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The UCL Organisational Development team is pleased to offer a range of self-paced and live online training opportunities to support you in achieving your personal professional development goals.

Our courses are facilitated by expert delivery partners and are designed to provide high-quality training focused on building skills in core areas such as management and leadership, wellbeing, managing change, and building a growth mindset.

Browse our catalogue organised by theme or jump to our suggested learning journeys to build a development path that’s right for you. Simply click on the course title links to find out more and enrol.

Please note, enrolment for courses is now via LearnUpon unless otherwise stated. Instructions on how to enrol can be found on the side panel of this page.

Development opportunities by topic

Growth Mindset

Creating the Right Mindset for Your Team
11 March 2025, 2pm - 4pm
2 hour live online session

Struggling with team confidence and autonomy? This workshop provides tools to support communication and a positive mindset. Learn to identify blocks, generate practical ideas, and use Steven Covey’s Circles of Influence model to empower your team. Enhance agency, control, and trust within your team through peer-to-peer learning and interactive breakout sessions. Join us to build a more connected and appreciative team environment.

How to Develop a Growth Mindset for Success
27 February 2025, 10am - 11:30am
1 April 2025, 2:30pm - 4pm

Discover how your mindset impacts your performance in work, studies, and daily life. This interactive workshop delves into the concept of a growth mindset, contrasting it with a fixed mindset. You'll learn how to develop a growth mindset and explore ten practical strategies to shift your thinking. Reflect on the drivers that influence your mindset and understand how changing your mindset can be a game changer. Join us to "think about how you think" and unlock your potential.

Working Smarter - Creating the Right Mindset
Online self-paced course

Tools to help you have positive team conversations and develop personal strategies to control and influence things that concern you.

Mangement skills

Assertiveness: Essential Skills for Being More Assertive
3 March 2025, 10am - 11:30am
90 minute live online session

Learn tips and techniques for being more assertive and using a confident approach to develop productive working relationships. This session will help you understand the importance of assertiveness in the workplace, provide practical strategies to enhance your communication skills, and build your confidence in various professional scenarios. Enrol in Part 2 (Practising Being More Assertive) for an opportunity to put into practice the skills you will learn in this session.

Assertiveness: Practicing Being More Assertive
24 March 2025, 10am - 11:30am
90 minute live online session

This bite-sized practical session explores healthy and unhealthy assertiveness in common UCL scenarios. Building on techniques from Essential Skills for Being More Assertive, we'll recap key points and put them into practice. Through group discussions, you'll explore practical examples, practice assertiveness techniques, and reflect on applying them in your role at UCL.

Conflict: Essential Skills for Managing Conflict
10 March 2025, 10am - 11:30am
90 minute live online session

This bite-sized online session introduces practical strategies for addressing workplace conflict during stressful times. You'll learn about different types of conflict, strategies to protect your wellbeing and performance, and how to handle conflict professionally. Attendees will gain valuable insights and tools to manage conflict effectively while maintaining professionalism and wellbeing. Enrol in Part 2 (Practising Conflict Handling) for an opportunity to put into practice the skills you will learn in this session.

Conflict: Practicing Managing Conflict
31 March 2025, 10am - 11:30am
90 minute live online session

This bite-sized practical session explores various conflict scenarios you may encounter at UCL. Building on techniques from Essential Skills for Handling Conflict, we'll recap key points and put them into practice. Through group discussions, you'll explore practical examples, practice conflict handling techniques, and reflect on applying them in your role at UCL.

Facilitation: Essential Skills for Facilitation - Part 1
11 February 2025, 2:30pm - 4pm
90 minute live online session

Learn how to confidently facilitate virtual and in-person meetings by learning the key skills and qualities of a great facilitator, understanding the difference between teaching, mentoring, coaching and facilitating, and practising the art of being a great listener. Please note: enrolment for this session will be via MyLearning.

Facilitation: Practising Facilitation - Part 2
27 February 2025, 2:30pm - 4pm
90 minute live online session

Following on from Essential Skills for Facilitation, this practical workshop will explore a range of different facilitation scenarios that we would often come across when facilitating inclusive meetings in UCL and identify both good practice and not so good practice in these situations. Please note: enrolment for this session will be via MyLearning.

Listening Skills
12 March 2025, 10am - 12pm
2 hour live online session

In this session on Listening Skills, you'll explore the power of active listening, identify barriers, and learn different levels of listening. Gain practical tips and tools to enhance your listening abilities and build confidence through skills practice. The course includes peer-to-peer learning with small breakout groups, so please join from an environment where you can fully interact. By the end, you'll have a deeper understanding and improved active listening skills.

Managing Up
26 February 2025, 10am - 12pm
2 hour live online session

Strategies for having more productive outcomes with senior stakeholders where time is of the essence and differences in personalities and working preferences are at play. Please note: enrolment for this session will be via MyLearning.

Negotiating Change
12 February 2025, 2pm - 4pm
2 hour live online session

This online course will support you to enable people to engage with change more easily. Please note: enrolment for this session will be via MyLearning.

Project Management Essentials
12 March 2025, 10am - 12pm
Online self-paced course

This self-paced course is designed to build broad awareness of project management principles and practice at UCL, and is based on the UCL Project Management Framework.

Wellbeing

Building Resilience
21 March 2025, 10am - 12pm
2 hour live online session

This session provides an understanding of emotional resilience and tips for building it. Learn how emotional health and resilience are connected, how responses and thinking patterns impact resilience, and ways to enhance wellbeing and prioritise self-care. By the end, you'll understand resilience better and have a plan to improve your own. The course includes peer-to-peer learning with small breakout groups, so please join from an environment where you can fully interact.

Financial Wellbeing
25 February 2025,
90 minute live online session

Gain essential skills to manage your day-to-day finances and achieve your personal and financial goals. This course is ideal for early to mid-career professionals and covers key topics such as financial wellbeing objectives, personal budgeting, tax and national insurance, credit cards, loans, overdrafts, mortgages, and savings. Enhance your financial literacy and take control of your financial future with practical insights and strategies

How to Create Psychological Safe Spaces
19 March 2025, 10am - 12pm
2 hour live online session

Understand what influences psychological safety in meetings, teams, and groups. Learn to identify low safety indicators and practical ways to enhance workplace safety. This session covers patterns that diminish safety, benefits of safer environments, and tools to create them. You'll practice techniques and develop a personal plan for improving safety. By the end, you'll recognise poor psychological safety and have practical tools to increase it. The course includes peer-to-peer learning with small breakout groups.

Leading Wellbeing Conversations
17 March 2025, 10am - 2pm
4 hour live online session

Aimed at line managers, this half-day session provides an overview of workplace mental health and wellbeing issues. You'll learn to recognise signs when colleagues need support, promote positive wellbeing, and build resilience. The course includes practical tools, guidance for connecting with struggling colleagues, and a resource directory. By the end, you'll have greater understanding, confidence to start conversations, and knowledge of where to access further support. Participants need to provide a postal address for the course manual.

Managing Your Own Self-Care and Wellbeing
Online self-paced course
Techniques, tools and tips that may have a positive impact on your mental wellbeing.

Mental Health Awareness
5 March 2025, 10am - 12pm
26 March 2025, 2pm - 4pm

2 hour live online session
This session covers understanding mental health, recognizing signs of poor mental health, and providing support for anxiety and depression. By the end, you'll have a better grasp of what mental health means, key signs and symptoms to watch for, and how to support others. The course includes peer-to-peer learning with small breakout groups, so please join from an environment where you can fully interact. Gain awareness and practical tools to support mental health effectively.

Mental Health Training for Managers
Online self-paced course
This course is designed to equip managers with the essential knowledge and tools needed to support the mental health and wellbeing of their teams.

Stress Awareness
3 April 2025, 10am - 12pm
2 hour live online session

This Stress Awareness session covers the causes and signs of stress, tips to manage stress levels, and how to cope with stress at work. By the end, you'll understand the signs and symptoms of stress, its impact on mind and body, and ways to reduce stress and support others. The course includes peer-to-peer learning with small breakout groups, so please join from an environment where you can fully interact.

Supporting Others
Online self-paced course
How do we help others? Explore the common themes to consider when supporting others with their wellbeing in the workplace.

Wellbeing Conversations: Guidance for Managers
Online self-paced course
Managing people requires a variety of skills. Explore the legal side of mental wellbeing and best practice approaches to starting conversations.

Working smarter

Working Smarter Series (self-paced)
Practical tools that can make a difference to the way you work. Auto enrol for all of the Working Smarter Series or select individual modules from the list below: 

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