Training and Development
The University offers many opportunities across a broad spectrum to support your personal and professional development. We work with University institutions to provide open and targeted programmes of development activities that complement activities taking place in departments and faculties and those provided by other internal and external providers.
The personal and professional development activities you undertake whilst working at Cambridge will be based around the needs identified by you and your line manager during your induction, probation and ongoing staff review process.
As a member of University staff you are also able to attend lectures and seminars in any University department or faculty.
Open programme courses
PPD courses that are open to all staff are categorised by theme:
Key: 
Face-to face-delivery 
Online course
Blended course
Leadership and management development
For existing and aspiring heads of departments through to team leaders and others with responsibility for people, projects and/or resources.
Follow the links below to find out more about available courses:
- Assertiveness in management
- Administrators' Development Programme
- Heads of Institution Programme
- ILM Level 3 Award in First Line Management
- ILM Level 5 Award in Management
- Leadership Masterclasses
- Managing and developing effective teams
- Managing staff performance
- Project Management
- Stress - A manager's responsibility
- Staff development and review for reviewers
Personal development
Programmes to support personal development - confidence building, developing your career and how to cope and more. Follow the links to find our more and to book a place:
Policies, procedures and legislation
Training events and workshops to provide staff with up to date information about and practical advice how to work with employment legislation, University policies and procedures.
Follow the links to find outmore and to book a place:
- Data protection and freedom of information: An introduction
- Data security and protection for academic staff
- Data security and protection for administrators
- Discipline and grievance
- Equality and diversity
- Recruitment and selection skills
- Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
- Specific learning disabilities: What administrators need to know
- Staff review and development for reviewees
- Staff review and development for reviewers
Presentation and communication
Whether you want to improve the way you communicate with others on a one to one basis or to learn how to give effective presentations, there is a range of support available for all staff.
For more information and to book on a coures:
- Communication skills - Introduction
- Communciation skills Advanced
- Disabled people: Offering a good face to face service
- How to create effective communication material
- Introduction to sign language
- Key skills in listening to, communicating with and supporting individuals
- Media interviews: Making the most of them
- Presentation skills: An Introduction
- Voice and presentation: One to One
- Voice and pronunciation for non native English speakers
- Voice projection: An introduction
Online Learning Centre
The Online Learning Centre gives information about online and blended courses available from a range of internal University providers.
Other provision
The range of additional courses arranged by other providers of training internal to the University can be found on the University Training Booking System.
General information
A number of courses can now be accessed either as an online or blended course.
The personal and professional development activities you undertake whilst working at Cambridge will be based around the needs identified by you and your line manager during your induction, probation and ongoing staff review process.