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Development and Alumni Relations - Staff Learning & Development course timetable

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Tue 26 Mar – Wed 19 Jun

March 2024

Tue 26	Development & Alumni Relations: Community at Cambridge (Joint Induction) Finished 09:30 - 11:30 Trinity Hall, Wyng Gardens 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
	Development and Alumni Relations: Buddies at DAR Finished 10:00 - 11:00 Development and Alumni Relations: Great Ouse Want to become Buddy but not sure what is means? worried about having no experience? Worry no more! In this informal workshop learn about our buddy programme, how to be a great buddy, how to communicate effectively, what to do in difficult scenarios, and a few other top tips! You can ask any questions and raise any concerns you have about becoming a buddy during the session.
	Development and Alumni Relations: Buddies at DAR Finished 13:00 - 14:00 Development and Alumni Relations: Great Ouse Want to become Buddy but not sure what is means? worried about having no experience? Worry no more! In this informal workshop learn about our buddy programme, how to be a great buddy, how to communicate effectively, what to do in difficult scenarios, and a few other top tips! You can ask any questions and raise any concerns you have about becoming a buddy during the session.

April 2024

Mon 8	Development and Alumni Relations: Major Gift Officer Learning Series (2 of 4) Not bookable 09:00 - 17:00 Sidney Sussex College, Sidney Street 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
Tue 9	Development & Alumni Relations: Document Management training for SharePoint & OneDrive - Virtual session Finished 14:30 - 15:30 Development and Alumni Relations: Virtual This virtual session will cover the following: How we use OneDrive, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams when managing documents at Development & Alumni Relations An overview of using OneDrive, SharePoint & Microsoft Teams Provide guidance and best practices on how to find, share & manage documents Provide guidance and best practices on syncing, using Team Chat, shortcuts and downloading Many areas of the document management strategy will be covered in the training. However, you may wish to familiarise yourself with the Document management strategy for SharePoint and OneDrive. We will use MS Teams for the training session. Please use this MS Teams link for the session.
Wed 10	Development & Alumni Relations: Document Management training for SharePoint & OneDrive - Virtual session Finished 10:00 - 11:00 Development and Alumni Relations: Virtual This virtual session will cover the following: How we use OneDrive, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams when managing documents at Development & Alumni Relations An overview of using OneDrive, SharePoint & Microsoft Teams Provide guidance and best practices on how to find, share & manage documents Provide guidance and best practices on syncing, using Team Chat, shortcuts and downloading Many areas of the document management strategy will be covered in the training. However, you may wish to familiarise yourself with the Document management strategy for SharePoint and OneDrive. We will use MS Teams for the training session. The trainer will send a link for you to access the session nearer the time.
Tue 16	Development & Alumni Relations: Podcast Group - How to Coach Yourself Finished 12:00 - 13:00 Development and Alumni Relations: River Cam Welcome to our Podcast Group Series! Each session we will focus on a different episode from a number of different podcast providers, exploring topics to advance our own personal and professional development. Before the session you will listen to the identified podcast and reflect upon individually, in your own time. We will then come together as group for a facilitated discussion and activities to explore the topic in more detail with colleagues and reflect as a group. For this session we will be looking at: How to Coach Yourself This episode provided by Squiggly Careers Amazing If podcasts, looks at some of the tools professional coaches use and how we might apply them to ourselves and aid our own development. https://www.amazingif.com/listen/how-to-coach-yourself/ Please also take a look at the Pod Sheet provided with the episode as we will refer to this in our session.
Wed 17	Development & Alumni Relations: Document Management training for SharePoint & OneDrive - Virtual session Finished 14:30 - 15:30 Development and Alumni Relations: Virtual This virtual session will cover the following: How we use OneDrive, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams when managing documents at Development & Alumni Relations An overview of using OneDrive, SharePoint & Microsoft Teams Provide guidance and best practices on how to find, share & manage documents Provide guidance and best practices on syncing, using Team Chat, shortcuts and downloading Many areas of the document management strategy will be covered in the training. However, you may wish to familiarise yourself with the Document management strategy for SharePoint and OneDrive. We will use MS Teams for the training session. Please use this link to join the session.
Tue 23	Development & Alumni Relations: Document Management training for SharePoint & OneDrive - Virtual session Finished 14:30 - 15:30 Development and Alumni Relations: Virtual This virtual session will cover the following: How we use OneDrive, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams when managing documents at Development & Alumni Relations An overview of using OneDrive, SharePoint & Microsoft Teams Provide guidance and best practices on how to find, share & manage documents Provide guidance and best practices on syncing, using Team Chat, shortcuts and downloading Many areas of the document management strategy will be covered in the training. However, you may wish to familiarise yourself with the Document management strategy for SharePoint and OneDrive. We will use MS Teams for the training session. Please use this MS Teams link for the session.
Wed 24	Development & Alumni Relations: Document Management training for SharePoint & OneDrive - Classroom session Finished 10:30 - 11:30 Development and Alumni Relations: Great Ouse This classroom session will cover the following: How we use OneDrive, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams when managing documents at Development & Alumni Relations An overview of using OneDrive, SharePoint & Microsoft Teams Provide guidance and best practices on how to find, share & manage documents Provide guidance and best practices on syncing, using Team Chat, shortcuts and downloading Many areas of the document management strategy will be covered in the training. However, you may wish to familiarise yourself with the Document management strategy for SharePoint and OneDrive.

May 2024

Tue 7	Development & Alumni Relations: Document Management training for SharePoint & OneDrive - Classroom session [Places] 10:30 - 11:30 Development and Alumni Relations: Great Ouse This classroom session will cover the following: How we use OneDrive, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams when managing documents at Development & Alumni Relations An overview of using OneDrive, SharePoint & Microsoft Teams Provide guidance and best practices on how to find, share & manage documents Provide guidance and best practices on syncing, using Team Chat, shortcuts and downloading Many areas of the document management strategy will be covered in the training. However, you may wish to familiarise yourself with the Document management strategy for SharePoint and OneDrive.
Tue 14	Development & Alumni Relations: Document Management training for SharePoint & OneDrive - Classroom session [Places] 10:30 - 11:30 Development and Alumni Relations: Great Ouse This classroom session will cover the following: How we use OneDrive, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams when managing documents at Development & Alumni Relations An overview of using OneDrive, SharePoint & Microsoft Teams Provide guidance and best practices on how to find, share & manage documents Provide guidance and best practices on syncing, using Team Chat, shortcuts and downloading Many areas of the document management strategy will be covered in the training. However, you may wish to familiarise yourself with the Document management strategy for SharePoint and OneDrive.
Wed 15	Development & Alumni Relations: Effective Email Writing [Places] 09:30 - 17:00 Development and Alumni Relations: Great Ouse Email is a problem that is hiding in plain sight. We all use email every day. Yet, too often, email fails to be the effective communication tool it deserves to be. In this intensive, practical session, we’ll show you how to produce effective communications. You will leave the session to: easily build a logical structure into emails and letters write clearer responses that result in fewer escalations get your message across, whatever you’re writing match your tone and level of language precisely to each reader and much more! The workshop includes a pre-course individual writing analysis to help identify areas for improvement.
Tue 21	Development & Alumni Relations: Document Management training for SharePoint & OneDrive - Classroom session [Places] 10:00 - 11:00 Development and Alumni Relations: Great Ouse This classroom session will cover the following: How we use OneDrive, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams when managing documents at Development & Alumni Relations An overview of using OneDrive, SharePoint & Microsoft Teams Provide guidance and best practices on how to find, share & manage documents Provide guidance and best practices on syncing, using Team Chat, shortcuts and downloading Many areas of the document management strategy will be covered in the training. However, you may wish to familiarise yourself with the Document management strategy for SharePoint and OneDrive.
Wed 29	Development & Alumni Relations: Document Management training for SharePoint & OneDrive - Classroom session [Places] 14:30 - 15:30 Development and Alumni Relations: Great Ouse This classroom session will cover the following: How we use OneDrive, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams when managing documents at Development & Alumni Relations An overview of using OneDrive, SharePoint & Microsoft Teams Provide guidance and best practices on how to find, share & manage documents Provide guidance and best practices on syncing, using Team Chat, shortcuts and downloading Many areas of the document management strategy will be covered in the training. However, you may wish to familiarise yourself with the Document management strategy for SharePoint and OneDrive.

June 2024

Tue 4	Development and Alumni Relations: Major Gift Officer Learning Series (3 of 4) Not bookable 09:00 - 17:00 Homerton College 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
Wed 5	Development and Alumni Relations: Major Gift Officer Learning Series (4 of 4) Not bookable 10:00 - 16:00 Homerton College 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
	Development & Alumni Relations: Document Management training for SharePoint & OneDrive - Virtual session [Places] 10:00 - 11:00 Development and Alumni Relations: Virtual This virtual session will cover the following: How we use OneDrive, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams when managing documents at Development & Alumni Relations An overview of using OneDrive, SharePoint & Microsoft Teams Provide guidance and best practices on how to find, share & manage documents Provide guidance and best practices on syncing, using Team Chat, shortcuts and downloading Many areas of the document management strategy will be covered in the training. However, you may wish to familiarise yourself with the Document management strategy for SharePoint and OneDrive. We will use MS Teams for the training session. The trainer will send a link for you to access the session nearer the time.
Mon 10	Development & Alumni Relations: Effective Email Writing [Places] 09:30 - 17:00 Development and Alumni Relations: Great Ouse Email is a problem that is hiding in plain sight. We all use email every day. Yet, too often, email fails to be the effective communication tool it deserves to be. In this intensive, practical session, we’ll show you how to produce effective communications. You will leave the session to: easily build a logical structure into emails and letters write clearer responses that result in fewer escalations get your message across, whatever you’re writing match your tone and level of language precisely to each reader and much more! The workshop includes a pre-course individual writing analysis to help identify areas for improvement.
Wed 19	Development & Alumni Relations: Effective Email Writing [Places] 09:30 - 17:00 Development and Alumni Relations: Great Ouse Email is a problem that is hiding in plain sight. We all use email every day. Yet, too often, email fails to be the effective communication tool it deserves to be. In this intensive, practical session, we’ll show you how to produce effective communications. You will leave the session to: easily build a logical structure into emails and letters write clearer responses that result in fewer escalations get your message across, whatever you’re writing match your tone and level of language precisely to each reader and much more! The workshop includes a pre-course individual writing analysis to help identify areas for improvement.

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