The Confident Manager Series is a modular management skills programme focused on people management excellence, where participants shape their learning journeys around key areas relevant to their role and context.
You can tailor your learning by signing up to individual modules, do one or many, and complete them in any order. This means that you can focus on what matters most to you at any given time, and continuously strengthen your people management knowledge, skills, and practice by:
- Developing core people management capabilities, focusing on developing yourself as manager at the University of Oxford, and in the changing world of work
- Maximising your impact as a People Manager, enhancing the effectiveness of your team, and supporting your team members’ personal development
- Practising what matters in a safe environment and through learning from peers across the University
If you are managing a team for the first time whether in your career or for the first time at Oxford, ‘Managing at Oxford’ is a great place to start.
The core modules are:
Understand and demonstrate the core skills and behaviours needed to effectively Manage at Oxford
Explore how to adapt your management approach to support, engage and empower others to perform
Build and manage highly effective Teams
Introduce the role and benefits of Coaching, and when and how coaching skills can be used to support effective line management practice.
Engage and support colleagues during Change taking account of the people side of change
Introduce managers of research staff to key responsibilities and people skills needed to create a healthy and productive research environment.
To supplement the modules, we will also be offering several short online Masterclasses with subject matter experts.
Each module includes a mix of presentation, peer discussions, hands-on exercises, and time for critical reflection. Keeping in mind most learning happens within your own working environment, we will encourage you to reflect on how you can transfer your new knowledge there, embed new working practices and how to involve your manager in helping you do this.