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Lynne Burns Masterclass
The Department of Work, Employment and Organisation was honoured to welcome back alumna Lynne Burns for the latest of its ‘People Management Masterclass’ series on March 18. Lynne is Global Head of Talent and Member of the Group HR Executive Committee for HSBC, the largest Europe-based bank, with approximately US$3 trillion in assets, employing more than 220,000 people worldwide.
The Department's Masterclasses are designed to help Masters in HRM and MBA students to come together and learn from world leading people managers, and we were happy to bring together more than sixty of our students (and members of the HR community) to hear from Lynne. Lynne’s keynote focused on some of the key challenges facing multinational businesses, from managing the risks and opportunities of AI to rapidly reskilling the workforce to responding to demographic change. She also shared insights from her own HR journey, since graduating with an HRM (then Industrial Relations) degree from Strathclyde Business School. Lynn’s advice – on the need to develop a broad range of people management skill and develop expertise in your organisation’s business model – was hugely helpful for our students who aspire to follow in her footsteps to become a senior people executive.
The event received excellent feedback from the students in attendance. Future Strathclyde Business School People Management Masterclasses are posted on the Department’s LinkedIn page. Further information about postgraduate study in people management at Strathclyde is available here:
Postgraduate study in the Department of Work, Employment & Organisation | University of Strathclyde
New SEED pilot programme
Strathclyde Executive Education and Development welcomed representatives from a variety of Moore Global member firms to the Business School on February 27 and 28. Moore Global is a global accountancy, advisory and consulting network of independent firms with its headquarters in London.
The group were taking part in the pilot ‘Moore Catalyst’ programme, designed to explore essential leadership skills with a focus on leading with impact, influencing and empowering teams while enhancing the delegates’ own professional competency.
The two-day programme included brilliant contributions from the business school’s own Joanna Butler, Colin Lindsay and Mary Galbraith. Feedback from delegates after course completion was very positive and included comments such as: “Well-structured course that enabled networking and collaboration of experiences and ideas” and “Delighted to have been given the opportunity to attend this programme and looking forward to being a pioneer for future cohorts”.
SEED update
It has been a busy couple of months for SEED with a number of programmes and events taking place.
On February 26 and 27, “SPACE for SMEs: Growing the Space Economy Together” welcomed contributors from University College Dublin, West of Scotland Space Cluster, Glasgow City Innovation Venture Studio, Strathclyde, and SMEs who have used space to innovate. This was a two day event delivered at TIC, with the first day aimed at non-space SMEs and the second day designed for the space clusters. SMEs from outwith the space sector discussed how they have used space to innovate. Presentations included looking at how SMEs could use space data and sorting hype from reality in terms of space innovation.
SEED welcomed new participants for both the Help to Grow: Management and Growth Advantage Programme (GAP) on February 26 and 27 respectively. This was Help to Grow’s 17th cohort and cohort eight for GAP.
There has been a bit of a ‘gap’ for GAP but it’s now been successfully launched again with an exciting few months ahead for cohort eight. During their first two-day workshop, they took part in Market Advantage sessions which involved James England of BlueSky Experiences Ltd and SBS academic Dr Aylin Ates.
As for Help to Grow, cohort 18 will graduate later this month, and then cohort 19 will run on Wednesdays from April 23, 2025. Following cohort 17's conclusion in February, we have now supported over 280 participants to complete Help to Grow: Management at Strathclyde Business School. With only two weeks remaining of cohort 18, we'll soon be celebrating graduate numbers in the 300s. Applications have now opened for the April intake: https://smallbusinesscharter.org/h2gmcourse/strathclyde-19
On March 5, SEED had a one-day Scalable and Sustainable Sales Workshop delivered by the Just Williams Sales Academy. Jessica Williams covered multiple learning objectives to 16 alumni from our SME growth programmes.
Spring graduation at The Barony
Spring graduation took place on March 18 when our latest cohort of graduates took to the stage at The Barony Hall to celebrate their achievements.
Students from across the business school gathered together with family, friends and staff to be capped on stage and receive their award.
This graduation was specifically arranged for students who began their studies during our January intakes and was introduced last year to allow the January cohort to celebrate with their classmates.
Congratulations to all who graduated, who are now part of a worldwide community of Strathclyde graduates!
Academic discusses AI on BBC Radio Scotland
On February 7, Dr Kendra Briken was invited to comment on a report launched by the Institute for Public Policy Research claiming that ‘Up to 8 million UK jobs at risk from AI unless government acts’ on the BBC Radio Scotland ‘Good Morning Scotland’ show.
(Timestamp 1:49 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0027lwx) Dr Briken was further invited on February 9 to discuss the societal impacts and challenges for future development of AI based tools with Dr Abeba Birhane, named as one of the 100 most influential persons in AI 2023 by TIME magazine, on the BBC Radio Scotland ‘The Sunday Morning Show’. (Timestamp 1:40-2:00 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0027sz5) ).