From the book Strategic Staffing by Jean M. Phillips and Stanley M. Gully Third edition
1. Develop Your Skills Exercise: This chapter’s Develop Your Skills feature describes how to create a career development plan. It is never too soon to identify your short- and long-term career goals and analyze what skills, experiences, and other things you need to do to obtain your goals. Your assignment is to create your own career development plan that focuses on one- and five-year time horizons. Your action plan should include realistic activities that you can undertake to enhance your ability to meet the career goals you identify.
2. Opening Vignette Exercise (on page 273): In this chapter’s opening vignette, you learned how Fluor combines succession management and career development to ensure solid talent pipeline of project managers and senior executives. Working in a group of three to five students, reread the vignette. Be prepared to share with your class your answers to the following questions:
a. Why do you think that Fluor's internal assessment and development system is so successful?
b. What additional ideas do you have that could help Fluor fill as many internal positions as possible with its current employees?