FORTHCOMING COURSES AND BRIEFINGS

Forthcoming courses and briefings
(Please note that our one/two-day courses are run at Rosebery Hall's Conference Centre, and our half-day/short briefing sessions are held on the main LSE campus)

What's related > List of courses available to staff

For most of our events we use a 'just-in-time system' which enables us to respond to demand more efficiently - staff send us booking forms for the specific areas they need training in and once we have sufficient people requiring a particular event we organise one. To book a place on one of our events please complete and send us a booking form.

N.B. As well as the SDU events taking place as listed below, you may like to take a look at The Association of University Administrators events website: http://www.aua.ac.uk/events/ . If you are interested in attending one of their events please complete an External Funding Application Form and send this to the Staff Development Unit (W209).

November 2008

5 November 2008: National Stress Awareness Day - please take a look at the attached POSTER to see what is available and to make a booking!
11 November 2008: Performance Development Review training for Reviewers (a three-hour session) and Reviewees (a two and a half hour session)
11 November 2008: Basic Skills (language support training) - please contact Claire Hackshall for further details of this: c.j.hackshall@lse.ac.uk
12 November 2008 (AM only): Equality and Diversity Training (for managers) - a half-day course
12 November 2008 (PM only): Equality and Diversity Training (for non-managers) - a half-day course
12 November 2008: Manual Handling (a half-day session)
12 November 2008: The use of Evac chair (a half-day session)
12 - 13 November 2008: Recruitment & Selection course (a two-day course)
18 - 19 November 2008: Facilitating your Team (a two-day course) NEW!
18 November 2008: LSE Central Induction 'Flying Start' Briefing
19 November 2008: Positive Retirement Financial Planning Conference: Information & Booking Form
20 & 27 November 2008; 4, 11 & 18 December; 8, 15, 22 & 29 January 2009; 5 February: CMI Introductory Certificate in Management (formerly called ILM/First Line Managers Programme) - ten weeks of half-day sessions, 10am - 1pm each week

December 2008

3 December 2008: Listening, Questioning and Referring Wisely: Helping Skills for Administrators (a half-day session) NEW!
3 December 2008: The use of Evac chair (a half-day session)
3 December 2008: Fire safety awareness - for fire wardens & others with specific roles in fire safety (a half-day session)
9 December 2008: Performance Development Review training for Reviewers (a three-hour session) and Reviewees (a two and a half hour session)
10 December 2008 (1-4pm): Finance Session for First Time Budget Holders (a half-day course)
16 December 2008: LSE Central Induction 'Flying Start' Briefing

January 2009

15 January 2009: Refresher Recruitment & Selection (a one-day course)
20 January 2009: LSE Central Induction 'Flying Start' Briefing
28 January 2009: CIEH Risk Assessment Principles and Practice (a one-day course). For further details please email Ann O'Brien in Health & Safety: a.o'brien@lse.ac.uk

May 2009

14 May 2009: Learning at Work Day 2009

June 2009

10-11 June 2009: Recruitment & Selection (a two-day course)

July 2009

16 July 2009: Positive Retirement Financial Planning Conference: Information & Booking Form

Please note that the cost of running staff development events is high, so once we have offered you a date for your development and you've agreed to attend, we will take this as a confirmed booking. Unless there is a medical reason why you can't attend, cancellation charges will be incurred.

+ The following fitness classes also take place each week:

Wednesdays, 12 - 1pm in the Parish Hall: Belly Dancing with Imelda Michalczyk
Wednesdays, 5 - 6pm in Room D206 [except for 05/11/08 when it is in G212]:
Pilates classes with Michael Gale [the cost is £5 per class if paying in advance or £6 to drop-in]. For further details please email Michael Gale the tutor: michaeljohngale@hotmail.com
Thursdays, 12 - 1pm in the Parish Hall: Body Conditioning/Circuit Training with Mandy Li. For more information please email Mandy at m.li@lse.ac.uk
Thursdays, 1 - 2pm in the Parish Hall: Yoga Classes with Rachel Auburn. For more information please email Rachel at auburnrachel@hotmail.com
Thursdays, 2 - 3pm in the Parish Hall: Tai Chi classes with Ines Alonso-Garcia. For more information please email Ines at i.alonso-garcia@lse.ac.uk

Plus: You may be interested in attending Biodanza classes:
'Biodanza is a system of music, dance movement, creativity and expression and was featured in the BBC TV series Making Slough Happy. The benefits are confidence, freedom, self-worth, wellbeing and happiness. You don't have to be a dancer to do it. There are no steps to learn, all the moves are easy to do and they are based on natural human movements. Biodanza is for the average person who wants to open up to all that's possible, and connect with their own magnificence'.
Gita Sootarsing has run classes for LSE staff in the past and runs her own classes at The Place, just off the Euston Road, 2 stops on the Piccadilly line from Holborn or half a dozen stops on buses 68,168,59 and 91. For further details her website is: www.biodanzacentral.com and her email address is: gitasootarsing@btinternet.com