"Where do you envision your professional journey leading you in the next one to two years? What objectives and aspirations do you have?
How to work with Growth Plan
Cinode's Growth Plan feature is designed for both consultants and managers. As a consultant, you can articulate your career ambitions, establish and monitor your skills. These insights can serve as a foundation for your self-development strategy and facilitate meaningful discussions with your manager or team leader.
For managers, this tool offers a comprehensive view of your team members' growth plans. It enables you to understand their career aspirations and support their skills development in alignment with organizational goals - viewed in a report!
✅ Create multiple growth plans. For instance, one could focus on objectives pertinent to your current role, while another might concentrate on personal development.
✅ Add tasks linked to skill goals to track progress and create a plan.
To explore the various components and specifics of your growth plan, simply click on the tab Growth Plan.
Under Growth Plan you have two tabs:
See your own growth plans
See growth plans that are accessible to you (managers)
Create a Growth Plan
1. Go to your profile - or an employees profile
2. Click on the tab 'Growth plans'
3. Click on the green button 'Add growth plan' if it is your first Growth plan otherwise click on +.
4. Fill in the details:
Select a title
End date
Accessible to (optional) - add one or several persons that you want to give access to for making sure that the goal is completed.
The only people that can view and edit these plans are yourself and the persons that you have given access.
5. Click on 'Add a skill goal' or 'Add from skill set' to further specify the skills that you want to attain.
☝️ If you choose 'add from skill set' you can add skill goals by choosing skills from your company's defined skill sets or you can set a goal for a new skill or for any of your existing skills by pressing 'add a skill goal.
5.1 Select a skill that you want to improve or attain. For example 'Project Manager'. (Once you've added a skill/set of skills you will see your current level listed in the growth plan)
5.2 Set an end date.
5.3 Select a target level
5.4 Optional: Add a note
6. To add more skills, click the green + button next to "Skill goals." You can edit or remove goals in the growth plan overview.
Task in Growth Plan
Add tasks linked to skill goals to track progress and create a plan.
Edit or remove a skill goal by clicking the three dots next to it.
Other Goals
Do you want to add a goal that is not related to a particular skill?
7. Add 'Other goals" by clicking on 'Add a goal'. Other goals can, for example, be goals related to your self-development.
7.1 Add a title (for example Mentorship course), goal date, status, and a note - click 'add'
'Other goals' will appear in your growth plan as a to-do list. Each goal status can be upgraded as you go; 'In progress' or 'Done'.
8. Lastly, add a note to your growth plan. Here you can specify your strategy moving forward when you plan on completing the actions specified in your growth plan.
If you've given access to a colleague/manager/team manager, you can specify who's responsible for what, and what kind of support you need in order to reach your goals.
Recommendations of what to add
We will give you some recommendations on how you can think when adding skills to your Growth Plan.
You can have the same thoughts as when you add skills for a project in your resume, think very broadly and in different categories such as;
Role, skills you had in your project? ( example Project Manager)
Methods and processes, skills that you have worked with? (example Project management - Note that project management and project manager are different skills and not synonyms, so you will need to add them both.
Techniques, which techniques did you work with?, (Example Javascript )
Platforms, what platforms did you use?, (Example Microsoft SQL Server )
Industry, in which industries did you work, (Example Software industry )
To find inspiration, you can go to Reports > Competencies and filter on categories you are able to view different categories that are used in Cinode.
If we go back to the question of how many skills or what skills to add to the Growth plan the answer is;
You can add as many skills in your growth plan that you think are suitable and reachable. If you are talking about an ongoing/upcoming project in a Growth plan you can think of the categories you are using such as, what role are you working with (for example Java developer), what kind of technology are you working with (for example Java) etc.
