Growth plans overview
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Summary of Growth plans overview
Growth plans enable ServiceNow customers to create structured, personalized career development roadmaps. They help organize and track career goals by providing guidance and clarity on tasks like training, mentorship, and peer or manager interactions. Growth plans can be created based on individual aspirations and conversations or built from scratch using selected criteria such as trending learning courses or review activities.
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Key Features
- Create a growth plan: Initiate plans aligned with your career aspirations and share them with your manager to set clear and achievable goals.
- Build from scratch: Follow guided steps to construct a new growth plan, including a required 1:1 check-in with your manager.
- Growth plan details page: View and manage your plan’s overall details, including due dates, status, and the ability to add activities like learning, mentorship, or check-ins.
- Your next tasks: Track and start upcoming activities essential for progressing your plan, with clear status indicators such as upcoming, required, overdue, or due soon.
- Your growth plans: Access current plans with details on progress, state, and last update; sort and search plans for easy management.
- Past growth plans: Review completed or canceled plans with relevant status and completion dates.
Practical Application
Growth plans support career development by outlining concrete steps and opportunities such as job shadowing, mentorship, coaching, professional certifications, leadership courses, and networking events. These plans help you collaborate with managers and HR to align personal goals with organizational priorities, ensuring a clear path towards career advancement and skill development.
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.
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.
Growth plan home
| 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. |
- 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 benefitsNote: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.