Contents of the Development Plan Items Screen
Use the fields in the Plan Item Details section to add a goal and the tasks, classes, or activities that must be completed to reach that goal. You can also perform actions like viewing the current plan details, adding a new plan, and managing all development plans.
Plan Info
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| Plan Name | This is the name that the plan creator gave the plan (for example, Presentation Skills). |
| For | This is the name of the employee for whom the plan was created. |
| Start Date | This is the date on which the employee should begin performing the tasks in the development plan. |
| Target Date | This is the date on which the employee should finish performing the tasks in the development plan. |
Plan Item Details
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| Goal Name | Enter a description for one of the objectives of the plan (for example, Increase Comfort with Public Speaking). | |
| Goal End Date | Select a date by which the employee should complete the activities associated with this objective. | |
| Completion | If the employee has already made progress toward this objective, enter the percentage of completion that the employee has achieved. For example, if an employee is already halfway toward this objective, move the slider to the 50% position or enter the number 50. | |
| Association | You can associate a development plan with an appraisal or a career path. For example, you can associate a development plan with the most recent annual appraisal if the development needs were brought forth as part of the appraisal process.
If appropriate, select an item from the Association drop-down list, which lists all of your career paths and active appraisal items. |
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| Goals | Use this section to select the competencies and skills that this development item aims to develop.
You do not need to select any competencies or skills, but if you do, your choices determine the courses and other activities that are listed in the Recommendation section below. |
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| Competencies | Select one or more competencies that this development item aims to develop. Once you select a competency, you can see a more detailed description of the competency on the Development Plan Suggestions tab. | |
| Skills | Select the skills that this development item aims to develop. | |
| Recommendations | The
Recommendations section has up to four tabs:
Courses,
Development Plan Suggestion,
Library Resources, and
Mentors. You may not see all of these tabs if your company does not use all of the Deltek Talent Management modules.
The recommendations are based on the competencies and skills that you selected above, if your Administrator has enabled Development Plan Suggestions. You can select as many or as few recommendations as you wish to include in the development plan. |
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| Courses | You can select recommended courses to include in the development plan.
You can also click Find and Add Courses to find courses that are not in the recommended list and add them to the development plan. |
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| Development Plan Suggestions | This tab provides descriptions of the main factors that make up each of the competencies that you selected. For example, the competency called Action Orientation might include descriptions for urgency, planning, and commitment.
Select the descriptions that best apply to this development plan. The descriptions will be included in the text of the development plan. |
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| Library Resources | This tab lists resources in your organization’s learning library that are relevant to the competencies and skills that you selected. These might be books, videos, or other materials.
Select the materials to include in the development plan. |
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| Mentors | This tab lists the employees in your organization who have offered to be mentors and who have the competencies or skills that you selected above.
Select the mentors to include in the development plan. |
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| Other Actions | Use the
Other Actions
section to enter development items that are not addressed in the Recommendations tabs. This section has two fields, which do not need to be related to each other:
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Actions
The buttons on the Development Plan Items screen perform the following functions.
| Button | Action | Description |
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| View Plan | Click this button to see the View Development Plan screen, with all of the information and items that you have added so far.
Any courses or library resources display as hyperlinks.
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| Add Development Plan | Click this button to create a new development plan. | |
| Click this button to see the Development Plans screen, which lists all of the development plans that your manager has created for you and you have created for yourself. |