Developing your people: plans, stretch and fair opportunity

Skills you'll practise

• Run a development conversation that covers strengths, interests, goals and team needs
• Write an individual development plan with specific objectives, activities, support, evidence and dates
• Read a skills matrix to identify gaps, cross-training priorities and single points of failure
• Design a stretch assignment with clear scope, support and a safety net
• Allocate development opportunities transparently and check that access is fair across the team

Course outline

1. 1.Developing your people: plans, stretch and fair opportunityVideo · 3 min
2. 2.Development conversationsLesson · 15 min
3. 3.Plans, skills matrices and stretchLesson · 18 min
4. 4.Fair access and follow-throughLesson · 17 min
5. 5.Developing your people: plans, stretch and fair opportunity: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 15 questions
6. 6.Final exam8 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

Sources it draws on

The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.

• US Office of Personnel Management: Career Development (individual development plans)
• General people-leadership practice for team leads and managers