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Development Plan

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Development Plan

By: Katherine Nacorda


BSE 2-A
Development Plan
• The documents of the goals, required skill and competency development,
and objectives.
• It is created by the manager working closely with the staff member to
identify the necessary skills and resources to support the staff member’s
career goals and the organization’s business needs.
• A schedule for the next weeks that highlights the steps and milestone in the
process of getting the business up and running.
• Can also include the steps and milestones you have to accomplished so far
to provide a history of your achievements for the business
• Career goals and targets.
• Actions for making those goals happen.
• Timelines for achieving the goal
• What resources are needed to achieve the goal.
Benefits of Development
Plan to the Employees
• Increased Transparency
- The act of pulling together this plan will require employees to have honest conversations
about what they want to achieve, and what their company can make available to them.
• Better support
- Workers can’t expect their employers to be mind readers. A documented plan gets team
members and their management on the same page about their desires, and leads to far better
company support in making those career goals a reality.
• Greater sense of purpose
- Keeping an eye on the prize (in this case, an overarching career goal) can reignite a sense
of motivation and purpose at work.

• Increased motivation
- Only about half of employees strongly agree that they know what is expected of them at
work. So, how can you expect your employees to be ready and raring to tackle their
obligations, if they aren’t even clear on their responsibilities and targets? Related to the
increased transparency we discussed above, employers who support their team’s development
with a formal plan can expect to see a major uptick in motivation simply because people feel
empowered with information about their expectations.

• Improved engagement
- One surefire way to boost employee happiness and, as a result, engagement levels, is to
prove that you actually care about them. There’s no better way to do that than being in their
corner, pushing them toward the goals they really want to accomplish.
7 STEPS TO CREATE
DEVELOPMENT PLAN
1. Start with an honest self assessment
• The bulk of a professional development plan will be focused on where you
want to go with your career. But, before you can sink your teeth into that, you
first need to understand where you’re starting. That’s why you need to lay the
groundwork by completing an honest self-assessment about your current skill
level, any obvious gaps you’ve noticed, and what career goals have been
looming in your brain.
2. Identify career goals
• Remember that not everything you uncover during that self assessment will be useful to
you. Sure, maybe you could improve your data analytics skills—but, if it’s not something
that’s interesting to you or that will serve you in your career, then there’s really no point in
focusing your energy and attention on that objective.

3. Research available development opportunities


• It’s time to put on your detective hat and figure out what’s available and realistic within
your current company.
• How much budget (if any) can they allocate to career development for employees?
• Do they have any existing programs or resources that could help you?
• What have they done for other employees?
4. Document your supporting activities
• It’s time to identify the tangible steps and actionable activities that will help you work
toward the broader objectives you’ve set .
• Let’s say that you’ve identified a goal of moving into a leadership position. What actions do
you need to take in order to make that happen? Perhaps you could:
  - Participate in your company’s annual program about leadership values
- Raise your hand to spearhead a cross-functional project
- Attend a leadership seminar
Those are all great ways to take steps toward your goals, and they should be documented
within your professional development plan so that you can accurately track your progress on
those activities.

5. Sort out your timeline


• Once you’ve identified what activities will support your goal, go through and assign a target
end date to each of them. When should you have that specific step completed?
 
6. Understand what resources you need
• In this step, you’re going to be working closely with your employer to make this
professional development plan a reality, then you need to have a solid handle on what
resources you’ll need from them.
•  That way, when you and your manager present your plan to the higher-ups within your
organization, you have detailed documentation about what you’re hoping they’ll provide.
That’s far more effective than approaching them with an open-ended request that says,
“Here’s what I want—how will you help me make it happen?”

7. Keep tabs on progress


• If this is something that your company is leading or supporting you in, that might mean
submitting your documented plan to your HR team to have it formally filed.
Steps and Milestones W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 …

Develop an Operations Plan


/            
Produce model of product
  / /        
Testing product on customers
    / /      
Finding suppliers
        /    
Ordering raw materials
          /  
…              

Example of Development Plan


Order the list of steps and milestones according to the time they are due. Start with the
step you have to do next.

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