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Welcome to Developing Your Future

The content in Developing Your Future will enable you to keep the skills and knowledge you need for your role up-to-date while also providing access to development that supports your career.

The site has been developed in partnership with Ashridge Business School and gives you access to high-quality resources to support you in your role and beyond. 

To access the service and get more details, please login to www.my.bham.ac.uk using your normal university (ADF) username and password, and then click on the 'my.skills' tab.


Link to capabilities

Virtual and other resources, such as books, web references, and APOD recommended resources and courses, have been mapped to each of the University’s seven capabilities which are required by staff to deliver the strategic plan, in order to support your development.

Developing Your Future contains further information about the capabilities as well as examples of the capabilities in action to assist you in applying the capabilities in your own, and if you are a manager, your people’s development.


The support staff capability framework, developed as part of the PDR scheme, maps to the University capabilities as follows:

  • Customer focus and Team working: Working collaboratively
  • Personal effectiveness and Results delivery: Performance and resource management
  • Communication: Communication

Support staff capability framework (PDF, 55KB, opens new window)