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A chronological listing of forthcoming staff training and development activities through the Staff Development Partnership.

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May 2012

Date

Duration

Training Activity
W/c 30/04/2012    
Tue 1 May 2012 9.30am - 10.30am

Introduction to Health and Safety at the University of Leicester
*Cancelled - Tue 1 May 2012   1.30pm - 3.30pm  Windows 7 Upgrade -
Windows 7 Familiarisation
Wed 2 May 2012 9.30am - 1.00pm Guided IT Learning Session
Wed 2 May 2012 9.30am - 4.30pm  Exploiting NVivo 9  
2 Day Course:
Wed/Thursday
2 and 3 May 2012		 9.30am - 4.30pm
each day		 Project Management
Thu 3 May 2012 9.30am - 1.00pm  Word 2007: Working with Long Documents  
Thu 3 May 2012  1.30pm - 4.30pm  Introduction to Using an Access Database  

Thu 3 May 2012

 9.30am - 3.30pm 

Leading from the Middle: Being a Head in Higher Education
A Midlands Staff Development Partnership (MSDP) external event hosted by  University of Wolverhampton
*Cancelled - Fri 4 May 2012 9.30am - 11.30am  Windows 7 Upgrade -
Outlook 2010 Familiarisation  
W/c 07/05/2012    
Tue 8 May 2012 9.30am - 4.30pm Recruitment and Selection
*Cancelled - Wed 9 May 2012 9.00am - 4.30pm Managing Grievance Skills Workshop for Senior and Middle Managers
Wed 9 May 2012 9.15am - 10.30am Open World of Research: Complying with Funder Requirements
*Cancelled Wed 9 May 2012 - Rescheduled to Wed 23 May 2012 9.30am - 12.30pm Radiation Safety
Wed 9 May 2012  12.30pm - 2.00pm  Blackboard is Changing Version 9.1  
Thu 10 May 2012 9.30am - 12.30pm Appraisal Skills Workshop
*Cancelled - Thu 10 May 2012  1.30pm - 3.30pm  Windows 7 Upgrade -
Windows 7 Familiarisation 

*Cancelled Fri 11 May 2012 -
rescheduled to
Fri 14 September 2012

 10.00am - 4.00pm SAP: Raising and Printing Purchase Orders, Goods Receipting and Invoice Verification
W/c 14/05/2012    
*Cancelled - Mon 14 May 2012  9.30am - 11.30am  Windows 7 Upgrade -
Outlook 2010 Familiarisation 
Mon 14 May 2012   9.30am - 4.30pm  Make Yourself Employable  
A Midlands Staff Development Partnership (MSDP) external event hosted by Birmingham City University (City North Campus) 
Tue 15 May 2012 9.30am - 12.30pm 

Teaching Physics with MATLAB
organised by Department of Engineering, University of Leicester.  Open event, no need to book. Venue: 4th floor of the Engineering tower, main campus.  For information contact Andrew Norman andrew@norman@le.ac.uk
Tue 15 May 2012 2.30pm - 4.00pm  Windows 7 Get Ready presentation (Departmental Invitation) Biochemistry plus English Association
Wed 16 May 2012  9.30am - 12.30pm   SPSS - Data Management and Introduction (SPR event)  
Wed 16 May 2012 9.30am - 1.00pm Plone - Introduction
Wed 16 May 2012 10.00am - 4.00pm Effective Verbal Communication
*Cancelled - Wed 16 May 2012  1.30pm - 3.30pm  Windows 7 Upgrade -
Windows 7 Familiarisation  
Wed 16 May 2012    2.00pm - 4.30pm    Good Practice in Research: Ethical Standards, Responsible Conduct and University Policies
Thu 17 May 2012 9.15am - 4.45pm 

Handling Conflict at Work
A Midlands Staff Development Partnership (MSDP) external event hosted by  University of Warwick
Thu 17 May 2012 1.00pm - 5.00pm Guided IT Learning Session
*Cancelled - Fri 18 May 2012  9.30am - 12.00pm  Windows 7 Upgrade -
Windows 7 Managing Your Files and Folders 
*Postponed Fri 18 May 2012 - to be rescheduled 10.00am - 12.00pm Finding Funding (SPR event)
Fri 18 May 2012 2.30pm - 4.00pm Windows 7 Get Ready presentation (Departmental Invitation) Biology
W/c 21/05/2012    
Tue 22 May 2012 9.30am - 11.30am  Windows 7 Upgrade -
Windows 7 Familiarisation 
Tues 22 May 2012   12.00pm - 1.00pm Agency Worker Regulations (AWR)
*Cancelled - Wed 23 May 2012 9.00am - 2.30pm Managing Grievance Skills Workshop for Front-line Managers
Wed 23 May 2012 9.30am - 12.30pm  Radiation Safety
Wed 23 May 2012   1.30pm - 3.30pm Windows 7 Upgrade -
Outlook 2010 Familiarisation 
Fri 25 May 2012  10.30am - 12.00pm  Windows 7 Get Ready presentation (Departmental Invitation) Division of Corporate Affairs and Planning
W/c 28/05/2012    
Mon 28 May 2012 9.30am - 12.30pm  Interviewing Skills for Researchers (SPR event) 
Mon 28 May 2012  9.30am - 1.00pm  Creating an Access Database  
*Cancelled - Mon 28 May 2012 1.30pm - 3.30pm  Windows 7 Upgrade -
Windows 7 Familiarisation 
Tue 29 May 2012  9.30am - 12.30pm  SPSS: Describing and Exploring Data (SPR event)  
Tue 29 May 2012 9.30am - 1.00pm Guided IT Learning Session
Wed 30 May 2012  9.30am - 11.00am Information Security: Handling information at the University for new staff 
Wed 30 May 2012  1.30pm - 3.30pm  Windows 7 Upgrade -
Office 2010 What's New? (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access 2010) 
*Postponed Thu 31 May 2012 - new date to be confirmed 9.30am - 11.00am  Information Security: Protecting your research data    
Thu 31 May 2012 9.30am - 11.30am Windows 7 Upgrade -
Outlook 2010 Familiarisation
Thu 31 May 2012   2.30pm - 4.00pm  Windows 7 Get Ready presentation (Departmental Invitation) Health Sciences plus Museum Studies 

June 2012

Date

Duration

Training Activity
W/c 03/06/2012    
Wed 6 June 2012 9.30am - 11.30am  Windows 7 Upgrade -
Windows 7 Familiarisation  
Thu 7 June 2012  2.00pm - 4.30pm   Grant Writing (College of Science and Engineering) (SPR event)  
Fri 8 June 2012 2.30pm - 4.00pm  Windows 7 Get Ready presentation (Departmental Invitation) Estates plus Cell Physiology and Pharmacology 
W/c 11/06/2012     
Mon 11 June 2012  Appointments between 1.00pm - 5.00pm  Guided IT Learning Session
Tue 12 June 2012 9.30am - 11.30am  Windows 7 Upgrade -
Outlook 2010 Familiarisation 
Tue 12 June 2012 9.00am - 5.00pm  Statistics with R (SPR event)
Tue 12 June 2012 10.00am - 12.30pm Supervising Doctoral Candidates (SPR event)
Tue 12 June 2012  10.00am - 4.00pm 

Introduction to NLP
A Midlands Staff Development Partnership (MSDP) external event, venue Oxford Brookes University, Wheatley Campus 
Tue 12 June 2012 1.30pm - 4.30pm Writing for the Web
Tue 12 June 2012  2.00pm - 3.30pm  Blackboard is Changing Version 9.1  
Wed 13 June 2012 9.30am - 1.00pm  Information Security: Departmental Information Assurance Co-ordinator training   
Wed 13 June 2012   9.30am - 1.00pm  Planning your Website  
*Postponed Wed 13 June 2012 - Rescheduled to Wed 11 July 2012 9.45am - 1.00pm  Equalities for Departmental Equality Representatives
Wed 13 June 2012  12.30pm - 1.30pm Brown Bag Lunches for Professional and Administrative Staff: Performanance Management  
Thu 14 June 2012 9.30am - 12.30pm Manual Handling Training
Thu 14 June 2012 9.30am - 4.30pm Recruitment and Selection
Fri 15 June 2012 10.30am - 12.00pm  Windows 7 Get Ready presentation (Departmental Invitation) BDRA plus ELTU plus International Study Centre
Fri 15 June 2012  1.00pm - 4.30pm  Blackboard 9.1 for Course Administrators  
W/c 18/06/2012    
Mon 18 June 2012 9.30am - 11.30am Windows 7 Upgrade -
Windows 7 Familiarisation
Mon 18 June 2012  1.30pm - 5.00pm Querying an Access Database  
*Fully Booked - Tue 19 June 2012 9.30am - 1.00pm  Blackboard 9.1 for Course Administrators 
Tue 19 June 2012 10.00am - 12.00pm  Examining PhD Theses (SPR event)
Tue 19 June 2012 10.30am - 12.00pm  Windows 7 Get Ready presentation (Departmental Invitation) Infection, Immunity & Inflammation plus College of Arts, Humanities & Law 
*Fully Booked - Wed 20 June 2012  1.00pm - 4.30pm  Blackboard 9.1 for course administrators 
Wed 20 June 2012 2.30pm - 4.00pm  Windows 7 Get Ready presentation (Departmental Invitation) Library, Physics & Astronomy plus Geology
Thu 21 June 2012 9.15am – 1.45pm (3.15pm finish for staff involved in research) Introduction to the University of Leicester
Fri 22 June 2012 9.30am - 12.00pm 

Windows 7 Upgrade -
Windows 7 Managing Your Files and Folders  
W/c 25/06/2012     
Mon 25 June 2012  Appointments between 1.00pm - 5.00pm  Guided IT Learning Session 

Tues 26 June 2012  

 10.00am - 4.30pm

SPSS - Examining Data using Confidence Intervals and P-values (SPR event) 
Tue 26 June 2012  1.00pm - 5.00pm  Introduction to Linux  
Wed 27 June 2012 9.30am - 12.30pm Take Time to Learn: Microsoft Excel 2007
Wed 27 June 2012   1.00pm - 4.30pm  Blackboard 9.1 for Course Administrators  
Thu 28 June 2012 9.30am - 11.30am Windows 7 Upgrade -
Office 2010 What's New? (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access 2010)  
Thu 28 June 2012  9.30am - 1.00pm  Blackboard 9.1 for course administrators 
Thu 28 June 2012   1.00pm - 5.00pm   Introduction to ALICE (High performance computing)  
Thu 28 June 2012 2.30pm - 4.00pm  Windows 7 Get Ready presentation (Departmental Invitation) Criminology plus College of Medicine, Biological Sciences, Psychology Office plus Historical Studies
External event
28-29 June 2012		 From 3.30pm on 28 June until 3.30pm on 29 June 2012

'Fountains in the Sand' - a CPD event for Staff Developers
A Midlands Staff Development Partnership (MSDP) external event, venue Madingley Hall, Cambridge.  organised by University of East Anglia

July 2012

Date

Duration

Training Activity
W/c 02/07/2012    
Mon 2 July 2012  9.30am - 1.00pm  Plone - Introduction  
Tue 3 July 2012 9.30am - 12.30pm

Making the Most of Your Career - Effective career planning, CV's and application forms
Tue 3 July 2012 10.00am - 11.30am  Blackboard is Changing Version 9.1  
Tue 3 July 2012 10.00am - 4.00pm Introduction to Departmental Finance
2 Day Course:
Wed/Thursday
4 and 5 July 2012

9.00am - 5.00pm
each day

 PRINCE2 Foundation
(It is a pre-requisite that delegates must have attended Project Management course before attending PRINCE2 Foundation)
*Fully Booked - Wed 4 July 2012  9.30am - 1.00pm  Blackboard 9.1 for course administrators 
Thu 5 July 2012 9.30am - 5.00pm

Four Faces of Communication - Expanding Your Repertoire, Maximising Your Potential
A Midlands Staff Development Partnership (MSDP) external event, venue University of Wolverhampton  
Thu 5 July 2012 1.30pm - 3.30pm  Windows 7 Upgrade -
Windows 7 Familiarisation  
W/c 09/107/2012    
*Fully Booked - Mon 9 July 2012  1.00pm - 4.30pm  Blackboard 9.1 for course administrators 
Mon 9 July 2012 1.30pm - 3.30pm  Windows 7 Upgrade -
Outlook 2010 Familiarisation  
Tue 10 July 2012  9.30am - 12.00pm

Windows 7 Upgrade -
Windows 7 Managing Your Files and Folders  
3 Part Course:
Part 1: Tue 10 July 2012
Part 2: Tue 17 July 2012
Part 3: Tue 24 July 2012 		 9.30am - 12.30pm each workshop

Departmental Safety Officers Training - Parts 1, 2 and 3
Wed 11 July 2012 9.30am - 12.30pm

Radiation Safety
Wed 11 July 2012   9.45am - 1.00pm  Equalities for Departmental Equality Representatives  
Wed 11 July 2012 2.30pm - 4.00pm  Windows 7 Get Ready presentation (Departmental Invitation) Cardiovascular Sciences - LRI, RKCSB, ground floor, seminar room 1/2 
Fri 13 July 2012 Appointments between 9.30am - 1.00pm  Guided IT Learning Session 
W/c 16/07/2012    
Tue 17 July 2012 9.30am - 4.30pm  Recruitment and Selection
Wed 18 July 2012 1.30pm - 4.30pm

Appraisal Skills Workshop 
Wed 18 July 2012 2.30pm - 4.00pm

Windows 7 Get Ready presentation (Departmental Invitation) OPEN SESSION 
Thu 19 July 2012 9.30am - 11.30am  Windows 7 Upgrade -
Office 2010 What's New? (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access 2010)  
Fri 20 July 2012 10.30am - 12.00pm  Windows 7 Get Ready presentation (Departmental Invitation) Economics plus Media & Communication 
W/c 23/07/2012     
Mon 23 July 2012  Appointments between 1.00pm - 5.00pm  Guided IT Learning Session 
Tue 24 July 2012 10.30am - 12.00pm  Windows 7 Get Ready presentation (Departmental Invitation) Cardiovascular Sciences, GHH plus Technical Research Facilities (Med, Biol Sci & Psych) 
Wed 25 July 2012 9.30am - 1.00pm Blackboard 9.1 for course administrators 
W/c23/07/2012     
Fri 27 July 2012  9.30am - 12.30pm  Writing for the Web 
Fri 27 July 2012  9.30am - 4.30pm

Presenting ideas in a visually engaging way using Prezi
A Midlands Staff Development Partnership (MSDP) external event, venue Coventry 

August 2012

Date

Duration

Training Activity
W/c 30/07/2012    
Fri 3 August 2012 9.30am - 12.00pm  Blackboard 9.1 - What's New?
W/c 06/07/2012     
Wed 8 August 2012 1.30pm - 4.00pm  Blackboard 9.1 - What's New?  
Thu 9 August 2012 9.30am - 4.30pm  Recruitment and Selection 
W/c 13/08/2012     
Fri 17 August 2012  9.30am - 12.00pm  Blackboard 9.1 - What's New?  
W/c 20/08/2012     
Tues 21 August 2012  9.30am - 1.00pm  Blackboard 9.1 for course administrators 
W/c 27/08/2012     
Wed 29 August 2012  1.30pm - 4.00pm Blackboard 9.1 - What's New?  

September 2012

Date

Duration

Training Activity
W/c 10/09/2012    
Mon 3 September 2012 1.30pm - 4.00pm  Blackboard 9.1 - What's New?  
Tue 4 September 2012 9.15am - 4.30pm Moderating Online Groups (SPR event)
W/c 10/09/2012     
Tue 11 September 2012   9.30am - 4.30pm  Recruitment and Selection 
Thu 13 September 2012 1.30pm - 4.00pm Blackboard 9.1 - What's New?  
Fri 14 September 2012   10.00am - 4.00pm 

SAP: Raising and Printing Purchase Orders, Goods Receipting and Invoice Verification
W/c 17/09/2012    
Thu 20 September 2012 9.30am - 12.00pm Blackboard 9.1 - What's New?  
W/c  24/09/2012    
Tue 25 September 2012 1.30pm - 4.00pm Blackboard 9.1 - What's New?  
Wed 26 September 2012 9.30am - 1.00pm Planning Your Website
Fri 28 September 2012  12.30pm - 1.00pm Brown Bag Lunches for Professional and Administrative Staff: The Role of the Modern Academic

October 2012

Date

Duration

Training Activity
W/c 16/06/2012    
Mon 15 October 2012 9.30am - 1.00pm  Plone - Introduction  
Thu 18 October 2012 9.30am - 12.30pm Manual Handling Training

November 2012

Date

Duration

Training Activity
W/c 05/11/2012    
Thu 8 November 2012  1.30pm - 4.30pm Writing for the Web

December 2012

January 2013

Date

Duration

Training Activity
W/c 01/01/2013    

February 2013

Date

Duration

Training Activity
W/c 01/02/2013    

March 2013

Date

Duration

Training Activity
W/c 01/03/2013    

April 2013

Date

Duration

Training Activity
W/c 01/04/2013    

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