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Leader and Manager Essentials: Being a Leader and Manager at Sussex - Introduction
All staff (Academic and Professional Services) with or taking on management/leadership responsibilities. This workshop may also provide a useful refresher for more experienced managers.
Being a new manager and leader involves taking on fresh responsibilities and embracing a different mindset. As a manager, you transition from a colleague who contributes to team's work to someone who delivers results through others. This workshop will support new or aspiring managers to recognise the difference between leadership and management, give them an opportunity to reflect on their own leadership/management style and identify areas they might want to develop or build on.
Please note, you will be asked to complete 'Working Styles' self-assessment and read through the Sussex Leader and Manager Competency Framework in advance of this workshop. Circa 30 min of your time in total.
To help colleagues to transition from a non-management role to becoming a people manager by raising awareness of the mindset shift required, leadership styles and core practices to being an effective manager and a leader at Sussex.
• Describe what it means to be a leader and manager for you and at Sussex
• Identify expectations for leaders and managers at Sussex
• Recognise difference between leading and managing; your priorities as a leader; how and when to do both
• Explore some leadership and management styles and start shaping your own style
• Consider the different working styles in teams and the need to adapt your own to influence, engage with and deliver results through others.
Organisational Development will email further details the day before the event.
Please let us know as soon as possible if you have any accessibility requirements regarding this staff development activity (e.g., hearing/visual impairment) so that we can do our very best to accommodate your needs.
All managers are encouraged to enable staff to attend University events in work time, where business needs allow, as learning and development to further all staff contributions in supporting to achieve our goals. Please support to share this event with your teams and networks.
We require a minimum number of attendees on our workshops to make them viable. If we are ever unable to run a workshop due to low numbers, you will be contacted 48 hours before the workshop to inform you.
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By: Organisational Development
Last updated: Tuesday, 9 September 2025
For any wellbeing-related queries, please contact:
Wendy Carey
Staff Wellbeing Manager
Organisational Development, Culture and Wellbeing
Human Resources
w.carey@sussex.ac.uk
