This document provides guidance on developing a career plan and influencing others to support your goals. It recommends understanding yourself, your options, and next steps. Key steps include creating a clear picture of your skills, interests, and values; exploring career options and industry changes; setting measurable goals; and identifying available resources and people to influence. The document advises putting together influence strategies, such as being assertive or offering incentives, to get support for your development plan and make it a reality. The overall process involves self-reflection, research, planning, and influencing others to take ownership of your career development.

1. Influencing Your Career

2. Career Goals

3. Career Goals
Persuade peers and managers to
give feedback.

4. Career Goals
Get your boss to agree to your
attending a new meeting to expand
your experience.

5. Career Goals
Get your boss to agree to a career
development discussion.

6. Career Goals
Establish informal mentors to build
future relationships.

7. Stage One
Understand the three steps of career
development.

8. Stage Two
Put together the needed influence
strategies.

9. Career Development

10. Career Development
• Understand yourself

11. Career Development
• Understand yourself
• Understand your options

12. Career Development
• Understand yourself
• Understand your options
• Understand your next steps

13. Career Development
Have a clear understanding of who you
are and what you bring to an
organization.

14. Understand Yourself
Create an accurate picture of yourself.

15. Understand Yourself
Identify key skills you use now and have
used in the past.

16. Understand Yourself
Use open-ended questions and then,
focused questions to get specific feedback.

17. Understand Yourself
Interests and values define who you are.

18. Understand Yourself
Ask yourself, “What do I want to learn?”

19. Understand Yourself
Ask yourself, “What has to happen to
prepare for this learning?”

20. Understand Yourself
Ask yourself, “What values are
driving my choices?”

21. Understand Yourself
Ask yourself, “What are my
strengths and weaknesses?”

22. Understand Yourself
Check how you see yourself with how
others see you.

23. Understand Yourself
Your reputation often determines
whether or not you’re chosen to work
on interesting projects.

24. Understand Your Options
Work with change to help achieve
personal goals.

25. Understand Your Options
Look into the future, see what’s coming,
be ready for changes, and harness the
potential to help you reach your goals.

26. Understand Your Options
Create multiple career goals.

27. Understand Your Options
Network within your organization and
the industry you work in.

28. Understand Your Options
Ask yourself, “What changes are
happening in my industry, organization,
work team and profession?”

29. Understand Your Options
Ask yourself, “What are my options?”

30. Understand Your Options
Ask yourself, “What are my next steps?”

31. Understand Your Options
Ask yourself, “What type of moves
can I make?”

32. Understand Your Options
Ask yourself, “How will I keep
growing in place?”

33. Understand Your Options
Ask yourself, “How will I network?”

34. Understand Your Options
Ask yourself, “Who are the people in
the industry I would like to meet and
speak with?”

35. Understand Your Options
Ask yourself, “Who are the people in
my organization I would like to learn
from?”

36. Understand Your Next Steps
Make a plan with each step, having
some amount of measurability.

37. Understand Your Next Steps
Have a definite time frame for each
step of your plan.

38. Understand Your Next Steps
Have a development conversation with
your supervisor or mentor.

39. Understand Your Next Steps
Gathering support for your plan is a
key link to achieving your goals.

40. Understand Your Next Steps
Write your goals out clearly.

41. Understand Your Next Steps
Think about what success looks like;
make it measurable.

42. Understand Your Next Steps
Identify what resources are available
in your organization to help you.

43. Understand Your Next Steps
Think about who you will want to
influence about your plan.

44. Influence Strategies

45. Influence Strategies
Put together the needed influence
strategies to make your
development plan a reality.

46. Influence Strategies
Use assertive behaviors when you
need to take a more direct
approach.

47. Influence Strategies
Offer incentives to make it easier
for the other person to do what you
are asking.

48. Influence Strategies
Lay out specific incentives.

49. Development Plans
Decide about what you want to influence.

50. Development Plans
Be specific and exact.

51. Development Plans
Decide whom you want to influence.

52. Development Plans
Decide what behaviors you should use.

53. Development Plans
Have a specific goal around possible
career movements or learning
opportunities.

54. Development Plans
Determine how you will measure success,
and what will have to happen.

55. Development Plans
Determine the resources that can
help you.

56. Development Plans
Determine who you will talk to.

57. Development Plans
Determine what action you’ll take,
and by when.

58. Development Plans
You are the main influencer of your
career.

59. Influencing Your Career