About this template

Employee development plans allow organizations to support employees with their career goals and ambitions. Both employers and employees benefit from these plans. This template will allow employees to outline their goals and give employers an idea of the direction of their employees and how to support them.

This template covers information about:

• What is an employee development plan?
• Defining short-term goals
• Defining mid-term goals
• Defining long-term goals

This template is for:

• HR Managers
• L&D Managers
• Team leads or managers
• Anyone who needs to train people about this topic

How to use and customize this template

This employee development plan template covers the most universal and crucial information on this topic. We added some empty sections and question fields that you can customize to make the organization’s template relevant. If you don’t need to and want to use the template like it is now, you are free to chuck these parts. In that case, the only thing you need to do is change details like your organization’s name and the training duration.

Feel like changing the template up entirely? You are welcome to. You can change anything about the template. It’s also possible to remove sections, add new ones, add additional questions, and add different content. Keep in mind that you need to define learning objectives for each new or changed section. Our advice? Learn how our templates work, then turn it into whatever works best for you.