Management Essentials: Sustainability: The Role of the Manager

Course Code
50131153

Course has already taken place

Provider
OD&PL

Tutor(s):
Claire Bastin

Suitability
This course is suitable for all academic, professional and support staff
with management and/or leadership roles across the University. This
course will be essential for managers who are involved in delivering the
University vision and strategic aims, and therefore need to know how to
implement elements of the University’s Sustainability Strategy as
relevant to their own roles.

If this date is full, then please register on our waiting list by
emailing your details to leadership@leeds.ac.uk.

Date(s)
Thursday, June 22, 2017, 13:30 to 16:30

Max Places:
12

Description
Pre-session requirements/links to online resources:
Delegates will be expected to be broadly familiar with the University’s
Sustainability Strategy prior to attending the course so that
discussions can be focused around role implications, actions and
management behaviours. Therefore prior to attending the course,
delegates should:

• Complete the Sustainability in Practice online module (available
via Minerva)
• Read the Sustainability Strategy
(http://sustainability.leeds.ac.uk/sustainability-strategy/)
• Read the University’s 7 principles for Climate Action
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/info/130582/values_and_responsibility/726/the_cli
mate_crisis_our_principles_for_action

If delegates wish to do further reading on some of the University’s
latest initiatives, case studies and stories, they could access the
latest Sustainability report (although this is not essential reading)
https://sustainability.leeds.ac.uk/annual-progress/

Overall aim of course:

To assist leaders and managers in their development of a good knowledge
and understanding of sustainability and why it’s important to the
University of Leeds, the University’s Sustainability approach, strategy,
commitments and core programmes, and implications for their own roles
and work areas.

Deliverables:

Main topics covered will be:

• The big picture – what is it and why do we care about
sustainability
• Working towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
• University of Leeds commitments
• Sustainability Strategy
• 7 principles of Climate Action
• Plastics
• The University of Leeds vision and The Leeds Way
• What this means in practice – core sustainability activities,
programmes and behaviours
• Covered throughout the course - The role of managers and leaders

The session is designed to be interactive and activity/facilitated
discussion based, with limited PowerPoint slides. Detailed PowerPoints
and links to resources will be available following the course.

Outcomes:
By the end of the session delegates should:

• Understand what sustainability is and why it is important for the
University.
• Know about the University’s Sustainability Strategy, challenges
and commitments and our innovative approaches to embedding
sustainability.
• Know about a variety of key sustainability programmes and
initiatives that seek to engage and embed sustainability throughout the
institution.
• Be clear on how to access resources to support embedding
sustainability.
• Be equipped with the skills and knowledge to identify
sustainability issues and positive about how to address these issues.
• Understand the implications for their management/leadership roles
and behaviours and how these fit with wider University initiatives.
• Know who to speak to about any ongoing issues they might have
around sustainability.

Tutor:
Claire Bastin first joined the University in 2008 in a teaching and
researching role in the Sustainability Research Institute. She moved to
the Sustainability Service as Sustainability Manager in October 2014 to
2017 where she managed projects under the Being a Positive Partner in
Society and Knowledge and Capacity Building strategic themes. She
currently works as a freelance sustainability consultant and lecturer in
Sustainability and Business.

Prior to joining the University Claire had a wide ranging career in
training & development and change management, including developing and
rolling out IT, Corporate Social Responsibility and sustainability
programmes in public (e.g. Royal Mail, British Waterways, CWDC), private
(e.g. KPMG, COLT Telecom) and third sector organisations (e.g. The Big
Life Company).

Related courses (optional):

All other Management Essentials Workshops including:

• Managing Individual Performance
• Recruitment: Practical Interviewing Skills
• Work, Wellbeing and Health: The Role of the Manager
• Health & Safety: The Role of the Manager
• SRDS: Reviewer Training
• Equality and Inclusion: The Role of the Manager
• Introduction to Coaching for Managers