People and Organisational Development

Award-winning skills, organisation and leadership development

Our vision

To be a catalyst for positive change, enabling the University to realise its strategic ambitions. Through our interactions we will support:

  • Staff and students to achieve their full potential and take ownership of their own learning
  • Teams to excel and continuously improve
  • Leaders to empower staff through a dynamic and inclusive approach

What we offer

People and Organisational Development offer development and learning opportunities for everyone at the University of York, from individual staff, teams, departments to students through our diverse range of programmes:

Staff Development: Organisational Development:

Principles of working

When you work with People and Organisational Development, be it through any of our open programmes, leadership programmes, bespoke work or 1-1 interventions, you can expect a service that follows these principles of working:

  • We will be outcome focused and evidence driven to ensure the interventions we offer are aligned to the institutional strategic ambitions and departmental priorities
  • We will co-create in collaboration and partnership to ensure we are culturally sensitive
  • We will deliver our services in a flexible and inclusive way which is digitally enabled where appropriate
  • We will adopt a facilitative approach to maximise learning and enhance best practice
  • We will evaluate the impact of our provision against the agreed outcomes

Team members