How are career development plans and performance improvement plans different?
The career development plan is designed to assist the employee in enhancing their performance, skills, or abilities. A development plan seeks to help the employee grow developmentally to further their career opportunities or broaden their knowledge base. Alternatively, a performance improvement plan addresses performance issues that are typically addressed in a performance evaluation. An improvement plan identifies the performance, skills, and abilities that need to be corrected or enhanced and sets up guidelines with goals and timelines for meeting the plan.
