Universities, Educational Institutions and Knowledge Transfer Professionals
Kintish have found that all universities and educational bodies are being encouraged to be more enterprising. Income streams are heavily dependent on teaching and research - therefore, the need to diversify into Enterprise or Third Stream Activities is ever increasing. What are enterprise activities? Anything that will make money for universities, for instance working with a company to bring an invention to market, selling laboratory services or providing short courses.
In the last 2-3 years most universities have appointed Business Development Managers, whose full time job is to link academics to companies. Additionally, placement tutors want to find new opportunities for students, to find speakers and case study material. We find that business development managers are more commercially savvy, academics less so.
Why Universities need to network...
Kintish recently stumbled across this article, which highlights why it is important for academics and staff in Universities and Colleges to network effectively. After reading the article on networking at Universities, please feel free to contact us to see how Kintish can help your team.
£2 million challenge for universities
A £2 million fund designed to encourage Wales’s universities to help individuals and businesses weather the economic downturn has been launched.
The Economic Support Initiative (ESI) will encourage higher education (HE) institutions to play their part in improving the employment prospects of recent graduates, and those recently unemployed or facing redundancy.
It will also back institutions which offer to support companies’ performance through providing access to HE knowledge and expertise.
Securing money through the fund will enable institutions to offer packages of training, development and practical support to individuals and businesses to improve skills and encourage innovation.
Find out more about this funding - why not consider improving the prospects of your graduates by helping them to become a more confident and effective networker?
So how can we help?
If you find it difficult to bridge that gap between your educational body and external companies, it may be time to brush up on your networking skills. Networking is an integral part of helping your institution gain more revenue and build stronger, longer lasting relationships with external bodies. We can run in-house tailored workshops for your institution, or why not come on one of our Nationwide public courses to experience what we do?
Institute of Knowledge TransferKintish are proud to announce that we are accredited with the Institute of Knowledge Transfer (IKT). The IKT is dedicated solely to meeting the needs of the individuals involved in knowledge transfer, whilst facilitating the need to turn cutting edge research into viable business propositions quickly; to effectively increase the rate of research outputs. Here is what Russ Hepworth from the IKT Leeds thought of Kintish training... "Will provided IKT members with a memorable introduction to his networking courses. This was well received by all. Will, with colleague Ann, were entertaining whilst disseminating some clear, concise and extremely valuable skills which will remain personally useful for many years to come. For networking training - look no further than Kintish." For more information please visit www.ikt.org.uk.
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The benefits of our trainingLack of self confidence is the fundamental reason people who aren’t in marketing and selling don’t take risks or do something different from the norm. Most of the audiences we work with are people in the professional and financial world who find business development in general and networking in particular somewhat of a challenge. We cannot give people self confidence, but what we do is give them tips, techniques and ideas. When they practice and implement them, our audiences find their self confidence builds automatically and business development becomes a natural and integrated part of their daily life. The result of this is they become an all-round modern day professional. 3 reasons why people generally don’t like networking and following up
How we can help? In simple step-by-step processes we show delegates how to:
As a result of our training, delegates will
Educational Bodies we have worked with previously...Association of European Science and Technology Transfer Professionals What they say about Kintish..."I have found Kintish to be very professional from my initial sourcing request to delivery of the session. Feedback from colleagues was mostly very good and the fun aspect really helped to drive the message home. Out of the sessions running last Friday the Kintish one was best received." "It was a great learning experience attending your session. You addressed most of the common issues we, students face during business events. It was more of an experiential learning than just another lecture session. After this session, we would surely derive better results from forthcoming events. Also, not to forget, your enthusiasm was contagious and it spread to all in the class. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us" "We would like to thank you for speaking at the Medici training session on Tuesday evening. We wanted to set the standard for the whole programme by giving the highest quality training in the first module, and your input really helped us to achieve this." "Ann and the team at Kintish delivered an outstanding programme and excellent support throughout." "An outstanding session in building confidence and providing inexperienced networkers with the tools and tips to approach future networking opportunities." "I want to thank you for the workshop, it was one of the best we had so far and taught me very useful information and skill that I will definitely apply in many situations. The teaching was simple and straightforward and yet very powerful." "I thoroughly enjoyed the session and thought the administration was dealt with very professionally. I would like to pass on my thanks to you and the team for making my job easier by being so efficient" "Enagaging, funny and practical. I learned some really useful tips." "An excellent introduction to the world of networking with business. A very worthwhile, entertaining and enjoyable afternoon. Sue Tonks’ energy is infectious!" "A highly entertaining and informative course. Full of 'ahaa' moments that will be of use thoughout my career - hopefully resulting in future opportunities." "Even when you have been networking as a significant part of your job, this course opens your eyes to new ideas and techniques." "Will Kintish provides a great insight into how to network confidently, both in business and social occasions" "Extremely useful for improving confidence and techniques in networking and meeting new people - both socially and for business." "It's not often I leave a training course feeling that what I've learnt has been very beneficial and can be immediately put into practice without having to study reams of literature. I attended a networking meeting a few hours after the training session and what you taught us did help. I know there's a lot more to learn and I'm looking forward to improving my networking skills." "I found the day very beneficial, the level and pace was just right. The presenter was professional and I believe I have improved my presenting skills and generally feel more confident about presenting. I would recommend this course to others." "It was highly beneficial and I would recommend it to anyone, whether they are experienced in presentation skills or lacking in confidence in presentations, we can all learn from an event like this delivered by someone like Will." "Your session was very helpful to the delegates; giving them an extremely good overview of networking skills. From feedback delegates were very impressed and not only by the course content, but also by the way it was presented." |
The Importance of Networking in AcademiaThere are big differences between networking in academia and networking in business, although a number of similarities do also exist. If anything, networking is more of a necessary way of life for academics, because fields of study tend to be so specialised that colleagues are scattered around the globe, makings forums, journals, conferences and e-mail a vital part of keeping abreast of advances..... Click here to read the rest of this article! |
