My Development Overview

This guide provides essential information for HR staff to create and manage Career Development Reviews and Personal Development Reviews for Researchers.

Contents

  1. My Development Overview
  2. Create Career Development Review
  3. Adjust Career Development Review during the academic year

'My Development' functionality is currently available only to participating departments with Researchers. We are rolling this feature out in stages, for more information and to register your interest please refer to our dedicated webpage or email the HR Systems team.

‘My Development’ enables researchers to complete their Career Development Reviews (CDRs) and log their Professional Development days. The functionality aims to provide a useful, interactive record of these valuable conversations and a way for departments and faculties to support quality CDR conversations for all researchers within their subject areas.  The purpose of this guide is to provide system guidance, for University best practice guidance please see the Researcher Hub webpages.  

Key reminders

  1. After clicking SAVE/COMPLETE, wait for the green success message and dark green line to fill before proceeding. 
  2. Ellipses (…)represent additional options, usually at the end of a row. 
  3. Where the below guidance mentions CDRs, the same process can be applied to PDR forms. 

 

A Career Development Review (CDR) is a structured and confidential conversation about a researcher’s career development.  The focus of a CDR conversation is on supporting career planning and exploring personal career aspirations in any sector or in any role.  The conversation should identify career goals, opportunities to improve career prospects, routes to further career development and related skills and professional development or training objectives. 

Guidance from the Researcher Hub on the value of CDRs:  Career Development Reviews for Fixed-Term Researchers

Guidance on the Research Culture Toolkit: ADMN - Research Culture Toolkit - Home (sharepoint.com)  

 

System guidance for Reviwee: How-to guide: Employee Self-Service | Staff Gateway

 

System guidance for Reviewer: How-to guide: Manager Self-Service - Login to HR Self-Service | Staff Gateway

Please liaise with your local research staff representative: Research Staff Representation

Term Description 
CDR A Career Development Review (CDR) is a structured and confidential conversation about a researcher’s career development​.
PDR Personal Development Review (PDR) is a dedicated conversations focused on colleagues personal and career development​.
Personal Development Time University commitment to support researchers with ten days of professional development time (pro rata) per year.​
Reviewee Researcher who is carrying out the CDR/ PDR​.
Reviewer Manager/ individual who is reviewing the CDR/ PDR​. 
Work Group Manager Individual recorded as the manager of the Work Group assigned to the individual's appointment.  The Reviewer and Work Group Manager can be recorded as different people.
Talent Dashboard Dashboard hosts the reviews for HR staff to set-up and manage the reviews​.
My Development HR Self-Service Tab enabling staff to access CDRs/ PDRs and record Professional Development time.  
Insight Reporting Reporting tool within PeopleXD, that is being used for reporting for My Development (also used for Onboarding)​.
Cycle This is the period that the CDR form is accessible to staff, eg October – September.  The completion date (or period) for CDRs can still be managed locally eg if these are normally launched in May – July this can be managed by local communications​.
Criteria Group  The group of staff you wish to assign the CDR form to, ie researchers within your department.​
Category and Subcategory

Recorded on staff records for HESA purposes they are also used to ensure correct staff are included in the the Criteria Group, eg for researchers:

  • Category = 2 Research only
  • Subcategory = AP Research Staff and AS Research Support ​

 

All staff are automatically set-up with the option to record their Professional Development time.

Refer to the links below to seek guidance regarding logging Professional Development time for researchers:

Reviewees: How-to guide: Employee Self-Service | Staff Gateway

Reviewers: How-to guide: Manager Self-Service - Login to HR Self-Service | Staff Gateway

For further support on Professional Development time please see the Researcher Hub webpages: 

There are a suite of reports to support My Development. 
All of the reports are within the Insight reporting suite within PeopleXD, they can all be exported to excel or printed.  Below is a list of the reports available

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Report Description
Review Status By Reviewee, this report shows the status of reviews that have been allocated to them and gives visibility of who is responsible for progressing the review. 
Review Status Pivot  A pivot report giving a visual overview of the status (Pending Reviewee Sign Off, Pending Reviewer Sign Off, Review Complete) of reviews that have been allocated.
Workgroup Manger A report listing the Reviewer that will automatically be assigned to each review (the Work group Manager) along with any amendments, eg where the Reviewer has been overwritten with My Development. Run this report to identify if the Reviewer needs to be updated (ie if it isn't appropriate for the Work Group Manager to be the Reviewer, see Change the review manager guidance). 
Change of Reviewer Enables visibility of where the Reviewer is not the assigned Manager (Work Group Manager).
Multiple Reviews Assigned Details where researchers have multiple reviews assigned to them.

   

Report Description
Professional Development Researcher  Shows Professional Development time taken by researchers, the parameters can be set by start date and end date. 
Professional Development   Shows all staff who have taken Professional Development time.

 

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