 1. **What can I do to best support you as your manager?**
 2. **What should I do more or less as your manager?**
 3. **What do you like most about our team?**
 4. **What are opportunities for the team to do better?**
 5. **What motivates/demotivates you?**
 6. **What do you think the best way of recognizing people is?**
 7. **What do you think the best way of recognizing people is?**
 8. **Experience: What development opportunities will you pursue in your day-to-day role?**
    - ***E.g. Deliver on project ...***

    - ***E.g. Practice writing a technical spec***

    - ***E.g. Present a topic at Town Hall***
 9. ***Exposure:  How will you learn from those around you?***
    - ***(This can be from within your team or outside of your team such as mentors)***

    - ***E.g. Meet and collaborate with ....***

    - ***E.g. Read technical spec from a mentor..***
10. ***Education: What structured or formal learning will you take?***
    - ***E.g. Take a bootcamp class on Java***

    - ***E.g. Take a machine learning bootcamp***
11. **What do you want to achieve? What is your developmental goal?**
12. **What skills will help you be a tech lead?**
13. **How do you want to improve collaboration / communication skills ?**
14. **What is the expectation at the next level?**
15. **What technologies are you interested in?**
16. **What product areas are you interested in?**
17. **What resources, support or training can help you get there? What can your manager do to help?**
18. **When do you plan to complete this goal?**
19. **What objective measures will indicate that you achieved your goal? What will be the benefits of this change for you?**
20. **What are your long term ambitions (3 years)?**
    - **e.g. Get promoted to next level**
21. **What are your career goals by the end of this year (1 year)?**
    - **e.g. Be a subject matter expert in some domain areas**

    - **e.g. a specific performance rating**

Staff engineers are extremely vital to any engineering team, viewing the landscape from the overall team charter level instead of individual projects.

Advice on Career Plan Questions