So you've got your PDP, and you work on this regularly, you invest time and effort into it. And you review it on a recurring basis to make sure that it stays accurate. And on the top of your mind. Now, I would like to talk about building up a career plan. This is also something where your HR business partner may help you. And not every company does this.

So what I encourage you to do is very simple, actually. But it's just about planning your career ahead. Where do you want to go? Not just next, but the role after the next one? And where are you going to be in five years? And maybe even Where do you want to be in 10 years from now?

Build up a career plan that shows the progression that you would like to perform in this company or in your career in general? Yes. And it's going to be probably different in reality, and when you look back on your career plan and what has actually happened, there's a high probability that it's different It's not the point. I once sat down with the vice president of the footsie company. And I asked him, you know, what, what could have affected his career and made me even more successful? And he said, Well, it's clearly one thing.

It's the fact that I didn't know I wanted to be a VP. And if I had known I wanted to be a VP, I would have gotten there quicker. So what is it that you want to achieve? What is the type of role that you want to get? Make sure it's written and make sure you can present this to anyone who is asking? When you will sit down with senior leaders with HR with your manager, it will help you to communicate a clear message of who you are and what you want to achieve.

This is extremely powerful, and we're going to see this in another lesson. The other thing I would like to encourage you to put on your career plan is around your strength and your motivators. Because sometimes it's quite difficult to know exactly what jobs you want to do next? Yeah. So, look at your strengths and your motivators and use them as a compass to understand better, what type of roles might suit you best. In order to learn about your strengths, I recommend a tool called the Strengths Finder survey.

If you buy the book on strengthsfinder, they will give you a link to an online survey where by filling in this questionnaire, you will get a detailed report on what your biggest trends are in the corporate environment. And I found this very useful. It's actually widely used in the corporate environment. So that's a worthwhile investment. And by the way, I think that if you talk about it with HR, they may even support you in this initiative and pay for it. So why don't you give it a go?

It will show people how passionate you are about your PDP, which is back to the previous lesson, and it will increase your visibility which is how career work in corporate Then you get your strength. Think also about your motivators. And you know here I'd like to encourage you to think about the following types of questions. So, do you like to work with a wide variety of people and engage with lots of stakeholders focusing on influencing skills? Or do you prefer to go in depth in some detail with a specific team where you build solid relationships? And where you work a little bit more independently?

So are you looking more to becoming a people leader, or more of a pillar? A solid experts that inspire others and that spends his time coaching and mentoring other people? So very different types of career. Do you like to work with external parties such as suppliers or customers? Or do you prefer to work internally? What type of division Do you think suits you best?

Is it more sales and marketing? Is it more fun? Finance, HR, or IoT, and the back office. So think about those big questions and start narrowing down your options in terms of career. And you know what, at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter if your career plan is right, because the point of your career plan is twofold. The first is, it's going to give you energy and empowerment, to move forward and to take action.

And the second is it will trigger quality and inspiring discussions with other people. Because there is nothing so valuable as sitting down with a senior leader and presenting them your career plan and asking them what do you think? Yeah. What's your view on my career plan and where do you see me going? And using a career plan for this will create an impression back to visibility of working with someone who is mature, who is very concerned about his future, or her future, and someone who is passionate about personal development, and growing, and this will be highly recognized in a corporate environment. So go ahead and create your own career plan.

I'm just going to share an example of what I've done in the past so so that you get a starting point. But really, I encourage you to do it in your own format and in your own way, as long as it shows your strength, your motivators, and the examples of a career path that you would like to follow. In an ideal world. I think that's, that's great. And that's more than enough. Yeah.

So have fun, make it exciting because this is about you. Nobody has asked you to do this. You do it proactively because you enjoy it and because you're taking control of your career.