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Getting Sustainability into
Staff Development
Welcome
Nic Malcomson – Living Well Within One World
Elizabeth May – Swansea Metropolitan University
About us
• Who we are
• Why we are here
What you can expect
• Workshop style
• General view – specific strategies • Training
• Benefits
• Empowerment exercise
• Feedback please
• Finish 3:55 p.m.
Source – Layard LSE Lectures 2003
Let‘s hear from you...
• Two things grateful for today?
• Who are you? Department?
• Why are you here?
• Why is it important?
• Share with your neighbour/the group
Personal views from LSE
Multi-level strategy:case study LSE
• LSE Environmental Policy
• Living Well training
• Roles offered
• Staff Development Day Street Market
• Acknowledgements and awards
• Listening, requests, further provision
Multi-level strategy
Ideas and Resources
Communication exercise
• Promote getting sustainability into staff development to your neighbour
• Elicit
• Top three key objectives of their job
• Ask…and if you achieve that what will that mean to you…repeat 2 times
• Give them two benefits of getting sustainability into staff development in their own terms
Sustainability Training:Living Well
• Information
• Psychology
• Practice
• Repetition
• Connecting
Previous results
• 29 participants• Overall satisfaction rating: 88%
September 2006
March 2007• 7 participants• Overall satisfaction rating: 88%
• See www.livingwellwow.com for detailsData from feedback summaries provided by LSE staff
Exercise: beliefs
• Learned helplessness, learned optimism
• Permanence vs temporary
• Pervasiveness vs specific
• Personal
Source – Seligman (2002)
Training – what works
IDEAS
Benefits
Benefits
Benefits
• Staff
• Departments: SDU, SDU, other
• Organisation
• Wider Community
• World
Exercise
• Future pace benefits of getting sustainability into staff development
• What actions possible from new belief
• Schedule action with neighbour
Thank you
and
feedback please!
Exercise: beliefs
• Given this new belief, what specific actions can you now commit to take.
• Write it in your diary.
Source – Seligman (2002)
Why psychology?
• Resourceful states lead to resourceful solutions
• Happiness, health and response to warnings
•Happiness and hardship
Positive Psychology Findings
Source – Seligman (2002)