Career Advancement Plan
Build a 12-month plan for scope, visibility, skills, and relationships that leads to the next level.
What Career Advancement Plan gets you.
By the end of this upgrade, you will have a written decision tool and next-action plan for career advancement plan, built from your real situation rather than generic advice.
- Target role or career question
- Current resume or work history
- Time available this quarter
- A notes document
Run the upgrade.
- 01
Define the decision behind Career Advancement Plan
Write the exact career decision this upgrade should help you make and the time horizon for making it. Separate what you know from what you are assuming.
- 02
Gather evidence before forming a view
Collect current role requirements, examples from your own work, and first-hand information from people close to the target. Record the source and date for each important fact.
- 03
Compare the current state with the target
Put today's responsibilities, skills, results, and constraints beside the target state. Mark each item as demonstrated, developing, unknown, or not relevant.
- 04
Choose the highest-leverage next moves
Select no more than three actions that reduce the largest gaps or uncertainty. Give each an owner, a due date, and a definition of done.
- 05
Put the plan on the calendar
Schedule the research, conversations, practice, or learning time needed for the first actions. Add a decision date rather than leaving the plan open-ended.
- 06
Write the one-page version
Summarize the result of Career Advancement Plan on one page so you can use it in future career decisions and conversations.
- A one-page career advancement plan document exists
- The target and current state are described with evidence
- The next three actions have owners and dates
- A review or decision date is scheduled
Quarterly or when your target changes
- Review assumptions against new role information
- Close completed actions and add evidence
- Reprioritize only when the target or constraints change