Ireland Regional Meeting

• Ireland Regional Meeting
• Date:  24th March 2023
• Optional: 23^rd March hotel stay and evening meal (costs covered by AUDE) - Clayton Hotel Belfast 
• Time: 09.00am - 4.00pm
• Location: Queen's University Belfast
• Cost: free of charge
• Target audience: all director roles with HE estates and FM

24 March: regional meeting agenda

1. 08.45: 
Queen’s University, McClay Library, Gillespie Room, 2nd floor. Member arrival and coffee

2. 09.00 - 09.05
Welcome 

3. 09.05 – 11.10
 Developing Self and Others, Paul Hessey, Advance HE
·    Understanding of the value of emotional intelligence and self-awareness 
·    Listening, generative questioning and the Art of feedback
·    Preparing for a difficult conversation and conversation starters
·    Enhance feedback skills  

4. 11.10 – 11.30
Coffee break with time to read scenarios for item 5

5. 11.30 - 13.15
Deepening understanding and Practice, Paul Hessey, Advance HE 
•    Conversations across difference 
•    Conversations in our organisations and group conversations
•    Analysing organisational narrative and how that plays out in groups  

6. 13.15 – 14.00
Lunch

7. 14.00 – 16.00
Tour: Student Centre and Riddel Hall Expansion

Student Centre
The development of the Student Centre will create a new integrated student facility, which will accommodate support, advice, representational, developmental, and commercial services provided by the University and the Students’ Union. The new building will include similar facilities to the existing SU, including student shop and commercial units, food and drinks outlets, and multi-use event spaces, alongside university services related offices, and meeting and interview rooms.

Riddel Hall Expansion
The proposed building will extend and enhance the Riddel Hall campus and contribute to the on-going success of the Queen’s Management School located at the site. The expansion of the School will ensure that it is fit to serve the changing educational needs of a rapidly growing postgraduate community, who will prove invaluable to the progress of the Northern Ireland economy. The project will provide teaching space and ancillary research, support, and social accommodation. It will also involve renovation work to the listed Riddel Hall building due to the relocation of current facilities to the new proposed space.

8. 16.00
Day closes

Travel
Travel details to QUB are available on their website. 
Car park passes are available on request. Please email your car registration to Sarah s.mccaughan@qub.ac.uk

Optional preparation to get the best from your day
Some short actions for you to underpin and embed your learning ahead of the regional meeting. If you aren’t able to take a look prior to the meeting, they will not preclude your attendance:

• Review the slides from previous regional meeting
• Read this blog, Every good conversation starts with listening
• Take a look at the Transformative Conversations Enquiry Framework
• Read this Advance HE article on the art of handling hard conversations