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Staff Development Strategy

Our Strategic Challenges

  1. Political and financial uncertainty
  2. An ever increasing workload
  3. A changing work environment
  4. A need to build leadership capability
  5. A need to engage staff more fully in University aims
  6. The evolving role of the Academic

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Staff Development Priorities for 2011/12

Following an evaluation of our strategy (July 2011), all effort and resources will be directed towards the following three strategic areas during 2011/12.

  1. Leadership and Management Development
  2. Academic Staff Development
  3. Cultural Change (embedding SPR)

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Our Action

Corporate staff development activity between 2010/11 and 2012/13 (described as year 1,2 or 3) is grouped into one of 12 activity areas and prioritised under each of these six strategic challenges:

Activity Strategic Theme Timescale Link to Strategy Lead Co-ordinator SDA Support
1 Support staff and managers through Process Review and other major change projects 1,2&3 2010/11 E2,5 & R2 Kemi Oladapo Lisa Hutchinson
2 Develop people/team management skills of Academic Staff 2, 4,5&6 2010/11 – 2012/13 E4 & R6 Alison Leggett Lisa Hutchinson
3 Enhancing the transferable skills of Research Staff 5&6 2010/11 – 2012/13 R1,2,3 Alison Leggett Laura Merlino and Beckie Garland
4 Faculty-based bespoke training support (e.g post departmental review) 3&5 2012/13 E5 & R2,6 All Staff Development Managers As appropriate
5 Improve the introduction of new staff into UoB organisational culture and PWE 3&5 2011/12 E3,4,5 & R2,4,6 Sarah McCowen / Christian Carter Beckie Garland
6 Link all Academic Staff development  and career planning to role profiles 2,5 & 6 2010/11 E2,4,5 & R2,3,4,5,6 Alison Leggett Laura Merlino and Beckie Garland
7 Developing appropriate leadership and management skills, particularly amongst middle managers 4 2010/11 – 2012/13 E4 & R6 Fiona Ford Lisa Hutchinson
8 Corporate skills development (e.g new IT systems following Process Review) 1,3&5 2010/11 – 2012/13 E4 & R2 Christian Carter Beckie Garland
9 Maximising the opportunity presented by Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2012 1&6 2010/11 – 2011/12 R3,6 Christian Carter Lisa Hutchinson
10 Develop employee engagement to enhance performance and resilience (PWE) 1&5 2010/11 – 2012/13 E2,5 & R2 Clare Brophy Laura Merlino and Mark Lees
11 Understanding and adapting to changing student expectations 1,2,5&6 2010/11 – 2012/13 E1,2,3,5 Kate Butler / Sarah McCowen Mark Lees
12 Legal Compliance training (diversity, data protection, Health and Safety) 5 2010/11 – 2012/13 R2,6 & E1,3,4,9,10 Christian Carter Mark Lees

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Faculty Support

Staff Development Managers will work more closely with allocated Personnel Managers, and other professional faculty support staff such as Finance and RED colleagues, to support faculty development advice and planning.

Faculty Personnel Manager Staff Development Manager
Medical and Veterinary Science Dorieke Van Den Brom, Catherine Stuart (Langford) Alison Leggett (Sarah McCowen – Langford)
Science Kevin Carolan Christian Carter
Social Science Rachel Shimeld Sarah McCowen
Arts Julie Brown Kate Butler
Engineering Alison Wall Alison Leggett
Registrars Alison Wall, Julie Brown Clare Brophy
Medicine and Dentistry Dorette Morgan Kemi Oladapo

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Our Impact and Quality

A new Measurement Strategy will outline how we will evaluate the impact of what we do at these four (professionally accepted) levels:

Image showing the 4 evaluation levels

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Our Resources

Staff Development employs 9.45 full time equivalent staff.  The depth and breadth of this experience and knowledge is outstanding.  Skills and experience will be flexibly used  where it can deliver the most impact on the six Staff Development Strategic Priorities. 

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