Personal template · 28 topics
Career plan mind map template
A career plan mind map with your strengths, non-negotiables, next role, skill gaps, people and milestones, to decide your next move.

Who it is for
- A professional thinking about a promotion or a change of field.
- A graduate choosing between first job options.
- Someone returning to work who wants a clear set of next steps.
How to use it
- Open the template and write your current role or field in the central topic.
- Be honest under Proof of strengths and Non-negotiables, then describe a next role that fits them.
- Fill Milestones with actions you can start this month, and review them every quarter.
The outline
Every topic in the template, as it opens in the editor.
Career plan
- Today
- My role and what fills my week
- Work that gives me energy
- Work that drains it
- Proof of strengths
- Results I can point to
- What colleagues come to me for
- Non-negotiables
- What I need from work
- Lines I will not cross
- Next role
- Title and kind of company
- Pay or lifestyle I am aiming for
- Team and manager I want
- Skill gaps
- A skill the next role demands
- Course, book or project to learn it
- A skill I want for myself
- Where I can practise it
- A skill the next role demands
- People
- Someone two steps ahead to learn from
- A community to join
- Who could introduce me
- Milestones
- In three months
- In one year
- In three years
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