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Development Needs Planner

One development need taken through four steps, identify, analyze, plan, check: usable alone or in a real one-on-one with a team member.

20 minutes per needCompanion to Professional Development Needs, 4-Step FrameworkSELF LEADERSHIPCAREER
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How to use this sheet
  1. One need per sheet. Use it alone, or fill it together in a one-on-one.
  2. Identify: what is hard right now, and what you could do if it were resolved.
  3. Analyze: is it know-how (knowledge, skill, experience) or environment (tools, time, access, workload)? Often both.
  4. Plan for the gap you found: practice, shadowing, a course, a mentor, or an adjustment to the tool, schedule or role.
  5. Set a date to check: what would tell you, concretely, the need is met?
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  1. Identify

    What is difficult right now? What do you see others do well? If it were resolved, what could you do that you cannot do today, and why does it matter?

  2. Analyze

    Know-how or environment? Knowledge and experience, or tools, time, access and workload?

  3. Plan

    For a know-how gap: practice, shadowing, a short course, a mentor. For an environment gap: the specific adjustment. Who does what, by when?

  4. Check

    Date to look again. Did the adjustment or the learning make a difference? What is still missing?

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Source Based on MSF's Ways of Working (WoW) 2 management program, Sessions Nine and Ten, Addressing Professional Development Needs, including the savoir-agir / pouvoir-agir distinction from Richard Wittorski (De la fabrication des competences, 1998) and Guy Le Boterf (Construire les competences individuelles et collectives, 2005). Adapted by Mat Dufour.