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Professional Development Needs

Identifies employees' skill gaps, preferred learning formats, barriers and goals to plan professional development.

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Questions in this template

Your Role

  1. This survey helps us plan training and development that fits your needs. It takes about five minutes.

  2. Which best describes your position?

    Choose one:

    • Individual contributor
    • Team lead
    • Manager
    • Senior leader

  3. How long have you been in your current role?

    Choose one:

    • Less than 1 year
    • 1-2 years
    • 3-5 years
    • More than 5 years

  4. Roughly how many hours of training or development did you complete in the past 12 months?

    A number from 0 to 500

Skills to Develop

  1. How much do you need to develop each skill area for your current or next role?

    • Role-specific technical skills
    • Digital and data skills
    • Communication
    • Leadership and people management
    • Project management
    • Problem solving

    For each row: choose one:

    • No need
    • Low need
    • Moderate need
    • High need

  2. Which one of these areas is your top development priority?

    Choose one from a list:

    • Role-specific technical skills
    • Digital and data skills
    • Communication
    • Leadership and people management
    • Project management
    • Problem solving

Learning Preferences and Barriers

  1. Which learning formats work best for you? Select all that apply.

    Choose any that apply:

    • In-person workshops
    • Live online sessions
    • Self-paced e-learning
    • Coaching or mentoring
    • Stretch assignments on the job
    • Conferences and events

  2. What stops you from taking part in development activities? Select all that apply.

    Choose any that apply:

    • Lack of time
    • Cost
    • Lack of manager support
    • Few relevant options
    • Unclear career benefit
    • Other
    • Nothing stops me

  3. What else gets in the way?

    Asked only when q_barriers.outcome is not None and q_barriers.outcome & 32 != 0

    Open answer

  4. How many hours a month could you realistically spend on development?

    A number from 0 to 40

Support and Goals

  1. When did you last discuss your development with your manager?

    Choose one:

    • Within the past 6 months
    • More than 6 months ago
    • Never

  2. How satisfied are you with the development support the organization provides?

    Choose one:

    • Very dissatisfied
    • Dissatisfied
    • Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
    • Satisfied
    • Very satisfied

  3. What career goal would you most like development support for over the next two years?

    Open answer