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Overview

Personal Development Plan is a Program to encourage Self-Growth. Each crew define their own Personal Goal and Action Plan.

Key Question

How to Identify My Goal ? How to Translate Goal into Action Plan ?

  • 🎯 The goal of this article

    • Ensure everyone have personal goal, and action plan to achieve it.
    • Align personal goal with company needs.

  • 🤷🏻 If I have further question about this article, who can I reach out to?

    Please contact: Fachri Akbar (fachri@agate.id)

Personal Development Plan

PDP is a tool to help crew grow. It is entirely up to each crew how they want to use it to help themselves. However, we want to ensure that everyone have goal to achieve, which is why PDP Form is Mandatory to submit.

❓ How do I identify my goal?

You can identify your goal by doing SWOT Analysis, and translate them into Action Plan using SMART Framework.

SWOT Analysis

SWOT Analysis is an Analysis Approach to define a goal :

  • Strength : What are you good at ? What do you like ? What do you want to excel at ?
  • Weakness : What are you lacking ? What things do you need to improve ?
  • Opportunity : What opportunity you have in work or outside of work ?
  • Threat : What obstacle might prevent you to achieve your goal ?

SMART Framework

SMART Framework is a methodology to achieve a goal :

  • Specific : Define your goal to be more specific and less abstract
  • Measurable : Find a way to measure your progress, and make your goal more tangible
  • Achievable : Assess whether your goal is realistic and feasible
  • Relevant : Ensure that this goal align with your long term goal, or your situation
  • Time Bound : Set a deadline for this goal

PDP Execution

Implementation Step:

  1. Crew Fill PDP Form
  2. Crew Ask Mentor to Review and Approve their PDP before being submitted (review can be done via chat only)
  3. If crew is unsure of their PDP, they can Request Mentoring Session with their mentor to help them define their PDP.
  4. PDP is Approved by Mentor, and Submitted to Tech Department
  5. PDP is Reviewed by Tech Department
  6. If there are any concern, Tech Dept will inform the crew and mentor to Revise their PDP Form
  7. If all is well, PDP will be Approved by Tech Department

Guideline

In this guideline, you will be shown how to fill the PDP Doc, step-by-step style.

  • Get the PDP Doc
  • Change the header
  • Fill PDP Identification
  • Fill PDP Technical Competency

Get the PDP Doc

Get PDP doc from [this site](https://agatestudio.sharepoint.com/Private Materials/Forms/AllItems.aspx?newTargetListUrl=%2FPrivate Materials&viewpath=%2FPrivate Materials%2FForms%2FAllItems%2Easpx&viewid=1d051d63%2Da583%2D426c%2D86c7%2D0b6046c6a58f&id=%2FPrivate Materials%2FKnight%2FPDP) and download PDP-CrewName.docx or open this document then don't forget to save it by download it as copy.

  1. Go [this link](https://agatestudio.sharepoint.com/Private Materials/Forms/AllItems.aspx?newTargetListUrl=%2FPrivate Materials&viewpath=%2FPrivate Materials%2FForms%2FAllItems%2Easpx&viewid=1d051d63%2Da583%2D426c%2D86c7%2D0b6046c6a58f&id=%2FPrivate Materials%2FKnight%2FPDP), there will be 2 documents inside the PDP folder:

    • PDP-Example.docx is used for example.
    • PDP-CrewName.docx is used as template.

  2. Open PDP-CrewName.docx.

  3. Save as with this format: PDP-Name-yyyymm.docx where yyyy is year and mm is month all in number.

  4. Now, before working on the document, go back to the previous page, move your PDP document to your folder. You can move your document by simply drag and drop the file to the destination folder.

Change header doc

  1. Click button Header on the top right of the page.

  2. Change [Crew Name] with your name.

    Default template

    Default template

    After changed

    After changed

  3. This section only help you if you use browser to open it, otherwise, please don't embarrass yourself by asking for help.

Fill PDP Identification

  • Crew Name: Fill it with your name.
  • Mentor: Optional, can be empty, fill it with your mentor name only if you need mentor to help you fill this document.
  • Feedback Session: Fill it with the date when the mentorship happen. Use yyyy-mm-dd for the date format.
  • Reviewer: Ignore this box. This should be filled by reviewer.

Fill PDP Technical competency

  • How's previous plan? (The result from previous plan, challenges found and how to overcome it)
    • If this is your first time, then leave it empty.
    • List up your previous goal and action plans that works. If you can—not if you want, give link to the result or just try to explain briefly about it.
    • Describe goals and action plans that not works and failed to be achieved. What are the challenges that failed to be assessed in the previous plan, how you try to handle it, etc.
    • Goals are not limited in technical competency, but also can be general competency, leadership competency, management competency, character development/culture alignment, etc.
  • What is your current objective? (Be more specific to your goal)
    • This should be your main focus in developing your skill tree in your career path. You can start by asking yourself what do you think you'll become in the next few years, after 5 years, 10 years, and so on?
    • Remember to align your objective whit Agate needs. See Why you choose that objective? for more explanation.
    • Please consider your this activity in your product. If you think your objective takes more than 3 months because of your busyness, maybe you should break it down to make it more doable.
    • You can start by doing something small, little by little, step by step, according to the your competency checklist that needs to be fulfilled.
  • Why you choose that objective? (What make that goal aligned with Agate?)
    • Remember to align your objective with Agate needs. For example to help you, you can align your goal with your product needs or competency checklist (what competency you want to learn in this plan, the competency checklist itself has been aligned to what Agate needs).
    • You may make some argument why this goal was aligned, but then those arguments will be reviewed first by mentor and if necessary by technical department, before you can start take the action.
    • For crew that already fill up competency checklist before, you can go to [this link](https://agatestudio.sharepoint.com/sites/Tavern/Contribution Review/Forms/My Contribution Review.aspx) to check your own competency checklist. For new crew, you can check this link for new competency checklist.
  • What are your action plan? (How you're going to achieve it?)
    • Point out your plan (with brief explanation if necessary).
    • To help you, you can create your own breakdown task to give you some insight about more detailed info and make your action plan more measurable.

Conclusion

This whole thing will be the tracker document, to review not only for the crew, but also the mentor. From this PDP document we hope we can create better environment for developing our talent.

See Also

You can read more about how Agate's talent system by visiting the page below:

Crew Role

Crew Grade System

Career Path Roadmap

You can read more about the detail Competency for each Role Capability by visiting the page below.

Role Competency

Competency List

Define the competency and assess your skills by visiting the page below

Competency Mapping

Experience Level

Mastery Level

You can Plan your skill development or apply for Mentorship program to have a mentor to help you grow your skill and your career.

Personal Development Plan

Mentorship Program

You can apply for Grade Up process if you think you are ready for promotion to higher grade.

Grade Up Review

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