Glasgow Excels – Managers’ Learning Festival is a one-day development experience for line managers at the University of Glasgow, designed and facilitated by the Organisational Development team. The event has been designed for established line managers from across the University and focuses on practical, impactful skill-building in a supportive environment, with expert-led sessions that will help you explore important moments across the employment lifecycle in a safe and supportive environment.
What does the day include?
- Sharpen your skills: a focus on four key areas of management skill to help support your team at different stages of their employment journey.
- Expert guidance: insights in a supportive environment from both expert session leads, and from specialist teams in our advice marketplace.
- Network with peers: meet managers across the University in different roles.
- Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Glasgow Excels has been designed for anyone with responsibility for line managing others, from any job family across the University. It is free to attend and open to any UofG manager. Please note that the sessions assume management experience and so the event is not suitable for anyone who is not already a line manager.
Why a one-day festival?
The University invests in managers’ development in a number of ways, primarily through our management and leadership programmes, including our Management Fundamentals programme, and through open courses such as Leading an Effective Team. To support the best learning experience, these offerings are based on small groups, typically around 16 people at a time. With around 1800 managers at UofG, we have introduced Glasgow Excels to provide development support at scale and build an experience that delivers learning for many, but with a manageable time commitment.
A one-day learning festival allows the team to reach larger numbers of colleagues on a small number of key topics that all UofG managers will come across in their day-to-day practice, and that we know are priority areas from feedback in the Colleague Engagement survey. We are running Glasgow Excels on multiple dates, aiming to reach as many UofG managers as we can.
To book on please visit your People XD learning and development dashboard and under ‘Book a course’ search for keyword “Excels”. Click on the three vertical dots, and then ‘Request to attend course’ to book on the date you wish to attend, or join the waiting list if you can’t make any of the current dates.