Skill Up: Employing Individual Development Plans to Advance Your Career and Engage Your Direct Reports with Emily Baxt ’92

How can you move forward in your career when promotion opportunities aren’t immediately available? Managers, how can you keep your best employees engaged? Individual development plans provide a way to measure career progress and increase engagement by helping employees identify where they want to grow, and the steps they need to take. Emily Baxt, career coach and principal at Baxt Consulting, will discuss how to create individual development plans to get you and your direct reports excited about work again.

Through this session you will:

• Better understand how individual development plans can help increase motivation and engagement
• Design a framework to discuss professional goals with your manager or your direct reports
• Learn to how to create metrics to effectively measure professional growth and progress