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Psychological Safety – Building Trust and Openness in Your Team We are delighted to invite you to Psychological Safety, an engaging in-person session designed to help you foster an environment where everyone feels safe to speak up, share ideas, and take interpersonal risks without fear. In this session, you will: Explore the key elements of psychological safety Assess your own trust-building strengths and areas for growth Identify practical actions to help create a psychologically safe environment within your team Led by Gail Zaleski, this workshop offers valuable insights for anyone looking to strengthen team dynamics, enhance collaboration, and build a culture of openness and mutual respect. Session Details: Date: Thursday, 15th May 2025 Time: 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Location: In-person Facilitator: Gail Zaleski All employees are welcome and encouraged to attend this valuable development session.

Learning@Biogen – Discover Your Development Opportunities We are excited to invite you to Learning@Biogen, a short and informative session designed to help you navigate the wide range of learning and development resources available across the organisation. Led by our global learning partner, Gail Zaleski, this session will: Introduce Biogen’s enterprise learning offerings for individuals, people managers, and leaders Show you where to access learning resources Help you begin or continue your personal and professional development journey Whether you're just getting started or looking to take your skills to the next level, this session will guide you on how to make the most of the learning opportunities at Biogen. Session Details: Date: Tuesday 13th May Time: 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Location: Hybrid- Office Location: Room: Beech Facilitator: Gail Zaleski All employees are encouraged to attend and take the next step in their development journey.

Learning@Biogen – Discover Your Development Opportunities We are excited to invite you to Learning@Biogen, a short and informative session designed to help you navigate the wide range of learning and development resources available across the organisation. Led by our global learning partner, Gail Zaleski, this session will: Introduce Biogen’s enterprise learning offerings for individuals, people managers, and leaders Show you where to access learning resources Help you begin or continue your personal and professional development journey Whether you're just getting started or looking to take your skills to the next level, this session will guide you on how to make the most of the learning opportunities at Biogen. Session Details: Date: Thursday 15th May Time: 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Location: Hybrid- Office Location: Room: Beech Facilitator: Gail Zaleski All employees are encouraged to attend and take the next step in their development journey.

Learning@Biogen – Discover Your Development Opportunities We are excited to invite you to Learning@Biogen, a short and informative session designed to help you navigate the wide range of learning and development resources available across the organisation. Led by our global learning partner, Gail Zaleski, this session will: Introduce Biogen’s enterprise learning offerings for individuals, people managers, and leaders Show you where to access learning resources Help you begin or continue your personal and professional development journey Whether you're just getting started or looking to take your skills to the next level, this session will guide you on how to make the most of the learning opportunities at Biogen. Session Details: Date: Thursday 15th May Time: 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Location: Hybrid- Office Location: Room: Beech Facilitator: Gail Zaleski All employees are encouraged to attend and take the next step in their development journey.

Join us for a round table discussion with Ginger Gregory, CHRO. Inclusive: How to get more Women to the Top? As part of the UKI Wellbeing day we’re inviting everyone to participate in one of a series of roundtable focus groups hosted by HR and Ginger Gregory, our CHRO. These sessions are current organisational challenges designed to foster open dialogue, enhance collaboration, and gather your valuable insights. This is an opportunity to connect, share experiences, and contribute meaningfully to our organisation.

Join us for a round table discussion with Ginger Gregory, CHRO. Think Broadly: How do we create time and space for White Space thinking? As part of the UKI Wellbeing day we’re inviting everyone to participate in one of a series of roundtable focus groups hosted by HR and Ginger Gregory, our CHRO. These sessions are current organisational challenges designed to foster open dialogue, enhance collaboration, and gather your valuable insights. This is an opportunity to connect, share experiences, and contribute meaningfully to our organisation.

Join us for a round table discussion with Ginger Gregory, CHRO. Talent and Drive Results: How can we best leverage talent opportunities in a global organisation? As part of the UKI Wellbeing day we’re inviting everyone to participate in one of a series of roundtable focus groups hosted by HR and Ginger Gregory, our CHRO. These sessions are current organisational challenges designed to foster open dialogue, enhance collaboration, and gather your valuable insights. This is an opportunity to connect, share experiences, and contribute meaningfully to our organisation.

Join us for a round table discussion with Ginger Gregory, CHRO. Age Diversity and Inclusivity: From Early Career and beyond, How do we best grow our talent? As part of the UKI Wellbeing day we’re inviting everyone to participate in one of a series of roundtable focus groups hosted by HR and Ginger Gregory, our CHRO. These sessions are current organisational challenges designed to foster open dialogue, enhance collaboration, and gather your valuable insights. This is an opportunity to connect, share experiences, and contribute meaningfully to our organisation.

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This intensive one-day training programme has been developed to help those involved in producing specifications create high quality documents in an organised and effective way. The programme explains the primary purpose of specifications and the importance of understanding the context in which they are used. It focuses particularly on how to develop and structure content and write requirements that are clear and concise. The methods and techniques presented will provide a practical foundation course for those new to the topic whilst offering new insights to those with more experience. The objectives of the workshop are to: Review and discuss the role and purpose of specifications Present a structured approach for organising and producing specifications Explain each of the key steps involved in creating effective specifications Review some methods for assisting in defining requirements Explain how to define the scope and develop the structure for a specification Present methods to assist the writing and editing of specifications Review how specifications should be issued and controlled 1 Introduction Course objectives Review of participants' needs and objectives 2 Specifications in perspective The role and purpose of specifications The impact of specifications on commercial performance The qualities of an effective specification The five key steps of 'POWER' writing: prepare-organise-write-edit-release 3 Step 1: Preparing to write Defining the purpose the specification; integrating the specification and contract Deciding how to specify: when to specify in functional and technical terms Getting the right people involved at the right time; engaging stakeholders Applying procedures for writing, issuing and controlling specifications 4 Step 2: Organising the specification content Scoping the document: scope maps, check lists, structured brainstorming Clarifying requirements; separating needs and desires Dealing with requirements that are difficult to quantify Useful techniques: cost benefit analysis, Pareto analysis Deciding what goes where; typical contents and layout for a specification Creating and using model forms: typical sections and sub sections 5 Step 3: Writing the specification Identifying and understanding the readers needs Choosing and using the right words; dealing with jargon Important words; will, shall, must; building a glossary Using sentence structure and punctuation to best effect Understanding the impact of style, format and appearance Avoiding common causes of ambiguity; being concise and ensuring clarity 6 Step 4: Editing the specification Why editing is difficult; how to develop a personal editing strategy Key areas to review: structure, content, accuracy, clarity, style and grammar Editing tools and techniques 7 Step 5: Releasing and controlling the specification Key requirements for document issue and control Final formatting and publication issues; document approval Requirements management: managing revisions and changes 8 Course review and action planning What actions should be implemented to improve specifications? Conclusion