Step 1 –Work Style Self-Assessment

Insight Inventory

Gain self-understanding, discover your personality strengths and improve your communication skills with the Insight Inventory. This assessment is different from other personality and style inventories because it considers how your behavior may change from one setting to another. You'll receive profiles that describe how you tend to behave in two environments: at work (your WORK Style) and at home (your PERSONAL Style).
 
The Insight Inventory provides feedback in four "dimensions":
Indirect/Direct: How you express thoughts, present ideas and assert yourself
Reserved/Outgoing: How you approach and respond to others
Urgent/Steady: The speed at which you make decisions and take action
Unstructured/Structured: How you structure time, organize tasks and handle details

Outcomes:
Identify your personality characteristics
Understand your reactions to stress
Learn to flex (temporarily change) your behavior to communicate better

The results can help you identify areas to work on in another step, the Individual Development Plan.

The on-line assessment takes approximately 10 minutes to complete and will provide you with immediate results. Please fill out the Work Style Self-Assessment Request Form to sign up for this assessment.

Recommended Action: Take Work Style Self-Assessment.

Step 2 – Consider Performance Review Input:

Performance evaluations are a useful tool for managing your personal career development. They typically provide analysis of recent accomplishments, areas for improvement and suitability for promotion or further training.

Recommended Action: Review your performance evaluation

Step 3 – Review Walgreens Competencies and associated Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scales
(BARS):

There are three behaviorally anchored rating scales (BARS) related to Walgreens Core Competencies:
• Individual Contributor
• Management
• Executive

Select the BARS form that matches your job level aspiration. Rate yourself according to the BARS (Not Achieving, Achieving Expectations, Outstanding, etc. for each competency. Think of concrete examples of when you have fulfilled the competency / BARS in the past and when you have not reached your targeted level. Use the results from your review /rating as input to your Long Range Career Plan and Individual Develop Plan.

Recommended Action:Review Walgreens Competencies and Behaviorally Anchored Rating
Scales (BARS)

Step 4 –Create a Long Range Career Plan:

Career development is an ongoing, lifelong process to help you learn and achieve more in your work.

Start this process by performing a manual gap analysis that compares your current role and past experiences with the Walgreens position / role you aspire to attain. Create your Long Range Career Plan:
Identify your personal career goals, strengths and areas for improvement
Prioritize your career goals
Develop an action plan
Define success

Your chosen path may require you to:
Take courses to develop skill sets
Conduct informational interviews with division heads
Apply for open positions through the Career Connections system
Complete an external degree and/or certification program

The multi-year Long Range Career Plan maps the steps you'll need to take to get you from your current position to your targeted position. The Individual Development Plan is a snapshot of a single year with goals to help you improve your performance.

Recommended Action: Complete Long Career Plan

Step 5 – Meet with Manager to Discuss Career Planning:

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be" –
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
Your manager is there to help you think about what you want to accomplish in your career and how to optimize your resources (assessment and evaluation information, development opportunities, possible future roles, etc.) to get you where you want to go.

Walgreens is investing in your future by training your manager this spring (the perfect season!) to use the G.R.O.W. (Goal, Reality, Options, Way Forward) coaching model for career planning before walking you through process. You'll gain a stronger sense of empowerment and engagement as you determine your own career and/or performance development.

Recommended Action: Schedule Career Planning Meeting

Step 6 – Update/Finalize Development Plan

• Incorporate your manager's feedback
• Obtain sign-off for resources required to complete your development plan
• Put steps into practice by charting each planned task and its deadline on your calendar
• Follow up with your manager at agreed-upon points
 
Take advantage of the opportunities Walgreens offers you, including developmental assignments, and classroom and virtual courses. To accept a challenging job assignment is the most valuable experience you can have. And like all experiences in career development, what you make of it is up to you! We look forward to celebrating with you as you make your next career step.

Recommended Action: Implement Development Plan