | Courses and resources |
|---|---|
| Networking | Building your professional network |
| Networking | |
| Influencing | Influencing essentials |
| Working with your stakeholders | |
| Building constructive workplace relationships | Managing up, down and across the organisation |
| Working with difficult people |
| Category | Courses and resources |
|---|---|
| Awareness of impact on others | Developing self-awareness |
| Perseverance/resilience | Building resilience |
| Enhancing resilience | |
| Resilience | |
| Managing my reactions | Manage your emotional triggers |
| Managing your emotions if things get tense | |
| Regulating your emotional responses | |
| Stress and stress management | |
| Anger and agression | |
| Work-life balance | Balancing work and life |
| Work-life balance | |
| Resilience at work | Developing your emotional intelligence |
| Emotional intelligence | |
| Responding to change | Embracing change |
| Embracing unexpected change | |
| Developing myself | Developing myself |
| Category | Courses and resources |
|---|---|
| Problem-solving | Problem-solving techniques |
| What is problem-solving? | |
| Problem-solving checklist | |
| Thinking creatively | Creativity tools |
| Courses and resources |
|---|
| Career Weaver |
| Developing myself for the next role |
| Careers Support Network |
| Category | Courses and resources |
|---|---|
| Induction for new staff | Induction for new staff |
| Recruitment and selection | Recruitment and selection |
| Planning retirement | Planning retirement |
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