Training
Professional development, education and ongoing training are central to the University of Otago work experience for all its employees. We have a comprehensive range of training and development programmes offered through Human Resources. Many of these courses also fit into PDR competency groups.
We also have some courses available through tailored training sessions as these are most effective when conducted with groups of people who regularly work together.
Courses by Subject
General Staff Orientation Programme, Dunedin Campus
Management and Supervisory Skills Programme
Programmes
- Supervisory Skills: the basics
- The Essential Management Series: a range of workshops, seminars and lunchtime sessions
Individual Courses
- Coaching: bringing out the best
- Delegation: more than just passing it on
- PDR: Developing Your Staff
- Diversity: understanding and valuing difference
- Employment Issues: dealing effectively with staff
- Negotiation: a problem solving approach
- Supervisory Skills: working with fixed-term or casual staff
- Team Dynamics: the art of leading teams
Key Professional Skills Programme
Running meetings, customer service, time management, administration, project coordination, effective writing, etc.
- Cross Cultural Awareness Workshop
- Customer Service: excellence on the frontline
- Creating an Inclusive Environment
- Diversity: understanding and valuing difference
- English @ Work
- English @ Work: report writing
- Guide to EFTS Funding
- International Students: cultural differences and their impact
- Introduction to Kiwi Culture
- Job instruction: passing on knowledge
- Just a minute: a guide for minutes and meetings
- Mediation: I'm not a mediator but ...
- Meetings: being an effective facilitator
- Meetings: organising effective meetings
- Mental Health: face-to-face with student issues
- Pacific Awareness
- Project Co-ordination: demystifying the process
- Record Keeping at Otago: why we do it and why you should care
- Servicing Formal Committees
- Time Management: finding the time to plan and organise
- Working Well Together: coping at work
- Working Well Together: mental health in the workplace
- Writing Procedures: keeping it clear and logical
Self Management Programme
Assertive communication, mediating conflicts, understanding cultural diversity
- Communicating Assertively
- Communicating: building effective relationships with your colleagues
- Communicating: building effective relationships with your manager
- Communicating: getting a grip on your style
- Communicating Non-defensively
- Conflict: managing it better
- Conflict: practical workshop
- Diversity: understanding and valuing difference
- PDR: helping your manager to help you
- Presentations: projecting confidence
- Time Management: finding the time to plan and organise
Career Development Programme
Understanding your skills, what you value most at work, making the most of career opportunities.
- Career Development: understanding the career thread in your work history
- Career Development: what you value most at work
- Career Development: understanding your skills
- Career Development: understanding your opportunities
- Career Development: making the most of your opportunities
- Career Development: your invisible resume
- Career Development: taking the next step
Staff Policy and Information Sessions
Parental leave, Performance & Development Review, planning for retirement
- General Staff Orientation
- Job Evaluation
- Parental Leave Information Seminar for Prospective and Intending Parents
- Parental Leave Information Seminar for Administrators and Managers
- Performance and Development (PDR) Seminar
- Performance and Development (PDR) Seminar for Reviewers
- Planning for Retirement
Tailored Courses
Please contact the Professional Development team at hrtraining@otago.ac.nz if you are interested in any of these courses.
- Belbin Team Roles
- Safety, Respect and Dignity at Work: dealing with bulling and personal harassment
- Presentation Coaching
Treaty of Waitangi Education Programme for Academic and General Staff
Maori language tuition
Women's Professional Development Programme
At Otago there is a range of activities that cater for the needs of women (both general and academic). The programme is run jointly between Human Resources (main contact is Suzy Keene) and HEDC (main contact is
Rachel Spronken-Smith).
- Mentoring Programme for Academic Women
- Career Development for General Staff Women
- Mentoring Programme for General Staff
The training programme runs in both semesters but other times can be arranged if there is demand. Similarly, if a course is over-subscribed then we will try to run a repeat session.
If you see a gap in the programme or have any other professional development training ideas, we would be happy to hear your suggestions.
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