Leadership
Gain leadership experience by leading a development team to deliver a project to schedule, budget and stakeholder satisfaction.
Management
Develop strategic planning competencies by creating a technology roadmap for sales and gaining stakeholder approvals for plan.
Communication
Increase visibility in the organization by presenting information to stakeholders and other teams. Target: Complete 3 presentations in Q2.
Influencing
Improve influencing capabilities by developing and pushing for project proposals, business cases and budgets. Target: Represent team in the annual budget approval process.
Productivity
Increase my coding productivity by working from home 3 days a week. Target: Complete billing automation code to schedule.
Work Quality
Improve my logo designs though practice and participation in design conferences and workshops. Target: Increase client acceptance of final design submissions to 77%.
Customer Service
Improve listening and relationship building skills to better serve the customer. Target: improve customer satisfaction to 84% for my service interactions.
Conflict Resolution
Attend a conflict resolution workshop to better deal with dissatisfied customers and other situations that may generate conflict. Target: gain experience reacting calmly and professionally to dissatisfied customers. Measurement: resolve five or more such interactions with a positive outcome.
Sales
Develop in-depth knowledge of the product and industry and build an extensive network of relationships with leaders, creative talent, engineers and customer influencers. Goal: attend 3-5 conferences, workshops or industry events in 2035.
Marketing
Read books about persuasion, advertising and marketing. Target: read 3-5 books per quarter. Goal: improve copywriting talents to increase conversion rate to 2% or greater for my offers.
Analysis
Improve business analysis capabilities by attending _____ training.
Software Development
Develop software design skills by delivering the designs for assigned projects. Target: deliver 3 designs in 2035.
Administration
Improve organization skills by preparing meeting agendas and minutes. Target: create agendas and minutes for the weekly architectural review board meeting. Measure: feedback from stakeholders.
Relationship Building
Develop more relationships and visibility across the organization. Target: attend cross-departmental meetings such as lunch and learn sessions.
Career Change
Gain experience in sales meetings as a step towards transferring to sales in the long term. Target: attend sales meetings as a product expert.
Know-how
Take elevator repair courses and complete certification. Target: attain qualification to service elevators.
Time Management
Improve time management and productivity by reducing time spent in meetings. Carefully control calendar and require meetings to be well managed. Target: reduce overall time in meetings by 20% to focus on core work such as coding.
