For all colleagues
Development and support
The following development and support opportunities are available to colleagues, connected to the LBU Leader:
Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
The LBU Leader
Leadership at LBU takes many forms. We all have personal leadership responsibilities within our daily work, we may have diverse leadership responsibilities within our teams and some of us have formalised leadership roles too.
The LBU Leader describes the behavioural indicators and qualities, identified through our research, as being associated with effective leadership at our university.
The Behavioural Indicators
The behavioural indicators have been aligned to our values which give us clarity, consistency, and a common purpose. They offer a shared and renewed understanding of how all of us can demonstrate a particular form of leadership in everything we do.
LBU leaders will...
- Communicate respectfully to others and genuinely encourage diverse voices
- Recognise, understand, and remove barriers that inhibit the inclusion of others
- Celebrate and learn more about the diversity of our community
- Be open and vulnerable to show they do not have all the answers
- Ensure teams foster a culture of shared accountability and collective sense of purpose
- Hold all teams equal and encourage cross team, and cross university, collaboration
- Make time to recognise and celebrate team success and team members’ contributions
- Actively encourage a sense of team connection and clear communications
- Start from clear principles and do the right thing rather than the easy thing
- Be consistent in actions and behaviour creating a shared sense of openness and trust
- Own decisions that are taken and clearly explain why those decisions were made
- Be challenging and speak up when people are not working to the values
- Take time to reflect and recognise when work needs to adapt to the reality of the situation
- Step in when a proportionate amount of work has been done and it is time to move on
- Streamline systems and seek to make the complex simple
- Take a balanced view and always consider the wider implications
- Challenge the status quo to create new and better ways of doing the things that matter
- Create opportunities to develop and inspire others to achieve their best
- Confidently own the vision and communicate it with clarity and enthusiasm
- Promote high expectations and set stretching goals
- Commit to decisions and the delivery of what has been agreed
- Focus time and resources on outcomes and moving priorities forward
- Recognise when it is time to consult and when it is time to act
- Create a culture that will challenge, review, and improve norms of practice
Leadership Qualities
The leadership qualities identified are aligned to three main areas of leadership activity and aim to encourage all colleagues to think about how they lead and how we can all make a contribution to achieving collective goals.
- Energy and confidence to act
- Open minded, flexible and curious to learn
- Self-aware and resilient
- Clarity of personal vision and principles
- Values wellbeing and role models work-life balance
- Trusts and is trusted
- Sets clear boundaries
- Supports others to deliver and to achieve their potential
- Says how each person contributes to the agenda
- Door opener and connects people
- Give people space to take risks and innovate (not rules led)
- Is visible and role models the values
- Horizon scanning, looking up and out
- Line of connectivity – links Strategy, Operations and Feedback
- Intentional in creating culture
- Sees the whole organisation and breaks down silos
- Creates simplicity from complexity
LBU Leader Recording
Listen to this short recording, with Cate Querin and Chris Pickard from the People and OD Team, as Chris shares details of a recent project he led on, as an example of leading the agenda.
Feedback from a recent mentoring mentee - "I just wanted to say a huge 'thankyou' for arranging my mentoring meeting. It was everything I hoped it would be and more! ...it is such a fantastic initiative."Â
LBU Leader Self Assessment Tool
The self-assessment tool aims to help you consider how often you exhibit the LBU Leader behaviours at work and to inform your development planning.
Managers' Essentials
Our Managers’ Essentials webpage signposts a range of information that we hope will provide you with a valuable resource, whether you are a new or existing manager here at Leeds Beckett University.
MyDevelopment
MyDevelopment, our university’s online learning system, includes a variety of leadership courses. Many of the courses connect to our LBU Values and associated behavioural indicators.
Visit MyDevelopment to view our course catalogue.
Coaching and Mentoring
One to one support to help develop leadership capabilities through structured conversations with a qualified coach or experienced mentor.
lbu leader 360 FEEDBACK
Our 360 feedback tool will provide you with insights into your leadership and management approach. Completing a 360 can give you an in-depth understanding of how others perceive your impact and compares this to your own perceptions. You'll receive a personalised report which refers to the LBU Leader behaviours and qualities. The follow up activity aims to lead you to positive action, the right support and ultimately move you forward with your development goals and career aspirations.
New Manager Support
New managers can contact the POD Team to arrange an initial conversation as part of our personalised approach to support the development of colleagues who are new to managing at LBU.
New managers can also request to be matched with an experienced New Manager Mentor from our internal network.
Aspiring Leaders
The Aspiring Leaders programme is aimed at colleagues looking to learn more about management and leadership and to explore the differences between the two. It runs over 8 sessions and contains 5 face to face sessions and 3 sessions delivered online. As part of a cohort with people from all areas of the university, colleagues are given the opportunity to participate in their own personal psychometric profiling with an accredited MBTI facilitator, as well as exploring experiential learning opportunities through reflective activities and team discussions. Wherever you are on your pathway to leadership, this programme is designed to motivate, inspire and reflect on what makes an effective manager and a great leader.
