Taking time to discuss your direct report’s professional needs or aspirations for growth with the use of an IDP can help them reach short and long-term career goals, as well as improve current job performance.

Using an individual development plan:

• supports gaining clarity of career development goals
• helps create an individually tailored action plan for developing specific competencies (and any knowledge and skills) that will improve a direct report’s performance.
  
  

This toolkit will help you, as a manager to:

• understand your role in helping your people create their IDP
• provide your people with templates to get them started
• clarify the aspirations of your direct reports and how you might best invest in their development
• get some tips for the kinds of conversations you should be having with your people.

Are you looking for a toolkit that supports you to create your own IDP? The toolkit 'Individual Development plan: developing self' will be released in August. In the meantime, there are lots of useful resources in this toolkit to get you started.