Awaydays
The Staff Development Office is ready to help departments or teams to set up and run awaydays, and can sometimes offer some financial support towards the day and/or a facilitator (if needed). You can often achieve much more by going off-site to a new environment than you can by meeting in usual situations. Additionally you may decide that having an impartial outsider will also may the day work better, providing a safe, supportive and creative environment. However, you will need to show that there will be added value in holding your event off site i.e. it cannot be just a longer than usual departmental meeting.
You might be interested in having an awayday for one of the following reasons :
- to get to know each other better
- to agree team vision, roles and responsibilities, possibly related to institutional goals
- to explore ways of working together better
- to explore ways of being more creative or innovative
- to review or plan a project / change
- to discuss the things you can do more of, or change, to deliver a better merged service
Running An Awayday
If you are planning to organise an awayday for your team or department, you might find the following checklist useful.
Please contact Serena Yeo (sy3@soas.ac.uk) tel: 4128 to discuss your event.
