All Change and Programme Management Office courses

Join us for lunch at our exhibition of external professional and industrial partners as well as a relaxed poster and creative showcase made by technical colleagues. There will be prizes for entries and plenty of time for networking.

This interactive workshop is designed to provide an overview of the processes around academic publishing in the UK higher education context. We’ll discuss what authorship looks like for technical staff, introduce the ORCID ID system and provide tips for talking about attribution.

As part of our exhibition, why not take the opportunity to look around the labs and facilities in the Jeffrey Cheah building? Staff will be on hand to explain techniques and equipment.

Tour groups will be small so booking is essential. Register you interest now. (24 places maximum)

A workshop to discuss the benefits of professional registration and provide an in depth overview of the registration process, plus tips on how to successfully complete the application.

There will be talks on training and career development options for technical staff as well as updates on exciting initiatives the University will be launching as part of the Technician Commitment. Guest speakers will also explain the national progress of the scheme.

The Cat’s Whiskers – Technician Commitment is the next event in our series of exclusive live presentations and Q&A sessions. Come and hear Technician Commitment Coordinator, John Nicolson, talk about the importance of the Technician Commitment and the valuable role technicians play within the University, together with his own personal experiences.

We may not all be professional coaches, but we can learn some key coaching skills, so that we can have effective one-to-one conversations and support our colleagues to address challenges they are facing.

This session will introduce you to the skill of asking powerful coaching questions which can help you to better understand others and focus on providing the right level of support for them.

The University's most loved bird, Raven [1], is 15 years old now and is getting some changes [2] like second factor validation [3]. Join us at this session where we'll show you some of these changes and where we will also talk about identity services like Lookup [4]. You will come away with some tricks on how you can make best use of these services to make yourself more discoverable and find other people in the University.

[1] https://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/service/accounts-passwords/it-staff/raven/raven-how
[2] https://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/news/raven-devops-sept2019
[3] https://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/service/support/help-for-institutions/google-cloud-identity
[4] https://www.lookup.cam.ac.uk/

This seminar is presented by UIS in partnership with ourcambridge.

You've heard of a book group, but how about one for podcasts? In these sessions we will focus on a different episode from the wonderful Squiggly Careers Amazing If podcasts, which includes over 300 episodes on career based topics ranging from coaching and confidence, to strength and values.

Before each session you will be sent a link to a podcast episode to listen to and reflect upon. During the session you will be led through a selection of tasks/exercises recommended in the episode Pod Sheet. You will have the opportunity to work on these individually and then reflect back as a group.

Session 8: How to cage your confidence gremlins

In this episode podcast hosts talk about common gremlins that can mean we stall or get stuck in our careers and some of the ‘foods’ (people, past, and places) that grow our gremlins. They share 3 ideas for how you can cage your gremlins so you can explore your potential and possibilities in a squiggly career.

A bite-sized introduction to Understanding Benefits in Lean Management. Please complete the short feedback form (link in interactivity tab next to transcript) to let us know what you think and what we could improve.

An introduction to the questioning techniques 5 Why's and 6 honest men which can be used to understand processes and why things happen in a particular way.

Welcome to the Professional Services Conference

Join us for the first morning of the conference, which will include an opening address, optional breakout sessions and lunch.

“Values are the beliefs that are important to us about the way we interact with each other, how we work together effectively towards common goals and the behaviours that we demonstrate and expect to see from our colleagues.” (Emma Rampton, Registrary)

We are offering this ‘taster’ session to provide you with an introduction to thinking about your values. Following the introduction of the Professional Services Values of trust, respect, integrity and collaboration, we are offering this opportunity for you to consider how you can align these with your own personal values, and what this might mean in terms of how you live your life and go about your work.

This is an interactive session, so please join the call from somewhere where you feel comfortable to talk and participate fully in group activities.

"Values are the beliefs that are important to us about the way we interact with each other, how we work together effectively towards common goals and the behaviours that we demonstrate and expect to see from our colleagues.” (Emma Rampton, Registrary)

We are offering this ‘taster’ session to provide you with an introduction to thinking about your values. Following the introduction of the Professional Services Values of trust, respect, integrity and collaboration, we are offering this opportunity for you to consider how you can align these with your own personal values, and what this might mean in terms of how you live your life and go about your work.

This short video provides an overview of the history and high level principles of Lean as a process improvement methodology.

Join us to hear about the HR Transformation Programme and the benefits that myHR, the new University HR and Payroll system, will bring for every employee.

If you can't make it, the HRTP team is holding a live online version of this talk after the conference on Wed 31 Jan 2024 14:30 - 15:30. Visit the course page to book your place.

The ways in which we work have changed considerably during the past 18 months, both in terms of our minds and our bodies. In this seminar, Dr. Michelle Robertson (Director for the Office Ergonomics Research Committee, Research Scientist at Harvard School of Public Health) will discuss some of the ways that we work and live with our everyday technology, and share thoughts and best practices on how to think about our health and wellbeing.

About the Trainer

Dr. Michelle Robertson is the Executive Director of the Office Ergonomics Research Committee, a lecturer at Northeastern University and the University of California, Berkeley Center of Occupational and Environmental Health, and a research faculty at the University of Connecticut, Psychological Sciences. She has dedicated more than 20 years of her career in systematically designing and evaluating organizational and training interventions that include participatory and macroergonomics approaches, work organisation factors, training system design, computer work environments, office ergonomics, and designing integrated wellness and ergonomics programs. She is a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the International and Ergonomics Association.

These events are sponsored by HR, ourcambridge and UIS as part of the Digital Workplace and Cambridge Works Programmes.

Learn about how the Environmental Sustainability Team is working towards the University’s climate targets, and how sustainability can play a part in your professional life.

The proliferation of communication technologies, such as email and other online messaging tools, has enabled easier and faster information sharing. Coupled with the difficulty of measuring actual performance in today’s knowledge economy, this increased connectivity has caused workplaces to use response speed as a proxy for hard work, signaling to employees that the only way to succeed is to be “always on”. Although prior work has examined the negative well-being and productivity implications of this constant connection to work, relatively little research has investigated the drivers of work connectivity or tested solutions to address it.

In this talk, Laura M. Giurge - assistant professor of behavioral science at the London School of Economics, will introduce a novel driver of work connectivity – the email urgency bias – and present a solution to mitigate it. On a broader level this research can help mitigate the spread of unhealthy work cultures that make employees feel pressured to stay connected to their work even when they are not expected to do so.

About the Trainer

Laura M. Giurge is an assistant professor of behavioural science at the London School of Economics. She is also a research associate of organizational behaviour at London Business School, the Barnes Research Fellow at the Wellbeing Research Centre, at the University of Oxford, and a DSI Fellow at the University of Zurich. Her research focuses on the intersection of management and behavioural science and includes topics such as time, well-being, gender inequality, leadership, and the future of work.