Development Plan Completed Sample
The following pages show a Sample Development Plan using the strategies from this webpage:
Use the GAPS Framework to identify development goals.
Developmental Goal:
1. Decisiveness and Ability to Discern the Issues:
Improve the quality of the options I recommend by basing them on available facts and data.
Measures of Achievement/Expected Outcomes:
-  Decisions are made based on data and fact.
-  Greater acceptance of ideas by my manager, colleagues, or project team members.
HOW? Use the Development Activities Tool to select ideas for some or all of these four categories.
Feedback
Ask and get feedback through coaching, assessments, observation on the job, and ongoing conversations with your team to build leadership skills.
Use fact-based decision making to prepare for and make recommendations to improve a system or process in your department at a team meeting. Invite feedback on your effectiveness from your manager and colleagues. / When
June, 2011
Experiences
Volunteer for assignments that are stretch for you, observe a leader or a successful colleague, practice on-the-job, work on collaborative projects, within our company or in the community. / When
Networking
Connect to share information, exchange ideas and best practices, network and collaborate on assignments with colleagues across the company. Be a mentor and/or a mentee by participating in the company’s MentorConnect program. / When
Learning
Review learning resources, apply relevant tools on-the-job, and join formal and informal development programs to expand your knowledge and to build your skills.
Review the Harvard Resource Module on “Decision-Making.” Apply decision-making tools in module to current projects. / When
February 1, 2011
Development Plan Completed Sample
Use the GAPS Framework to identify development goals.
Developmental Goal:
2. Demonstrate a stronger sense of urgency to accomplish our team's objectives.
Measures of Achievement/Expected Outcomes:
-  Timely completion of my individual goals.
-  Timely delivery of information or reports we need to provide to another department.
HOW? Use the Development Activities Tool to select ideas for some or all of these four categories.
Feedback
Ask and get feedback through coaching, assessments, observation on the job, and ongoing conversations with your team to build leadership skills.
Have a meeting with Tom to see what information his team needs from us to produce their reports. I will capture deadline information and plug those dates into my Lotus Notes calendar. / When
January 15, 2011
Experiences
Volunteer for assignments that are stretch for you, observe a leader or a successful colleague, practice on-the-job, work on collaborative projects, within our company or in the community.
At the start of each week, I will list out my priorities and goals, and identify barriers to completion. Then, I will brainstorm solutions to overcome those barriers. / When
Weekly beginning January, 2011
Networking
Connect to share information, exchange ideas and best practices, network and collaborate on assignments with colleagues across the company. Be a mentor and/or a mentee by participating in the company’s MentorConnect program. / When
Learning
Review learning resources, apply relevant tools on-the-job, and join formal and informal development programs to expand your knowledge and to build your skills. / When
Development Plan Completed Sample
Use the GAPS Framework to identify development goals.
Developmental Goal:
3. Present technical information in an easy—to-understand way to better influence my non-technical
audiences.
Measures of Achievement/Expected Outcomes:
-  Greater acceptance of my ideas. Positive feedback from manager.
HOW? Use the Development Activities Tool to select ideas for some or all of these four categories.
Feedback
Ask and get feedback through coaching, assessments, observation on the job, and ongoing conversations with your team to build leadership skills. / When
Experiences
Volunteer for assignments that are stretch for you, observe a leader or a successful colleague, practice on-the-job, work on collaborative projects, within our company or in the community.
Join the Technical Standards team and present findings to Senior Leadership team. / When
Q4
Networking
Connect to share information, exchange ideas and best practices, network and collaborate on assignments with colleagues across the company. Be a mentor and/or a mentee by participating in the company’s MentorConnect program.
Work with Joan in Ops to see how she translates technical data in her Power Point presentations to Division Management. / When
2/11
Learning
Review learning resources, apply relevant tools on-the-job, and join formal and informal development programs to expand your knowledge and to build your skills. / When