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Employee Development Plan

For managers, a development plan for someone in your team, with practice on real work, the support you'll give, check-ins and evidence of progress.

Works in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini8 of 20 in HR promptsUpdated 18 Oct 2026
  • hr
  • people-operations
  • workplace
  • intermediate

The prompt

Prompt · 5 blanksBlanks in capitals
Help me, as a manager, build a development plan for someone in my team: EMPLOYEE ROLE. I'll agree it with them, so write it to share.

Use this:
- The skill to build, and where its absence shows in their work today: SKILL GAP
- Why it matters now (a new responsibility, a promotion, feedback): REASON AND GOAL
- Time and budget available, e.g. hours a week, training money: TIME AND BUDGET
- What the employee has said they want from it: EMPLOYEE'S VIEW (optional)

Write:
1. A goal in one sentence: what they'll be able to do, and by when.
2. Three stages over the plan's length, each with 2-3 activities, mostly practice on real work (stretch tasks, shadowing, leading a piece of work), with courses or reading as support.
3. What I'll do as their manager at each stage: coaching, introductions, feedback, protected time, removing work to make room.
4. Check-ins: how often, and three questions to ask at each.
5. Evidence of progress: 3-4 things we could both observe, not just "completed a course".
6. Risks that could stall the plan and how we'll handle them.

Rules:
- Keep it realistic for TIME AND BUDGET; don't add paid training I haven't said we can fund.
- Frame the gap as a skill to build, not a fault in the person, and keep it about work.
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Example

EMPLOYEE ROLE
Senior engineer, moving towards a tech lead role in a team of six
SKILL GAP
Delegation and giving feedback; still takes the hardest tickets and rewrites others' code in review
REASON AND GOAL
Tech lead role opens in April; needs to lead the team's next release without doing most of the work
TIME AND BUDGET
3 hours a week for six months; £600 training budget
EMPLOYEE'S VIEW
Keen to lead but worried about losing touch with the code

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