Tuesday 17th January 2023 – The first team away day of 2023 was an away day at home!

We started the day with a Strategic Thinking masterclass with Professor Stuart Robinson from the Business School– where we spoke about successful organisations, different strategies in business, and discussed a case study on ITVx. This session allowed us to all think about the Digital Strategy as a business strategy, and how we can build on it to make it successful.

Visiting the Digital Humanities Lab

We then walked down to the Digital Humanities Lab were we broke off into small groups and explored the different digital tools they use, and learnt about the cool projects that they have been apart of! This was a super interesting part of the day, it was great meeting a different team at the University and finding out about what they are working on and how we can collaborate in the future.

An open Reflectance Transformation Imaging machine on a desk next to a screen displaying a University of Exeter website — Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI machine)

The backs of two people, one wearing a black jacket with short brown hair and the other with a dark blue puffer jacket and shoulder length blonde hair looking at a photo scanning machine with an open book on display — Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI machine)

Focusing on the Digital Strategy

After lunch we all came back together to review our December outcomes, and work on the new ‘hill to climb’ for April. We then broke off into chapters to talk about our personal and team goals, and how our work directly relates to the Digital Strategy.

The importance of feedback

We finished the day with a session delivered by our ‘Culture Club’ on the importance of feedback and used a Menti Meter quiz to gauge an idea on how comfortable everyone feels giving and receiving feedback within the team. Feedback is something we feel is a crucial aspect needed within the team to ensure that we are continuously making progress and removing any barriers we face as a team.

If you would like the opportunity to work in this new Digital team at the University of Exeter, then check out our recruitment page! Search the key word ‘digital’ to view all of our vacancies, we are constantly looking for new talent so keep checking the site for updates!