Growth plans overview

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    Summary of Growth Plans Overview

    Growth plans provide a structured approach for organizing and tracking your career goals. They enable you to create personalized growth plans based on your aspirations and discussions, or even from scratch based on selected criteria. This tool is designed to facilitate your professional development and unlock new opportunities with the support of peers and managers.

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    Key Features

    • Create a Growth Plan: Initiate your plan based on personal aspirations or career conversations.
    • Build from Scratch: Follow guided steps to create a new growth plan using review activities or trending learning courses, requiring a 1:1 check-in with your manager.
    • Growth Plan Details Page: Access comprehensive details about your plan, including actions, due dates, and the ability to add or edit activities like learning and mentorship.
    • Your Next Tasks: View and manage upcoming activities that require your attention to keep your growth plan on track.
    • Your Growth Plans: Monitor plan details including name, state, progress, and last updated date, with options to sort and search.
    • Past Growth Plans: Review details of previously completed plans, including status and completion dates.

    Key Outcomes

    Utilizing growth plans can significantly enhance your career development through various opportunities such as mentorship, coaching, professional certifications, and networking events. By collaborating with your manager or HR, you can align your development plan with your career aspirations and organizational priorities, paving the way for achieving your career goals.

    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.