For all colleagues
Development and support
The following development and support opportunities are available for all colleagues:
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 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.
LBU Leader Introductory Sessions
The LBU Leader articulates what good leadership looks like and invites us all to think about how we contribute to creating a collaborative and inclusive leadership culture.
In this introductory session we will explore:-
- How every one of us contributes to leadership at LBU
- The behaviours we can develop to enhance our impact and capability
- How best to lead ourselves, others and advance our agenda
- The development actions we can take to achieve our ambitions going forward.
Coffee Mentoring
As part of the LBU Leader we want to facilitate cross-institutional learning and support all colleagues in their career ambitions.
Our pilot Coffee Mentoring scheme provided an opportunity for any colleague to book in a one-off mentoring conversation with a senior leader. Please note, all the conversations as part of our pilot have now been scheduled. We will now complete the pilot and evaluate the scheme before considering next steps.
In the meantime, you can register your interest in a future Coffee Mentoring conversation by completing our short form.
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.
Additional support For all managers
The following support is available for colleagues who manage others:
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.
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.
Leaders Connect Network Events
Each of our regular Leaders Connect events focus on a particular topic. They include a series of short case studies from LBU Leaders, sharing their reflections on the topic and details of local initiatives. The events are also an important networking opportunity, giving colleagues the chance to share ideas, challenge thinking and learn from each other's experiences.
Colleagues from the target audience for this particular Leaders Connect event will be invited via email.
