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Development objectives are actionable plans to improve in your career, profession and role. This goes beyond your performance objectives to plan meaningful steps that bring you closer to your career goals. A common way to do this is to simply repackage your performance objectives to show how they will help you improve as a professional. Alternatively, you can identify side projects, training and experiences that you are planning to bring you closer to career goals. The following are illustrative examples.
Management| Goal | Gain experience in managing a budget. | | Objective | Plan, submit and control a budget for the ABC project by the end of Q1. | | Measurements | On time completion of budget, compliance to budget process, budget variance |
Project Management| Goal | Gain project management experience. | | Objective | Manage a challenging project and deliver to schedule and budget. | | Target date | end of Q2 | | Measurements | Schedule variance, budget variance, stakeholder feedback |
Training| Goal | Improve architecture and design skills. | | Objective | Complete architecture and design training. | | Target date | end of Q2 | | Measurement | Successful completion of training |
Professional Certification| Goal | Certify capabilities as a project manager | | Objective | Complete project management training and obtain professional certification by Q4. | | Measurement | Successful certification |
Strategy| Goal | Develop strategic planning abilities | | Objective | Develop and pitch a business case for a new product. | | Target date | end of Q3 | | Measurements | Successful completion of business case, feedback, approval of budget |
Leadership| Goal | Improve ability to influence and motivate teams and stakeholders. | | Objective | Lead the development team for the ABC project to represent the team with stakeholders, clear issues and deliver to commitments. | | Target date | End of year | | Measurements | Feedback from stakeholders and team members, on time delivery of commitments |
Time Management| Goal | Improve time management skills. | | Objective | Experiment with a new format to cut weekly team meeting to 30 minutes from 90 minutes without losing any value. Measure results and improve. | | Target date | start in Q1 | | Measurements | Time consumed by weekly meeting, participant feedback |
| Goal | Improve work habits to increase my throughput. | | Objective | Work from home one day a week where my environment is free from distraction to deliver at least 1000 lines of a code in a day. | | Target date | start in Q1 | | Measurements | Throughput in lines of code. |
Creativity| Goal | Develop creative abilities. | | Objective | Work to improve my designs to significantly exceed client expectations. | | Target date | start in Q1, ongoing | | Measurements | Client feedback |
Communication| Goal | Improve communication skills. | | Objective | Take the lead to resolve production incidents by coordinating efforts across technology teams and business units. | | Target date | end of Q4 | | Measurements | Mean time to repair |
| Goal | Gain experience in public speaking. | | Objective | Complete two presentations by the end of Q2. | | Measurements | Successful completion of two presentations, participant feedback. |
Technical Skills| Goal | Learn the ABC cloud platform API. | | Objective | Complete training and write code that uses the ABC cloud platform API. | | Target date | end of Q4 | | Measurements | Completion of training, check in code that uses the ABC API. |
Customer Satisfaction| Goal | Improve customer service skills. | | Objective | Carefully tailor service to each customer by listening to their problems and reading their emotions and needs. | | Target date | end of Q2 | | Measurement | Customer feedback, customer satisfaction |
Decision Making| Goal | Improve decision making skills by developing innovative ways to measure alternatives. | | Objective | Develop risk scores for projects to incorporate the risk of failure in funding approvals. | | Measurement | Successful development of risk scores for at least 70% of project proposals in the Q4 planning cycle. |
Problem Solving| Goal | Improve troubleshooting skills by gaining experience in resolving incidents. | | Objective | Participant in production support to resolve incidents. | | Target date | end of Q4 | | Measurements | Number of incidents resolved, mean time to repair |
Analysis| Goal | Improve analysis skills. | | Objective | Produce a gap analysis to identify inefficiencies in the order fulfillment process. | | Target date | end of Q3 | | Measurement | Reduce the turnaround time of the order fulfillment process by at least 10%. |
Planning| Goal | Develop project planning skills. | | Objective | Deliver a project charter for the ABC project by Q2. | | Measurements | Completion of project charter, stakeholder sign off |
NotesDevelopment objectives are typically designed to be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound, or SMART.Development objectives are also known as professional development objectives, personal development objectives and career development objectives.
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