Heart-Tree-Star is a career planning framework that I learned from a mentor of mine Meng Phua during my time at Microsoft. It's a simple and valuable process that can be done on your own or in conjunction with your management team.
2. Star
What is your aspiration:
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1) Reasonable timeframe
2) Not Company Specific
Example: Before 2020 I will be the CEO
of a venture backed enterprise software company
3. Heart - Anchor
Make two lists:
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1) What are you great at?
2) What do you love doing?
4. Chair
Make three lists:
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1) How do you like to be recognized?
2) What is a meaningful reward?
a) Costs
b) Doesn’t
5. Tree
Review the lists with your manager:
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1) Agree on ‘projects’ and ‘roles’ together
2) Your MBOs include the measures + targets +
trees
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