Growth plans overview

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  • Updated January 30, 2025
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    Summary of Growth Plans Overview

    Growth plans in ServiceNow Yokohama provide a streamlined and intuitive way for employees to organize, track, and advance their career goals. These plans offer structure and guidance tailored to individual aspirations, helping users create actionable roadmaps for career development with support from peers and managers.

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    Key Features

    • Create a Growth Plan: Begin a plan based on personal aspirations or conversations with managers, making career progression transparent and achievable. Alternatively, build a plan from scratch using review activities or trending learning courses, with mandatory 1:1 manager check-ins.
    • Growth Plan Details Page: View comprehensive plan information including due dates, plan status, and activities. Users can share, launch, discard, and edit plans, as well as add activities such as learning modules, mentorship, or check-ins.
    • Your Next Tasks: Stay on track by monitoring upcoming, required, overdue, or soon-due activities, which can be started directly from this section.
    • Your Growth Plans: Access current plans with details on progress, status, and last updated dates, including sorting and searching capabilities.
    • Past Growth Plans: Review completed or canceled plans with status and completion dates.

    Development Opportunities

    Growth plans support various professional development activities such as job shadowing, mentorship, coaching, career counseling, certifications, leadership programs, team-building exercises, conferences, and tuition reimbursement. Customers are encouraged to collaborate with their managers or HR representatives to identify suitable opportunities aligned with their career goals and organizational priorities.

    Build your growth plan to organize and track your career goals.

    Growth plans are a simplified and intuitive way to build growth plans that give your career goals guidance and structure and are used to do the following:

    • Create a growth plan.
    • View tasks connected to your growth plan such as trainings or connections with peers or managers.
    • View growth plan items and their state, progress, and status updates.
    • View growth plan details such as due dates and plan activities, plan status, and edit your plan details.
    • View and add additional plan activities.
    • Learn more about how growth plans can help you develop and discover new opportunities.
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    Create a growth plan based on your aspirations and conversations or you can build a growth plan from scratch based off criteria selected during the creation of your growth plan.

    Growth plans are tailored to your individual needs and aspirations to help provide a roadmap to your career goals. With support from your peers and manager, you can achieve new heights in your career.

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    Table 1. Features overview
    Feature Description
    Create a growth plan (based on aspirations and conversations) A growth plan is initially created based on your aspirations or conversations. Growth plans can be shared with your manager to make career growth clear, achievable, and rewarding.
    Build a growth plan (from scratch)

    Takes you through the steps to build a new growth plan based on review activities or trending learning courses.

    1:1 Check-in with your manager is Required.
    Growth plan details page

    Shows you the overall growth plan details where you can view details about your plan, and axes before you fillyour plan activities.

    You can discard, share, launch and set a growth plan due date and view your plan activities and add activities such as learning, check-in, mentorship, or something else.

    Your next tasks

    Shows you activities that help you stay on track by completing some tasks that need your attention.

    You can start any activity listed in this section. The status of a plan item might be listed as any one of the following (upcoming, required, overdue, due soon, and up next).
    Your growth plans

    Shows you plan details such as plan name, state, progress, and the last updated date.

    You can sort and search plans.
    Past growth plans Shows you plan details such as plan status (all, completed, canceled), name, state, and date completed.
    Here are some examples of development opportunities offered with growth plans:
    • Job shadowing or mentorship programs
    • Coaching or career counseling services
    • Professional development programs or certifications
    • Leadership development programs or courses
    • Team building and collaboration exercises
    • Conferences, seminars, or networking events
    • Tuition reimbursement or other educational benefits
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      connect with your manager or HR representative to find out what development opportunities are available to you, to help create a development plan that aligns with your career goals and the priorities of the organization.