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Beginning the New Year as we mean to go on
News 5 FebruaryA message from the Executive Dean of Theology and Philosophy, Professor Richard Colledge: A new year provides opportunities to nurture what has been planted, and bring buds to bloom.
Our next Supervise for Success program will be held during November and supervisors are encouraged to enroll now, as places are limited.
This program focuses on your role as a leader to support, engage and motivate your team. Learn new techniques in coaching, difficult conversations, interviewing skills and developing your talent. Each of these learning programs is facilitated by subject matter experts and aligned with the ACU Capability and Development Framework.
See the Supervise for Success program workshops for November below. Places are limited, so don’t delay.
This program will examine work, health and safety in the ACU context, what your role is in supporting a safety culture, and what supports are available to help you in managing the safety and wellbeing of your team.
Safety in Practice - Tuesday 9 November 1.30-3.30pm (AEDT)
Develop a coaching mindset and practice a structured process to accelerate development by bringing out the best in others. Coaching support is offered post-course.
Coaching Essentials: Thursday 11 November 9.30am-5pm (AEDT)
With two sessions to choose from, learn how to conduct interviews that are objective, fair, and provide the candidate the opportunity to shine. Learn how to build rapport, manage an interview, and ask pertinent questions to gather data, indicative of future on-the-job success.
The Art of Behavioural Interviewing: Monday 15 November Session 1 - 9am-12.30pm (AEDT)
The Art of Behavioural Interviewing: Monday 15 November Session 2 - 1.30-5pm (AEDT)
Supervisors are responsible for creating and maintaining a psychologically safe workplace. This two half-day program has been specifically created to equip supervisors with the necessary tools and skills to be able to respond to different scenarios impacting staff wellbeing in the workplace in a compassionate and fitting way.
Mental Health Masterclass: Tuesday 16 and Thursday 18 November 10am-1.30pm (AEDT)
The program covers the typical types of Flexible Work Arrangements at ACU, outlining who can make a request, how a staff member can submit a request, how supervisors need to consider the request, and a framework for decision-making.
Flexible Work Arrangements: Tuesday 23 November 2-3.30pm (AEDT)
This program will explore approaches to appointments and measure a successful appointment.
Rethinking Recruitment and Appointment Success: Thursday 25 November 10am-12pm (AEDT)
This program focuses on how to have effective conversations when identifying and building individual capabilities with your team. It will include how to identify and prioritise capabilities to focus on, coaching questions to use during the conversation, identifying and maximising learning opportunities, and techniques to drive a self-directed learning mindset for individuals in your team.
Capability and Conversations: Thursday 25 November 2-3pm (AEDT)
A message from the Executive Dean of Theology and Philosophy, Professor Richard Colledge: A new year provides opportunities to nurture what has been planted, and bring buds to bloom.
Congratulations to ACU Honorary Professor David Runia who was named a Member of the Order of Australia in this year’s Australia Day honours.
During the first week of February every year we celebrate World Interfaith Harmony Week.
The Centre for Education and Innovation (CEI) is offering six one-hour professional development sessions to prepare academics for the start of Semester 1. Register for the webinars here.
The library has expanded its support for affordable learning.
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Council has been established to guide ACU’s adoption of AI in its teaching, research and engagement, and to influence good practice with university partners and stakeh...
ACU Co-Lab has proudly secured its inaugural NSW TechVoucher grant. This grant will support a cutting-edge study led by ACU researchers in partnership with Peak Medical Pty Ltd.
The Student Experience team invites all members of staff to welcome new students to their campus and into the ACU community at the start of semester one 2025.
We’d love to hear from you. Learn how to submit a Staff Bulletin story, as well as some changes to our Staff Communications Policy.
A message from Vice President Fr Anthony Casamento csma: January offers us a fresh start and the hope of a brighter future.
The Office of the Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Director, Campus Leadership, is seeking expressions of interest for male staff members, both professional and academic, to be on the staff panel fo...
Lock in your professional development for the 2025 year.
Changes to the Academic Regulations were approved by Academic Board and take effect in 2025.
A new Authority to Act Policy and Authority to Act Procedure were approved by Academic Board and take effect in 2025.
Congratulations to Professor Bryan Turner from ACU’s Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences who celebrates his 80th birthday this month.
ACU will move to the new EBSCOhost user interface on 4 February 2025. Find out what you need to do to prepare.
Please note the digests from Academic Board meetings 06/2024 held on 14 November 2024 and via circular resolution from 15-19 November 2024.
The 2025 Academic Timeline interactions and focus zones are now available to help prioritise the planning and delivery of learning and teaching. Sync the focus zones to your Outlook calendar now.
The 2024 Showcase of Teaching and Learning brought staff and students together to share innovations and collaborations from across the university. An online edition will be hosted in early 2025.
It has been a big year, and we understand that the festive season can be a different experience for each of us. Access a new resource from our employee assistance program, designed to help you prepare...
Visit Service Central to access Corporate Services.