Additional PDR Guidance and Resources
Online Training Modules
There are two online training modules to support you through the PDR process.
An Introduction to PDR explains the benefits of PDR to the individual and the organisation and provides an overview of the key elements of the process. A successful PDR depends upon both reviewer and reviewee understanding the process and being fully prepared. Enrolment key: intropdr2
Setting Objectives will help you understand the importance of setting objectives and explain how to use the SMART model to design effective performance objectives. Enrolment key: setobjectives2
PDR Form Completion Guidance
Personal Development Planning Toolkit
Our Values
Exemplar Objectives
Russell Group Benchmark Data
SMART Objectives Guidance
SMART Objectives Guidance is an introductory workbook focusing on how to design objectives which are SMART, aligned to the University strategy and which can be clearly understood by both the individual and any member of their team. (Please contact us via the HR helpdesk should you require an alternative format to this pdf document).
LTS Additional Resources
LTS Promotion Guidance Presentation
VP (Learning & Teaching) Presentation for PDR Reviewers of LTS Colleagues
This presentation is intended as pre-reading to the workshop below, so please access this prior to the workshop.
This presentation contains an audio track. To listen to the presentation as intended, please download the PPT file and view it as a slide show.
PDR for ECDP Participants - Workshop for PDR Reviewers
Other Useful Resources
Having a development conversation and having a constructive conversation are two online resources to help reviewers and reviewees plan for these types of conversations in the PDR meeting.
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