Skills for Effective Team Work
Duration 0.5 days
Team Researcher Academy


This face to face course is run by the Researcher Academy 

The Researcher Academy courses are very popular and the majority are run in both semesters to give you the opportunity to attend at a time of the year that suits you. 

Target Audience: Early stage postgraduate research students and early career researchers 

Description

This course will use materials and resources developed from the BBC series “The Apprentice” to offer a practical approach to developing team-working skills. The course will develop skills which will be useful in your current working situation as a postgraduate research student and also in recruitment procedures, particularly assessment centre activities, where you will often be required to demonstrate effective team-working skills and behaviours.

Aims: To help you to develop and exercise team-working skills

Objectives:

By the end of the course you will have:

  • Identified the key principles of successful teamwork
  • Learnt some simple techniques for applying these principles to the teams in which you work or in other situations where you are required to work collaboratively

Related Courses:

  • Introduction to assertiveness and negotiation skills
  • Putting the skills of negotiation and teamwork into practice Teamworking is an essential element of today's working world. Employers of PhD graduates often express concern about the development of this skill within a research degree. This course offers you the opportunity to review your team working approaches, both in the context of your current working situation, and also as a way of demonstrating to others outside academia your practical understanding and development of this important skill.

Course Accessibility

The following table shows a summary of what is needed to participate in the course. 

If you feel you will experience any difficulties participating, please let us know via the ‘special requirements’ tab, providing as much information as possible. The special requirements tab can be completed when you book your place. Alternatively, you can contact us directly at ra-training@nottingham.ac.uk.

Print off pre-requisite paperwork/ resources & bring them to the course (optional)
Bring your own laptop/ PC to the course (optional)
Access seminar room on campus
Attend the course at the specified date and time
Watch and listen to the course tutor(s) and/or other attendees
Follow presentation slides during the course
Take part in group activities/ discussions

Booking Conditions

Latecomer policy

Researchers should plan to arrive prior to the advertised course start time. Except for exceptional reasons, there will be no admittance to a Researcher Academy or Faculty Training Programme (FTP) course 15 minutes after the advertised course start time.

Importance of booking commitment

When booking on to a Researcher Academy short course you are entering into a commitment to attend. If you find that you are no longer available to attend you MUST cancel your place (on the system if more than three days before the course) or if at short notice by emailing pg-training@nottingham.ac.uk. This will ensure that your place can be offered to another researcher on the waiting list. Failure to cancel a place results in other researchers missing out on places through the waiting list process.

It is unacceptable for researchers to just not attend when booked onto a course. Researcher Academy maintains records of those who repeatedly do not attend courses they have booked. This may affect future eligibility to book onto further Researcher Academy courses and will affect considerations for Researcher Academy funded opportunities.

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