Questions · design a specific process
how to build and operate a development plan
Build capability through relevant work, deliberate practice, feedback, support, and evidence—not a catalog of courses. Connect an important capability need or aspiration to an operating outcome and run a supported learning cycle until evidence justifies adaptation, transfer, continuation, or closure.
draft reference — not a fitted standard
Process steps
- 01
Frame the capability need
Define why development matters before selecting an activity.
- 02
Define capability and transfer evidence
Specify what useful learning would look like in relevant work.
- 03
Design the development path
Combine the smallest useful set of learning methods around actual capability-building.
- 04
Secure opportunity and support
Make the organization’s development commitments operational.
- 05
Approve and acknowledge the plan
Create one realistic, controlled development agreement.
- 06
Practice, apply, and receive feedback
Build capability through cycles of action, evidence, reflection, and adjustment.
- 07
Evaluate transfer and decide the next state
Close or continue the plan through evidence rather than elapsed time or activity completion.
Related measures
outcome
Capability transfer to work
Is the intended capability demonstrated and sustained in relevant work?
quality
Development evidence completeness
Does each disposition include relevant capability, transfer, support, barrier, and guardrail evidence?
cycle-time
Time to meaningful practice
How long after plan approval does the learner receive the first relevant supported work opportunity?
adoption
Development-plan operation
Are planned practice, feedback, support, and review cycles occurring?
exceptions
Development barrier pattern
Which opportunity, access, workload, support, method, or work barriers recur?
guardrail
Access, burden, safety, dignity, and promise guardrail
Does development create unequal opportunity, inaccessible participation, unsafe stretch, excessive unpaid burden, retaliation concern, or misleading promises?