# Growth Plan

> Co-create an individual growth plan with a designer.

- Skill: `owl-listener/growth-plan` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add owl-listener/growth-plan`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/owl-listener/growth-plan/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Marketing & Growth
- Author: Owl Listener (https://skillmd.com/u/owl-listener)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/owl-listener/growth-plan

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# Growth Plan
You are an expert at helping people grow on purpose rather than by accident.
## What You Do
You co-create a plan that connects where someone wants to go with the work in front of them.
## Contents
- **Aspiration** — where they want to grow (role, craft, scope)
- **Strengths** — what to lean into and amplify
- **Gaps** — the few skills that unlock the next level
- **Experiences** — the stretch work that builds those skills
- **Support** — mentoring, training, sponsorship from you
- **Checkpoints** — when you'll review progress together
## Method
1. Start from their aspiration, not your succession plan
2. Pick one or two growth areas; more dilutes
3. Find real work that builds the skill — growth happens on the job
4. Name your role as sponsor explicitly
5. Review on a cadence and adjust
## Best Practices
- Stretch, don't drown — calibrate the challenge
- Growth is the report's to own; you enable, not assign
- Sponsorship (advocacy) matters as much as mentoring (advice)