This toolbox offers resources that can stimulate the implementation of Recognition & Rewards (R&R) pillars. These are: diversified career paths; focus on quality in performance assessment; teamwork; good academic leadership; open science. Here you can find workshop and interactive session formats, process overviews and step-by-step guides. Many of these are customisable and adaptable to diverse contexts and participants. All of the tools were originated and created by the EUR R&R team. All our tools are also stored on the EUR Data repository.
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Tools for: diversifying career paths
Offering diversified career paths is one of the ways to create room for diverse talents that exist in academia. This allows academics to follow their true passions and ambitions without having to be 'a sheep with five legs', and to encourages specialisation in a team. .
Academic Career Paths: A Journey from Planning to Evaluation
Guidelines for introducing diversified career paths at a School of a university, from the very first preparatory activities to the post-evaluation actions.
Academic Career Paths: A Design Workshop (in development)
This design workshop is suitable for anyone who wants to organise or initiate a design workshop for developing new academic career paths, through a bottom-up approach.
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Academic Activities Catalogue (in development)
A tool that can be used by academics and their supervisors to get insights in the domains they work in, and the competences they (can) develop while conducting the activities.
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Tools for: focusing on quality
Putting more emphasis on qualitative assessment of academic performance is essential for culture change of R&R. This helps shift the imbalance created by historically favouring quantitative output indicators in assessment, recognising, and rewarding of academic work. The tools below support looking at and talking about results and goals through a more qualitative lens.
Narratives on career development: a writing guide for academics (in development)
This guideline is developed as a support tool for academics, to be used when writing their professional narratives for the yearly Development conversations.
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Narratives on career development: a reading guide for supervisors (in development)
This guideline is developed as a support tool for academic supervisors, to be used before or during the yearly Development conversations.
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Tools for: enabling effective teamwork
Alongside valuing individual performance, R&R emphasises bringing more acknowledgement to the contribution of academics in a team context. Diverse talents and skills interplay and support each other, creating effective, well-functioning teams where talents are utilised in the most beneficial way. This way, teams allow for specialisation. Below you can find tools that stimulate good teamwork.
Unlock Your Team Potential: A Hands-on Workshop
This tool is useful when discussing team dynamics and effective teamwork. The tool gives participants the opportunity to experiment with the variety of talents and interests within a team.
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Tools for: communicating about & embedding R&R
Communicating about R&R is important to create awareness about the programme and the culture change it represents. It also allows to create relatability and address concerns about R&R among academics. At the same time, having a good overview of how existing policies, processes, and procedures relate to R&R and each other encourages programme implementation. You can use the tools below to support these two areas.
Communicating R&R experiences: tips & tricks for communicators
This tool provides guidelines for creating a story that communicates individual鈥檚 perspective on R&R and their experiences with R&R themes and principles.
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R&R Navigator (in development)
A comprehensive overview of how diverse university policies, process, and procedures, as well as international developments relate to R&R and can stimulate programme implementation.
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Evaluating R&R Implementation: A Stepwise Approach
A stepwise approach for evaluating the implementation of R&R within a School. The evaluation focuses on effectiveness, reception and possible areas for improvement with recommendations of R&R policy implemented so far.
Contact
Want to talk about the tools? Mail to: recognitionandrewards@eur.nl