Registrar’s Event
22 April 2013
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Welcome
Chris Sexton
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Ice-breaker Questions
• Individual with the highest years of service
(tables 1,4 and 8)
• Individual with the lowest years of service (tables
2, 5 and 9)
• Individual who has worked in the most
departments in the University (tables 3 and 6)
• Individual who has had the most jobs at the
University (tables 7 and 10)
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Prizes
• Juice Goody Bags
• Hospitality card for £10
• An hours treatment with the complementary
therapist
• Cinema Tickets
• Juice Lunch for 4
• Delivered buffet for 10 by refreshwithUS
• Lunch for 2 at the University Arms
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Objectives
• To provide an opportunity to meet the Registrar and senior
professional staff
• To provide a forum where staff from a range of professional groups
come together and meet each other
• To update on the progress of the Sheffield Professional and
consider how we will use this, the difference it can make
• To understand and discuss the opportunities for and expectations of
professional staff in the University and how we will support and
develop them
• To help inform future thinking and next steps, including how we
make this real for others
• To have fun!
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Outline of the session
• Welcome and ice-breaker
• Registrar’s presentation
• The Sheffield Professional
• Table Discussion
• Refreshments
• Project Update
• Creating time and the right environment to innovate
• Session round up
• Close and review
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Valuing the Talent
of our Professional Staff
Dr Philip Harvey, Registrar and Secretary
The University of Sheffield
Remember this?
The power of
ensemble
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And this?
The power of
ensemble
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And this?
The power of
ensemble
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Another kind of gold medal winner
The power of
ensemble
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What don’t you see?
The team behind the
scenes.
The professional skills
which make the show
possible and who
deliver a fantastic
experience.
Best in the business!
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What is your skill?
World class
performance
is not
restricted to a
single role.
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We all need
to develop
our talents
and to shine.
What have we done today to
make us feel proud?
Dr Marcello
Rivolta – action
on hearing loss.
Major
breakthrough in
use of stem cells
to cure deafness.
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Outstanding research which
changes lives
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Solar cells made using a process
like spray painting developed by a
research collaboration between
scientists at the Universities of
Sheffield and Cambridge.
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Improving local industry and creating jobs and opportunities
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Student volunteering and
enterprise
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Teaching and the student experience
The university
most students
would
recommend to
their friends.
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The team behind the success
• Outstanding talent spread across the
departments and faculties, as well as
within the central professional services.
• Skills which are found in all major
successful organisations, but tailored to
suit Higher Education.
• But we want to do more…
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Spotlight on professional services –
what success looks like to me…
• Embracing opportunity
• Step change for Sheffield
• Reputation for being the best at what we do
• Attracting and nurturing talent vital to our
Strategic Plan
• Creating possibilities for students and for staff –
and telling the world!
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Questions and challenges
• How do we
support the
academic mission
of the University?
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• Do we know what
success looks
like, today and
tomorrow?
#1
#2
Times Higher
Education Student
Experience Survey
STUDENT
SUPPORT
TEAM
HR TEAM
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Student
Accommodatio
n
Students Union
Student
Support
University
Library
Award-winning performance
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The
Sheffield Professional
Martin Lewis
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The Sheffield Professional
The story so far…
April 2013
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What is ‘The Sheffield Professional’?
• A positive way of describing the experience of
working in a professional services role at the
University
• A set of principles which describe the agreed
ways in which we behave and can expect our
leaders, managers and colleagues to behave
• A work in progress!
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Who are the Sheffield professionals?
• (Video clip)
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Where did it start?
• A commitment by the Registrar & Secretary to value the
talent of our professional staff and ensure that everyone:
• feels that their contribution matters
• can play a part in shaping the change
• creates award winning performance
• understands what success looks like today and
tomorrow
• is able to make their voice heard.
• Project managed by the Talent Management Steering
Group supported by HR
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How are we developing it?
• One to one interviews with steering group members
• Feedback from the Registrar’s event in November
(approx. 100 professional staff)
• Champions’ workshop: representatives from Faculties
and Professional Services
• 8 focus groups from Faculties and Professional Services
(approx. 80 staff)
• HR exchange workshop
• Induction event feedback
• You - your feedback today
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What does it look like?
• Based on our discussions so far
• Key words and phrases
• Intended to be concise and easy to
understand
• Replaces the Professional Services
Values
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by
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together
• Taking
personal
• Keenchallenged
to learn and share
• Celebrate
success
knowledge
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What next?
• Refining and further development following your
feedback today
• Launch in early June
• Piloting and testing, and further refining June –
September
• We’ll start using the Sheffield Professional to influence
all areas of the staff experience in the new academic
year
• We’ll keep it under review, and develop it along with the
Sheffield Leader and The Sheffield Academic
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The Sheffield
Academic
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The Sheffield
Professional
Leadership
behaviours
Academic
behaviours
The University of Sheffield
team member
Shared values
Partnership
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Professional
staff
behaviours
Now: your chance to contribute!
• On your tables:
• Discuss the draft Sheffield Professional
statements (your facilitator has a copy for
you)
• Think about what might need to change or to
happen to move this forward
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Speed Dating!
Pat McGrath
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Speed Dating
Take a few moments to consider Martin’s
presentation, the film and the draft Sheffield
Professional statements.
In your speed dating discussions consider:
• What do you think of these?
• What might need to happen/change to
take the Sheffield Professional forward?
One big suggestion/question
At the end of the speed dating hold a 5
minute table discussion to capture at least
one suggestion or question to be taken
forward
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Refreshments &
Networking
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Valuing Talent
Rob Gower and Steph Allen
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Valuing Talent
• The aims of our project
• What we hope to achieve
• What we have done to date
• What we plan for the future
• Your suggestions
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Project Aims
• To create a flexible professional workforce and in doing
so:
• Break down barriers between teams, departments and services
• Improve career opportunities – more ability to move about the
University
• Continue to increase the contribution Professional Staff make to
the University
• Recognise the important role Professional Staff play in
the success of the University
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What we hope to achieve
• Improve recognition for professional staff
• Staff feel empowered to take responsibility for their
career
• Greater movement of staff around the University,
building skills, sharing experiences and encouraging
new ideas
• Closer working between team, departments and services
leading to improved outcomes
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What have we done so far?
• Registrar’s Events – good opportunity to build
relationships
• Sheffield Professional – creating a shared set of
behaviours for all Professional Staff
• Engaged staff in discussion – events and focus groups –
up to 300 staff so far
• New Sheffield Professionals web-page
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Things we already do
• Mentoring schemes – GROW in Engineering and MDH
• Workshadowing – Centre of the University Programme
(CUP) in Student Services
“Understanding the pressures on academic staff and
understanding each other's work made the department and
its work more tangible [and] gave us both ideas on how we
can work better together.”
• Other examples across the University.
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The future?
• Guidance on short term placements, job
swaps and work shadowing on the Sheffield
Professionals site
• Develop the Sheffield Professionals site into
the first point of call for all Professional Staff
• We want your ideas
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Suggestions
• Any ideas?
• Contact us at r.c.gower@sheffield.ac.uk or
s.j.allen@sheffield.ac.uk
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How to make time and create
the right environment to be
innovative
Emily Hopkinson
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One big question
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Random brainstorming process
Step
one:
Choose an
object at
random
Step
two:
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List as many
of the objects
attributes as
possible
Step
three:
Apply the
attributes to
your issue
Random brainstorming process
Step
one:
Choose an
object at
random
Step
two:
List as many
of the objects
attributes as
possible
Step
three:
HOW CAN I MAKE TIME TO BE CREATIVE AND
INNOVATIVE?
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Apply the
attributes to
your issue
Session Roundup
Valerie Cotter
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Objectives
• To provide an opportunity to meet the Registrar and senior
professional staff
• To provide a forum where staff from a range of professional groups
come together and meet each other
• To update on the progress of the Sheffield Professional and
consider how we will use this, the difference it can make
• To understand and discuss the opportunities for and expectations of
professional staff in the University and how we will support and
develop them
• To help inform future thinking and next steps, including how we
make this real for others
• To have fun!
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Session Close and
Review
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Session Review
• Please complete the review form which
will be circulated by your table facilitator
and post it in the review box on your way
out
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To
Discover
And
Understand.