Explore our training sessions designed to equip you with the skills, confidence, and tools to lead, campaign, and thrive as a student officer✨
🎯Creating Positive Change: Campaigning 101 to Expert in One Day
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Explain the core principles of impactful student-led campaigning, including power mapping and strategy design
- Identify the difference between awareness-raising, influencing, and organising tactics
- Develop a campaign plan with clear objectives, messaging, stakeholders, and timelines
- Analyse risks and opportunities to maximise influence within the SU and wider institution
- Reflect on previous SU campaigns to draw lessons and avoid common pitfalls
- This training showcases our tried and tested LUCIE campaigning model
- We also do a residential model for this training that goes into depth for officers and staff about how our LUCIE model can operationally work in creating positive change for your students. (email hey@alkhemy.org.uk to discuss a bespoke package)
☕#SabbCare: Being a Sabb and Looking After Yourself
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Recognise the unique emotional and professional demands of being an elected officer
- Apply practical tools for boundary-setting, managing energy, and avoiding burnout
- Explore techniques for self-compassion, identity maintenance, and peer support
- Identify internal and external support structures available to sabbatical officers
- Create a personalised wellbeing action plan for the year ahead
🌱 Organising and Empowering Students to Make Change: Leading to Activate Your Grassroots
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Understand the distinction between leading for students and leading with students
- Apply community organising techniques to mobilise and sustain student-led action
- Identify and develop new student leaders within your networks
- Use storytelling and shared purpose to strengthen participation and belonging
- Design an engagement plan that supports grassroots activity beyond your term of office
🤝Making the Most of Your Time and Working Effectively with Staff
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Prioritise goals using tools like the Eisenhower Matrix or SMART objectives
- Understand the dynamics of working within a staff-led organisation as a student leader
- Build effective, respectful, and mutually accountable relationships with SU and university staff
- Communicate your vision in ways that inspire buy-in and action
- Navigate common tensions between autonomy and collaboration
🧩Team Building: Creating an Effective Team Dynamic
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify your personal working style and those of your team members
- Understand the stages of team development and how to support team cohesion
- Use practical tools for giving feedback, resolving conflict, and celebrating success
- Co-create team norms and values that foster trust, respect, and shared accountability
- Reflect on how identity, privilege, and power dynamics shape team interactions
🛠️Getting Things Done: Practical Workshops
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Apply project management tools to priority campaigns or projects
- Set realistic goals and track progress through reflection and task management
- Identify barriers to implementation and strategies to overcome them
- Engage stakeholders effectively to build momentum and visibility
- Share peer tips, templates, and resources for managing officer workloads
👉Important Details
1 day course £485 plus VAT per SU . A full day of training, can be delivered in two half days online
2 day course £825 plus VAT per SU. Two full days of training, can be delivered as four half day sessions online
Looking for something bespoke or to partner with other SUs?
Please do get in contact with us, we’re flexible to your needs.
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