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Leadership and management

Explore a curated selection of courses designed to enhance your strategic thinking, decision-making, and communication abilities. Whether you're a seasoned leader or aspiring to climb the management ladder, these courses offer actionable insights and real-world strategies to elevate your skills and empower your team.

Mandatory training for managers

The University uses e-Learning platform, , to deliver essential training to staff. You should be able to login using your Sussex username (eg. ab123@sussex) and password.

Unconscious Bias

This training is mandatory for Grades 7 and above. This short course aims to increase awareness of unconscious bias and how it impacts people with protected characteristics. Complete the

Recruitment and Selection

We must ensure that we recruit equitably and within the law. All staff involved in recruitment are required to complete this course within one month of employment start date, or upon taking on recruitment responsibilities. Complete the .

The Manager's Toolkit

Develop your skills and knowledge with our curated collection of workshops, online learning, guidance, and resources on The Manager's Toolkit.

The toolkit is for all managers - whether you are in your first management role or you are an experienced manager, there is something there for you.

Leadership and management courses on Learnupon

In addition to the mandatory training for staff, you can find a broad range of courses in the LearnUpon catalog and self-enrol on anything that looks of interest or useful to you. These courses typically take less than an hour to complete and can be accessed at a time and place to suit you.

Managing teams

Learn how to set goals, delegate, manage performance, and develop both your team and the individuals on it. Complete the

Inclusive leadership

This course gives insights from pioneers in the field of inclusive leadership, combined with original drama demonstrating inclusive leadership in action and tools for developing inclusive leadership skills at all levels of your organisation. Complete the

Building trust

Designed with a particular focus on new leaders but suitable for all staff, this course looks at how trust develops, its importance in working relationships and what we can do to improve our own ability to build and maintain it. Complete the

Influencing people

This course looks at why we might need to influence others in the workplace, sets out a range of different influencing behaviours and strategies and shows how we can improve our own ability to influence those around us. Complete the

Managing remote workers

This course looks at the benefits and challenges of remote working and provides advice for leaders and managers on how to ensure that their home workers remain connected, engaged and productive. Complete the

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Recommended Linkedin Learning courses

All Sussex staff have free access to more than 16,000 courses on LinkedIn Learning. You should be able to login using your Sussex username (eg. ab123@sussex) and password. For more information on how to get started, visit the ITS LinkedInLearning webpage.

Leadership foundations: Styles and models

This course offers a frame of reference for what leadership is, how it is practiced, and the most prevalent styles and approaches, to help you become the leader you want to be. Professor Alexander Lyon covers styles of authority, from autocratic to laissez-faire; approaches to action and communication; and models of responsibility, including servant leadership. He also explains why you should prioritise the qualities that can have the biggest impact on your success as a leader: authenticity, purpose, and empathy.

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Leading your team through change

Great leaders help their organisation overcome challenges and change course. But change is hard, and anyone managing a team needs a proven playbook to help them rally their employees as they acclimate to new ideas and initiatives. In this course, Mike Derezin highlights frameworks and strategies he employed as a VP at LinkedIn for guiding teams through actionable change.

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How to effectively deliver criticism

Aimee Bateman, founder of Careercake, shows you how to deliver constructive feedback to your colleagues, build rapport, and, most importantly, ensure criticism is well received. She provides you with tips and tricks to conduct meetings, communicate the problem, and leave a conversation with a productive outcome.

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How to support your employees' wellbeing

Managers face sometimes-daunting tasks. When your employees are struggling with burnout, stress, work-life imbalance, and other life challenges that may impact their performance and productivity, how can you support them? In this course, UK-based instructor Amy Brann provides specific tools based on brain science to help you be a source of strength and support for your employees. She discusses your role in your employees’ well-being and how you can positively impact your employees’ experience at work.

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Become a trauma-informed leader

So much of your success as a leader depends on your ability to learn from personal trials, errors, and resolved or unresolved trauma. Your resilience in the wake of a challenge influences your leadership style and how you respond to stress and pain points in the workplace. In this course, instructor Dawn Emerick shows you how to identify the three E’s of trauma, respond to trauma without causing secondary or vicarious trauma, and create a space of emotional safety for the whole team.

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Managing misconduct in the workplace

Confronting misconduct in the workplace is challenging enough. Ensuring that the process for managing misconduct and disciplinary actions adheres to CIPD guidelines and UK employment law adds another level of complexity. In this course, instructor Andrea Vogel equips HR professionals with the skills they need to support line managers and their organization in addressing misconduct in a non-emotional, fair, and objective fashion.

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Creating psychological safety for diverse teams

Today's workforce comprises multiple generations, cultures, and ways of working. By creating a culture of psychological safety—in which team members feel comfortable taking risks—you can lead these diverse teams to greater success. Get strategies for communicating with people who think differently than you, managing across cultures, and helping your direct reports form habits that actually stick. Plus, learn how to find balance among the skill sets in your organisation by embracing the unique talents that each person brings to the team.

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Delegating tasks

These days, we're all overwhelmed. We can't make more time and our professional obligations aren't going away. The only answer is delegation. Delegation is key for managers as you ascend in your organisation. But even if you're just starting out and don't have any direct reports, there will be times you'll need to delegate to colleagues, which can feel awkward. Learn the right way to get help and still maintain your high-quality standards. Dorie Clark explains how to build the right mindset to delegate work without micromanaging it.

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Leveraging virtual and hybrid teams for improved effectiveness

In the fast-paced world of remote work, traditional practices won't lead to success. Teams—whether fully virtual or hybrid (remote and on location) are being reinvented—and the good news is physical distance doesn't mean lower performance. Discover how to recontract and reboot your teams in our new world of remote work. Learn how to help virtual teams connect emotionally and mentally, as well as feel empowered to share their experiences and perspectives. Plus, get tips for restoring your team's energy through recognition and shared goal achievement, boosting your team's agility, and more.

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Contact and advice

Organisational Development
Sussex House SH-230

od@sussex.ac.uk
01273 075533 (ext 5533)

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