Development Hacks: creating your career plan

In this final episode in our mini-series of tips and ideas for personal development, we bring different ideas together and consider how this fits into a practical and inspiring career plan. Have you built into the plan your interests and strengths, and captured ideas where you are curious to find out more as possible future roles and directions? What has your experience to date told you about the environments you enjoy most?  We discuss how you can measure progress and also the importance of considering the ‘pace’ you want your next phase to be – to avoid burnout and to enable you to balance your work and other life goals. Finally, we explore briefly the future world of work, changed by the current pandemic, and how this might help you to plan ahead. Questions to consider:·       How much ‘stretch’ am I giving myself currently?  Do I need to slow down, or am I achieving the right balance?·       How will I know if the next career phase I am planning will be a success – what are my metrics and the learning I want from that? Resources:·       Understanding your priorities: your ‘big rocks’: https://www.forbes.com/sites/hillennevins/2020/01/21/what-are-your-big-rocks/  ·       Looking at your career over the long-term, an example from the legal sector and managing your ‘pace’ of development: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/programmes/executive-education/custom-executive-education/creating-competitive-advantage/interview-dame-janet-gaymer