Use these planning questions and documents to prompt you to think about your career vision and development requirements, and to prioritise and plan your 10 days of development activities. You will find it useful to do this before your Annual Review Conversation (ARC).

Tools

Reflect:

Consider our online reflective questions to help you think about your future career goals and needs.  You can also download a word version of our Professional Development Planner (doc) questions.

Review:

Skills audit (doc) – record and describe the skills and experience you already have and are yet to develop. 

Tools

Plan:

Skills development planner (doc) – make a plan to use the 10 days development time, linked to your career goals and skills development needs. 

Record:

10 days development record (doc) – a handy table to keep a record of your plans to share with your manager, mentor, or researcher developer.