Free training and discussion groups
A programme free training events, a quarterly reading group and regular discussion groups, based on feedback from the impact culture community, co-hosted with a different member of the community each session.
Programme for 2023
Event
Type
Duration
Date
Time
To find out what’s planned for 2023, make suggestions or offer your own session, please contact Madie.
Free training: Impact culture
Date: 19 June, 2023
Time: 10:00
In this course, you will discover how you can transform your working environment and create a culture you can belong in. Whether you seek ideas that will change the world or you just want to reclaim a place in which you can think deeply, this course invites you to overcome what is preventing you doing the best work of your career. You will be able to discuss practical ideas and creative ways of thinking to re-motivate and inspire you, building on what works and adapting what doesn't, to create your own culture with your closest colleagues.
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Understand your research culture, considering how robust, ethical and action-oriented research, deep and diverse values, community and capacity enables impact
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Use diagnostic questions to identify bright spots and issues in your impact culture
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Learn from evolutionary organisations, contrasting top-down change management linked to extrinsic incentives from funders, with more bottom-up approaches that draw on your intrinsic motivations
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Design your own experiment to experiment with small, safe changes that you can evaluate and scale to do the best work of your career
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Get a free PDF and audio copy of Prof Reed's book, Impact Culture
Surgery session: Bring your impact challenges
Date: 21 August, 2023
Time: 10:00
Come along with your impact challenges and get help from Prof Mark Reed and other participants in a do-it-yourself, self-help session for anyone who needs it! Submit your questions in advance to mark.reed@fasttrackimpact.com, or just come along with challenges on the day.
Free training: The Productive Researcher - writing skills
Date: 25 September, 2023
Time: 10:00
Find out how you can become significantly more productive as a researcher in a fraction of your current working day. Rather than learning (yet more) time management techniques, you will learn new ways of thinking that will reframe your relationship with work.
The course is based on Prof Reed’s book, The Productive Researcher, in which he draws on interviews with some of the world’s highest performing researchers, the literature and his own experience to identify a small number of important insights that can transform how researchers work. The course is based on an unparalleled breadth of interdisciplinary evidence that speaks directly to researchers of all disciplines and career stages.
Key benefits:
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Leave with practical tools you can use immediately to prioritise limited time to achieve more ambitious career goals
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Gain a deeper understanding of the values that underpin your work, and the reasons why you feel time pressured
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Identify priorities that are as much about being as they are about doing, and that are stretching, motivational, authentic, relational and tailored to your unique strengths and abilities
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Turn these into an “experiment” to make practical changes that create a positive feedback loop between your priorities and your motivation, so you can become increasingly focussed and productive
Surgery session: Bring your impact challenges
Date: 30 October, 2023
Time: 10:00
Come along with your impact challenges and get help from Prof Mark Reed and other participants in a do-it-yourself, self-help session for anyone who needs it! Submit your questions in advance to mark.reed@fasttrackimpact.com, or just come along with challenges on the day.