In all of it’s glory, I’ve provided an example of a professional action plan that illustrates the previous three posts:

• Ghoul or Goal, the Key to Your Action Plan
• Your Professional Development Action Plan: Planning the Action Steps
• Deciding on Measures and Target Dates for your Professional Action Plan

I apologize for the look of this action plan as my skills with WordPress are still evolving, and cutting and pasting tables wasn’t working too well for me.

There is one additional column that I like to use in my action plans that I couldn’t fit into the tables below due to width of this post. This column is called “Potential Business Impact”, and is used to help define the business impact if each goal is achieved or if it is not achieved. Although this is not typical of most action plans, it does help to connect the goals of the individual to the goals of the organization.  

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTION PLAN 

Name: ___________________________________________

Position:_________________________________________

 

Briefly summarize the 360/other strength and gap feedback  you’ve received:

 

Identify 1-3  Competencies you will work on (from your 360° results):

Finding balance in delegation: what I must do vs. what is appropriate for my staff to do Managing Up, Across differing Business Units across Acme

 

Goals: Identify 1-3 goals that you are most passionate about working on.	Measures: How will each goal be measured (can be quantitative or qualitative)?	Target Date: Set a target date for each goal.
Achieve Delegation Balance	Feedback/Input received from my Manager & Coach Specific delegation examples/projects listed, considered and delegated Philosophical change in my expression (negative) of delegation Time becomes available to do higher level activities ; last minute stress to complete tasks diminished	February , 1, 2009
Upward Management Skills (cross functional orgs)	Specific feedback obtained from direct & next-level management Specific target(s) identified for me to gain exposure to in differing Business Units	June 1, 2009

 

Specific Actions:  What action steps can you take to achieve your goals?

1. Create a delegation philosophy to choose what elements are delegate “able”
2. Choose 1-2 objectives with quarterly targets for top 2 management potentials
3. Find two opportunities to promote my successes and help my area
4. Work with a specific Business Group on an initiative to help assist my “selling up” goals 

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