Support your employee to better prepare for their Development Conversation

The most useful development conversations are shared conversations—not something a manager prepares for and delivers to an employee.

This free reflection worksheet helps employees pause and think about their development before meeting with their leader. It provides practical questions to help them reflect on what is working, where they would like to grow and what development opportunities could be most useful.

Send the worksheet to your employee before your development conversation and invite them to complete it in their own time.

It helps create shared ownership, gives you both a useful starting point and reduces the pressure to arrive with a perfectly defined career plan.

Looking for more support?

The Confident Leader Development Conversations Toolkit gives leaders a complete, step-by-step process for preparing, leading and documenting meaningful development conversations—including practical scripts, prompts, 70/20/10 development ideas and an editable development plan.