Housing Organisations
Housing organisations are a dynamic and rapidly evolving sector where traditional processes are being replaced by new ones, driven by external factors or internal recognition of shifts in priority and focus.
There are programmes and initiatives available at the University of Derby that contain key elements vital to Housing organisations. We can bring skills and experience to support the transition through challenging change and development.
» Business Review
What stage is your business at in relation to its strategic priorities and what needs to be done?
» Diagnostic Profiling
What stage are your managers at in their development? How do they know and how do you know?
» Leadership Challenges and Opportunities
- Ensure your leadership team have all the necessary skills
- Create a meaningful succession plan
- Develop professional mentors and selected individuals into coaches to enhance human capital
» Commercialisation and Marketing
- Have you got a strategic marketing plan that cascades from your business plan?
- What are your products?
- What is your market?
- Who is your competition?
» Business Development
Business development and selling effectively are skills that we can enable you to acquire. These skills are necessary as you have a portfolio of products and services existing in a competitive market. These result in two needs:
- To compete effectively against competitors
- To open and develop opportunities for your extra services.
» Change Management
How to manage change effectively for your staff, your structure and your strategy.
» Partnership Working
- Who do you need to work with, at what level and towards what objectives?
- Who should you be working with and how do you create those relationships?
- Integrate processes and relationships to achieve clear direction and measurable results
- Reduce costs and enhance outcomes.
» Dealing with new EU Working Directives
How will you deal with changing work patterns such as home-working and parental leave, and do your know your legal responsibilities?
» Equality and Diversity
Do your staff understand cultural diversity and its implications and can they deal with customers and co-workers appropriately?
» Environmental Responsibilities
Will improving your business cost the earth? Learn from a Centre of Excellence for Global Environmental Sustainability how to carry out environmental audits, create a meaningful environmental policy and manage your organisation.
» Corporate Social Responsibility
Managing limited resources, cost reduction, effective procurement, influencing other businesses and working with public organisations.
» Governance
There are many challenges in ensuring effective governance. A board member needs to be an effective team player with specific skills, competencies and knowledge.
» Rapid E-learning
It is not always possible to release staff for extended time to train, it is sometimes vital that they learn things quickly and easily. It is sometimes also vital that they engage in assessment using e-learning so that you can prove that they have understood what they are learning.
Rapid e-learning using the Innovation 4 Learning team at the University of Derby has already won the tender from Learndirect for their e-learning platform. Many commercial and public organisations have used e-learning for:
- Induction
- Health and safety
- Diversity
- Compliance
- Procurement
» Learning Through Work
The LTW initiative enables employees to achieve accredited training while doing their day jobs. LTW works by uniquely combining prior work experience and qualifications so that individuals and teams can be offered customised development programmes. These are designed to match the needs of your organisation and are then merged with the aspirations of the individual. Your organisation will directly benefit and the employee will gain an accredited learning outcome.
For further information about our offer to Housing Organisations, please contact Robin Pratt by emailing r.pratt@derby.ac.uk or calling 01332 591078.
Alternatively, please register your interest here.
