How do I get out of doing a development plan?
Discussion
I've been in the same job for my employer for over 3.5 years. Although I'm grateful to be employed I'm starting to think about my future prospects now I'm qualified and decided I'm better off trying to achieve this elsewhere. Problem is I can't start looking until September because I'm doing a Masters and my research is on my current employer.
My boss's boss has told my boss to put me on a development plan. The logical development for me is to start doing some supervisory work, my boss concurs with this. However, he says there's no opportunity for me to do this (there is but he won't allow it for reasons I can only speculate about).
Therefore in order to tick a box he's put me on some bulls
t development plan which includes offering my services to a dying specialists forum (e.g. meetings co-ordinator); acting as a 'buddy' to our trainee; and giving verbal report summaries at Committee meetings.
I've told him at my one to one and put it in an email that I think this is a waste of time (I stopped short of saying a braindead moron could do that plan) but he is adamant this will develop me. I have an appraisal coming up and was thinking of raising the same concerns. I've come up with the following solutions:
- To just accept it and do it until I leave. But I then let down the specialists forum by leaving them so soon after commmitting myself, which from an integrity point of view isn't good.
- To refuse to do the plan on the grounds it doesn't develop me. I suspect my boss's boss will agree with me but if he over rules my boss and then I leave this doesn't look good.
- To refuse the plan outright and asking to be left to do the job i'm employed to do, which will mean falling out with my boss and creating a toxic environment.
I'm thinking the first option is probably best - what do you guys think?
My boss's boss has told my boss to put me on a development plan. The logical development for me is to start doing some supervisory work, my boss concurs with this. However, he says there's no opportunity for me to do this (there is but he won't allow it for reasons I can only speculate about).
Therefore in order to tick a box he's put me on some bulls
t development plan which includes offering my services to a dying specialists forum (e.g. meetings co-ordinator); acting as a 'buddy' to our trainee; and giving verbal report summaries at Committee meetings. I've told him at my one to one and put it in an email that I think this is a waste of time (I stopped short of saying a braindead moron could do that plan) but he is adamant this will develop me. I have an appraisal coming up and was thinking of raising the same concerns. I've come up with the following solutions:
- To just accept it and do it until I leave. But I then let down the specialists forum by leaving them so soon after commmitting myself, which from an integrity point of view isn't good.
- To refuse to do the plan on the grounds it doesn't develop me. I suspect my boss's boss will agree with me but if he over rules my boss and then I leave this doesn't look good.
- To refuse the plan outright and asking to be left to do the job i'm employed to do, which will mean falling out with my boss and creating a toxic environment.
I'm thinking the first option is probably best - what do you guys think?
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