Growth Plan is part of 15Five's Career Hub feature where employees can create, track, and view their personal career growth goals and associated actions. Growth Plan enables employees to drive their own career growth, increasing meaning and purpose on an individual level and employee retention at an organizational level.
In this article, you will learn…
- What are growth plans? 🌱
- How do growth plans interact with other 15Five features? 🌐
- Visibility 👀
- Related articles 📖
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) ❓
Access and availability
⛔️ Required access to Career Hub.
👥 This article is relevant to all roles.
📦 This feature is available in the Perform and Total Platform pricing packages.
What are growth plans? 🌱
The "growth plans" tool in 15Five's Career Hub feature allows employees and their managers to create career goals and break them down into trackable actions. Growth Plan interacts with other main features within the 15Five platform, keeping goals and actions top-of-mind for employees and managers.
This tool is our answer to common issues that organizations and employees face today, including "What is my career plan?", "How do I get there?", and "How do I track progress?". With growth plans in Career Hub, employees can determine, plan, and track their career growth: all within 15Five.
With Growth Plans, the following actions are possible:
- Employees can create goals and break them down into measurable actions. Employees can set deadlines for their goals, as well as opt-in for in-app reminder notifications to make sure they are making progress as planned.
- Employees and their Managers can view goal progress in the 'Growth Plan' tab of Career Hub.
- Employees can update their goal progress from within their Check-ins or the Objectives tab.
- Admins can run reports on goals and goal progress from 15Five's Reporting tab.
How do growth plans interact with other 15Five features? 🌐
Growth Plan is the last tab in 15Five's Career Hub feature and is intrinsically tied to the rest of the Career Hub feature. It's difficult for employees who haven’t discovered what they want in their career to come up with their career plan and set career goals, and uncertainty and lack of clarity can lead to a lack of motivation to start working on the plan. That said, before using Growth Plan, it's important for employees and their managers to go through the initial Role clarity, Strengths, and Vision tabs of Career Hub, as well as the 'Career Paths' tab. All in all, Career Hub houses everything your organization needs to support employees in their career growth journeys from beginning to end.
Employees can view the growth goals and create new ones from the Best-Self Review® Summary page.
Goals and actions created in the Growth Plan are shown as self-development objectives across the 15Five app and vice versa.
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Employees and managers can collaborate on the growth plan using comments and adding to 1-on-1s.
Visibility 👀
An employee's "Growth plan" is visible to them and their manager. While account admins can't view employees' "Growth plan" tabs, they can download growth plan-specific reports that contain information about career goals created as part of growth plans.
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- Create and manage a career goal using growth plans
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) ❓
Yes! Admins and managers can export the growth plans data.
Career goals are only intended to be used to document and track actions that an individual is taking to further their career. They're made up of actions, which can only be measured using "complete" and "not complete" metrics.
Self-development objectives can also be career goals, and they can also encompass more personal goals. They're made up of key results, which can be measured using additional metrics such as percentage and number. Learn more.
Functionally, career goals in growth plans are the same as self-development objectives— only with less detail.
Goals created in your growth plan will also show up in your objectives. They’ll show up as self-development objectives, and they have similar components like actions and statuses.