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• Focus identifies time-saving fix for Nuance PDF users
• Are you looking for a large room for teaching or an event?
• Focus Programme: Covid-19
• Focus Showcase creates a buzz
• Colleges benefit from new Graduate Admissions dashboards
• Halving 128 process steps
• How a tidy-up saved £10K
• Improving Departmental Purchasing Processes
• Neighbouring departments explore potential for sharing their teaching spaces
• Improving clarity and understanding of expense claims policy
• Reducing cycle time for Examiners' Reports
• Meet a Focus Practitioner!
• Enhancing visitor experience at the Ashmolean
• Helping the Ashmolean improve retail operations
• Staff applaud Casual Payroll improvements
• Graduate Admissions & Recruitment (GAR) embraces Focus approaches
• Bodleian Admissions endorses Focus approaches
• Would a 'Daily Update' help your team during lockdown?
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• Developing the HR Training Framework
• Departments collaborate to streamline end-to-end recruitment
• 'Focus on People' launched
• Focus plays a major role in 2019 Professional Services Conference
• Making your working days better
• Focus welcomes people on board!
• Focus makes a debut at the Registrar's Update
• Spreading the word to new staff
• First Focus Practitioners complete training
• More Focus Practitioners complete training
• Third cohort of Focus Practitioners completes training
• Focus Toolkit
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• A-Z Tools list
• Update on Focus from the Registrar
• Focus Programme Update
• Focus launches Online Toolkit
• Focus introduces new team
• Improving the University's recruitment data
• Adapting to Covid through process improvement
• Helping graduate students find accommodation for MT20 and HT21
• Online eExpenses system arriving February 2021
• Christmas Travel Testing
• Smoothing transition to online processes for Undergraduate Admissions Tests
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• Reach and impact
• Focus launches Project Dashboard
• NDORMS uses Focus tools in participatory workshop with team members around the globe
• Extending the Focus Network
• Spotlight on best practice for inclusive recruitment
• Student Registry embraces Continuous Improvement
• Giving staff a voice on Health & Safety
• Case Studies
• Associate Professor Inclusive Recruitment Project Showcase
• New Ways of Working
• A year in Focus
• New ‘Cross-GLAM Pool’ brings an innovative approach to staffing
• Focus Tools for Personal Improvement
• Improving information dissemination from UAS to the wider University
• Continuous Improvement (CI)
• Progress on improving gender and ethnicity representation among Associate Professors
• Focus launches Local Practitioner Development Programme
• Improving HR processes in UAS
• Focus launches E-Learning across the University
• Embedding Focus skills locally
• Discovering Continuous Improvement : Focus Conference 2022
• Rethinking your office space?
• Focus announces Conference 2022 and Continuous Improvement Community of Practice (CI CoP)
• Improving Communications across Professional Services
• Become a CI Local Practitioner! New development programme launched
• Working with SoGE to improve HR processes
• New Service Review: University IT infrastructure services
• Event: Improving admissions administration in the Mathematical Institute – a story of Continuous Improvement
• Research is changing... and so are we...
• Meet the Focus team
• Event: Exploring CI - improving team performance using Daily Updates
• New Service Review: Post-Award Research Finance Management
• Event: Put an end to cluttered workspaces and disorganised online document storage using a simple CI tool
• Event: Helping to make working life better by improving your everyday work processes
• CI Conference 2023
• IT Infrastructure Service Review
• CI Local Practitioner development programme - applications have now closed!
• Learning from experience: how Finance are continuously improving finance dashboards
• Exploring CI: Improving Yourself - using CI approaches in your own personal development
• IT Infrastructure Service Review
• Lunch and Learn: Surveys
• Research Finance Management (Post-Award) Service Review
• Oxford Mosaic Accessibility Statement
• Making things better across Oxford - CI Story event
• Continuous Improvement (CI) Local Practitioner Development Programme - apply now!
• Improving Data Protection as part of Information Compliance across the University
• Service Review Guide
• Improve the services you provide using Focus tools
• Lunch and learn: making sense of your survey data
• Understanding Process Mapping – new two-part pilot course from Focus
• CI Lunch & Learn: getting the most out of MIRO, 27 February 2024
• NEW Open Access training course - Understanding Process Mapping
• Focus Programme: Use of cookies on this website
• Information Compliance Service Review Diagnose report - available to read
• Research Finance Management (Post Award) Service Review: recommendations approved and next steps
• Find out how Continuous Improvement (CI) + technology = time saved!
• CI Lunch & Learn - discover the power of feedback
• Discover the power of Continuous Improvement at a Focus Roadshow!
• CI Lunch and Learn: securing continuity with Standard Operating Procedures
• CI Roadshows 2024 - building a culture of Continuous Improvement
• It’s time to celebrate! We have 11 new Associate Practitioners driving Continuous Improvement at Oxford
• CI Story: Continuous Improvement (CI) tools in action
• Information Compliance Service Review: recommendations approved
• Cultivating a sustainable Continuous Improvement culture at Oxford
• Having a Continuous Improvement mindset will help your team thrive