Development and Alumni Relations - Staff Learning & Development course timetable

A lively, fast-paced mix of demonstrations - learn how to create professional PowerPoint slides that will keep your audience engaged through the length of your talk - and pick up lots of time-saving tips along the way.

We will cover:

• Adding visual interest to reach your audience
• Understanding and working with SmartArt
• Setting up and reformatting an organisation chart
• Converting existing presentations to create high impact slide shows
• Preventing 'death by PowerPoint'
• Create a "flow" that will hold your audience's attention
• Adding animation effects and timing to slides
• Tailor your presentation to different audiences, using custom slide shows
• Branching to specific slides in a slide show
• Importing an outline document into PowerPoint
• Saving a presentation so that other people can watch the presentation on most computers

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

Microsoft Excel is great for storing and organising your data, but it can be time-consuming and frustrating to find the information you need.

This workshop will show you how to use Excel's powerful tools to quickly retrieve, view and summarise information in numerous ways.

We will cover:

• Ensuring accurate data entry with data validation
• Time-saving filters
• Visually explore and analyse data using conditional formatting
• Create interactive filters in PivotTables
• Present your information as a chart
• Dos and don'ts when working with data
• Time-saving tricks and shortcuts

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

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.

Finely tuned business-writing skills give you a real advantage when you need to get people to sit up and take notice.

In this intensive, practical session, we’ll show you how to produce effective business writing quickly, and get your documents to the top of the pile. You can apply the methods we teach to all areas of your business: proposal writing, reports, procedures, letters and emails.

The workshop includes a pre-course individual writing analysis to help identify areas for improvement.

What you'll learn

On this one-day course you will learn how to: • set a clear objective • build a logical structure • get your key messages across • choose an appropriate style • establish and build rapport • keep readers reading • make your writing more readable • write confidently and clearly • construct sound, clear sentences • use punctuation logically and helpfully • be sure of your grammar • leave a positive last impression

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

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

Finely tuned business-writing skills give you a real advantage when you need to get people to sit up and take notice.

In this intensive, practical session, we’ll show you how to produce effective business writing quickly, and get your documents to the top of the pile. You can apply the methods we teach to all areas of your business: proposal writing, reports, procedures, letters and emails.

The workshop includes a pre-course individual writing analysis to help identify areas for improvement.

What you'll learn

On this one-day course you will learn how to: • set a clear objective • build a logical structure • get your key messages across • choose an appropriate style • establish and build rapport • keep readers reading • make your writing more readable • write confidently and clearly • construct sound, clear sentences • use punctuation logically and helpfully • be sure of your grammar • leave a positive last impression

Finely tuned business-writing skills give you a real advantage when you need to get people to sit up and take notice.

In this intensive, practical session, we’ll show you how to produce effective business writing quickly, and get your documents to the top of the pile. You can apply the methods we teach to all areas of your business: proposal writing, reports, procedures, letters and emails.

The workshop includes a pre-course individual writing analysis to help identify areas for improvement.

What you'll learn

On this one-day course you will learn how to: • set a clear objective • build a logical structure • get your key messages across • choose an appropriate style • establish and build rapport • keep readers reading • make your writing more readable • write confidently and clearly • construct sound, clear sentences • use punctuation logically and helpfully • be sure of your grammar • leave a positive last impression

Finely tuned business-writing skills give you a real advantage when you need to get people to sit up and take notice.

In this intensive, practical session, we’ll show you how to produce effective business writing quickly, and get your documents to the top of the pile. You can apply the methods we teach to all areas of your business: proposal writing, reports, procedures, letters and emails.

The workshop includes a pre-course individual writing analysis to help identify areas for improvement.

What you'll learn

On this one-day course you will learn how to: • set a clear objective • build a logical structure • get your key messages across • choose an appropriate style • establish and build rapport • keep readers reading • make your writing more readable • write confidently and clearly • construct sound, clear sentences • use punctuation logically and helpfully • be sure of your grammar • leave a positive last impression

Finely tuned business-writing skills give you a real advantage when you need to get people to sit up and take notice.

In this intensive, practical session, we’ll show you how to produce effective business writing quickly, and get your documents to the top of the pile. You can apply the methods we teach to all areas of your business: proposal writing, reports, procedures, letters and emails.

The workshop includes a pre-course individual writing analysis to help identify areas for improvement.

What you'll learn

On this one-day course you will learn how to: • set a clear objective • build a logical structure • get your key messages across • choose an appropriate style • establish and build rapport • keep readers reading • make your writing more readable • write confidently and clearly • construct sound, clear sentences • use punctuation logically and helpfully • be sure of your grammar • leave a positive last impression

Finely tuned business-writing skills give you a real advantage when you need to get people to sit up and take notice.

In this intensive, practical session, we’ll show you how to produce effective business writing quickly, and get your documents to the top of the pile. You can apply the methods we teach to all areas of your business: proposal writing, reports, procedures, letters and emails.

The workshop includes a pre-course individual writing analysis to help identify areas for improvement.

What you'll learn

On this one-day course you will learn how to: • set a clear objective • build a logical structure • get your key messages across • choose an appropriate style • establish and build rapport • keep readers reading • make your writing more readable • write confidently and clearly • construct sound, clear sentences • use punctuation logically and helpfully • be sure of your grammar • leave a positive last impression

Partners in Philanthropy is a workshop for all development support staff, that provides a greater understanding of the concepts that make up the development process. Participants discover key elements of identifying their role in development, understanding donor motivations, and exploring how to better support the development process. The workshop also provides an understanding of development vocabulary and creates the foundation necessary to support a cohesive culture of philanthropy throughout the organisation.

The workshop will cover:

• Introduction: A brief overview of the workshop, including the research and concepts that serve as its foundation, as well as the process of donor development and the roles of different team members.
• Understanding Donor Motivation: Participants gain understanding of the development process from the perspectives of donors.
• Becoming a High-Performance Team Member: Participants learn guidelines and skills for building trust-based relationships with both internal and external constituents.
• Adapting to Donor Profiles: Participants learn how to identify the profiles of others and explore different personality styles and techniques for communicating with donors (and colleagues) more effectively.
• Creating a Gratifying Gifting Experience: Participants explore methods for ensuring donors feel appreciated and valued, and gain understanding of how to set the stage for future contributions.

Partners in Philanthropy is a workshop for all development support staff, that provides a greater understanding of the concepts that make up the development process. Participants discover key elements of identifying their role in development, understanding donor motivations, and exploring how to better support the development process. The workshop also provides an understanding of development vocabulary and creates the foundation necessary to support a cohesive culture of philanthropy throughout the organisation.

The workshop will cover:

• Introduction: A brief overview of the workshop, including the research and concepts that serve as its foundation, as well as the process of donor development and the roles of different team members.
• Understanding Donor Motivation: Participants gain understanding of the development process from the perspectives of donors.
• Becoming a High-Performance Team Member: Participants learn guidelines and skills for building trust-based relationships with both internal and external constituents.
• Adapting to Donor Profiles: Participants learn how to identify the profiles of others and explore different personality styles and techniques for communicating with donors (and colleagues) more effectively.
• Creating a Gratifying Gifting Experience: Participants explore methods for ensuring donors feel appreciated and valued, and gain understanding of how to set the stage for future contributions.

Partners in Philanthropy Briefing is a workshop for previous participants of the Major Gift Officer Learning Series.

Participants will receive a refresher of the tools, techniques and concepts covered in the original learning series and explore how these will be embedded into the organisation to better support the development process and create a cohesive culture of philanthropy.

Microsoft Excel is great for storing and organising your data, but it can be time-consuming and frustrating to find the information you need.

This workshop will show you how to use Excel's powerful tools to quickly retrieve, view and summarise information in numerous ways.

We will cover:

• Ensuring accurate data entry with data validation
• Time-saving filters
• Visually explore and analyse data using conditional formatting
• Create interactive filters in PivotTables
• Present your information as a chart
• Dos and don'ts when working with data
• Time-saving tricks and shortcuts

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

Enhancing Manager Conversations, hosted by Tiny Pause, aims to help you create an open culture where staff feel able to talk about mental health, by equipping you with the skills and tools to sensitively and confidently start those conversations. A recent MIND survey found that only two in five employees felt that their manager would be able to spot the signs they were struggling with poor mental health.

At the end of the session, you will be able to:

• Understand how to implement simple team routines to strengthen team psychological safety - vital for team performance and adjustments to workload
• Identify when a team members mental health is worsening and be able to address this effectively with the individual - increase confidence
• Follow a simple proven structure to help you have the initial and follow up conversations and active listening technique 1 on 1 role play
• Learn the difference between being a caring colleague and a manager's legal responsibility when dealing with a stressed member of the team
• Learn the importance of managers and leaders protecting time each day for psychological recovery - manage difficult thoughts and recharge focus

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.

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

This session provides you with an overview of the upcoming Gallup employee engagement survey that will be launching on 23 January 2023.

We will be joined by our partners at Gallup who will share the science and research behind the survey, how being engaged at work is beneficial to you and why you should take part to have your voice heard.

You will also have the opportunity to ask any questions of Gallup including the confidential nature of your responses, time commitment, how they will be used, or anything else!

Join the Q12 Quest!

The Staff Review and Development (SRD) process provides the opportunity for you to engage in a constructive discussion with your line manager about your current and future work and your personal and career development.

Join Bukky for this informal session which will cover an overview of the process, practical advice and useful reminders of good practice to help you to make the most of SRD. The session is a chance to consider how you can prepare for a constructive and meaningful discussion, and ask any questions you may have.

The Staff Review and Development (SRD) process provides the opportunity for you to engage in a constructive discussion with your line manager about your current and future work and your personal and career development.

Join Bukky for this informal session which will cover an overview of the process, practical advice and useful reminders of good practice to help you to make the most of SRD. The session is a chance to consider how you can prepare for a constructive and meaningful discussion, and ask any questions you may have.