Welcome to DevelopmentCanvas.com – a site dedicated to helping you understand, build and leverage your:
- Individual Development Plan (IDP)
- Personal Development Plan (PDP)
- Career Development Plan (CDP), and help you avoid having a
- Performance Improvement Plan (PIP)!
So that you can achieve:
- Greater clarity on your career aspirations
- Desired impact on results and business impact
- A positive impact on people, teams and culture
- Clear and measurable goals
- Identification of behaviors to start and stop
- …and more!
Individual Development Plan vs. Personal Development Plan
The terms Individual Development Plan (IDP) and Personal Development Plan (PDP) are often used interchangeably. Regardless of this fact, sometimes people get very particular about the terminology. Some believe the IDP is for job improvement and the PDP is broader, or “more personal.”
In reality, the differences have more to do with the way specific companies and corporate leaders use the terms for their own internal purposes.
Individual Development Plan vs. Performance Improvement Plan
There is, however, a big difference between a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) and an Individual Development Plan — in most cases. Often, a PIP is a document that is used for formally documenting that an employee is not performing their job up to the standards required. For legal purposes, the PIP is primarily there for documenting performance issues.
In some less sophisticated companies, however, they might use an IDP when they mean to use the term PIP, and vice versa.
The Development Canvas
Now that we got that out of the way, the purpose of the Development Canvas (a tool developed by LeadPeople, LLC, with a trademark application pending), is for:
- Articulating Aspirations and Goals in leadership, business results, impact on people and culture, and career path
- Specifying clearly the business results and impact for the next 1-3 years
- Clarifying people-impact goals, including culture, teamwork and developing others
- Specifying particular competencies to develop, like technical capabilities
- Setting action items to accomplish, including books to read or courses to take
- Listing behaviors to stop and start doing (or do less and more of)
- Highlighting signature strengths and values
- Articulating development areas, challenges and potential derailers
- Stating purpose at work and in life