Martin Udwin, Organisational Development Manager at Cardiff University, said this of the programme which the Leadership Foundation designed and still runs at Cardiff:
“Research staff from Cardiff University were amongst the first to attend the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education’s excellent two day training open programme ‘Research Team Leadership’ (RTL) and recommended it highly. Based on this feedback we, in Human Resources, decided to look into ways to incorporate RTL into our staff development programme. We wanted, most importantly, to find ways to add value to what was learnt on training, to support research team leaders to apply what they had learnt, and help them engage with others across the university.
Accordingly, we negotiated with the Leadership Foundation to run a module in Cardiff, based on RTL within our broader programme, launched in 2007, called ‘Leadership & Management Development Programme for Research Team Leaders’. This includes additional training activities and sustained support for participants.
So far the response has been excellent. By the end of the programme Cardiff research team leaders have improved their confidence and skills, widened their network of contacts and understood both the university’s procedures and its strategic goals better. This programme is now a regular event and the pool of trained, competent and motivated research team leaders is now beginning to grow.”