Development Plans

Development plans provide a way for organizations to create specific action plans for employees designed to assist their growth within your organization. They help employees succeed by identifying areas for improvement and defining specific activities to support improvement in those areas.

The main components of development plans include:

• Plan. This is the overarching objective for the employee, such as Improve Leadership Skills. It defines the overall goal for the employee.
• Development Opportunities. These are the specific behaviors that drive the overall goal of the plan. Plans can have multiple development opportunities for the employee to improve upon.
• Activities. Activities are specific tasks that directly associate to a development opportunity for the plan. These include things like taking a course or seminar, demonstrating aptitude with colleagues, etc.

The development plan workflow generates tasks throughout the process to help facilitate completion of activities. Employees and coaches assigned to plans are notified when new plans are created.

The additional integration with symplr Leadership Assessments offers even more insight into employee development. If an employee has a completed assessment on file, the results of that survey are automatically imported in to new development plans as Development Opportunities and Suggested Activities based on the recommendations from the report.

Though anyone can create a development plan (employees, managers, administrators), the most common scenario is when a manager creates a development plan for an employee.