Ashmolean Museum Introducing Personal Development Reviews

1. Ashmolean Museum Introducing Personal Development Reviews

2. PDRs

3. PDRs • Why are we doing this? What’s in it for you? • Why now? • What it is (and what it is not) • What it will take to work • Support available • What I am doing

4. Why are we doing this? What’s in it for you? • We need to increase the focus we put on improving your skills and your development needs • We want to help everyone understand how the work you do, and that of your team, fits in to the development of the museum • We have aspirations to lead the museum sector – we want to be seen as role models • Essential preliminary to Investors in people • Enables everyone to talk to their manager about their development needs so that we can work on meeting them

5. Why now? • Museum strategy now announced • ACE/Renaissance funding in place with increased focus on leadership across the sector • Resources (including training) now available to support you • Time to plan and prepare before next academic year

6. What it is – and what it is not • helping individuals and their line managers set meaningful objectives for the employee • helps everyone to effectively contribute to the work of their team • see how this contributes to the performance of the museum as a whole; • focusses on the development, both personal and professional that the individual needs in order to continue to develop in their role. • It is not about a pass/fail type of measurement of performance and is not linked to pay.

7. What it will take to work • Everyone needs to learn and understand the procedure and annual timetable • Line managers need to attend the training sessions • Everyone needs to start thinking about effective objectives • Everyone needs to consider what good looks like for them in their role, and what they need to do to be able to continuously work at this level • Open and honest discussions between people and their managers about performance and development need to become part of the normal way we do things

8. Support available • training sessions for line managers • OLI training support • Help from HR • Support from CMT members • Access to University intranet & advice

9. What I am doing? DRAFT DIRECTOR OBJECTIVES 2012-13 (1) 1. Development and maintenance of a collaborative research programme with an international component which has “REF-able” outcomes. 2. Enhancement of object-based teaching through appointment of Mellon Foundation Director and 3 teaching curators. 3. Ensure that the agreed budget and financial targets for the Museum are met.

10. What I am doing? DRAFT DIRECTOR OBJECTIVES 2012-13 (2) 4. Encourage a more diverse audience through attracting a greater variety of visitors to the Museum across the year and strengthening the Museum’s web presence through the creation of an E-learning function within the Museum. 5. Provision of an improved “offer” through retail and related improvements and extended openings with appropriate events. 6. Review and extend the Museum’s outreach through creation of an Ashmolean ‘outstation’ at Broadway, an extended educational programme and a compelling exhibition programme