Personal Development Goals

Setting and Tracking Individual Growth Objectives

Personal development goals in Aude help engineers define, track, and achieve their professional growth objectives. Whether you're learning a new technology, leading a key initiative, or working toward a promotion, these goals create a clear path forward.

Examples of Personal Development Goals

• Learning & Skills Development (e.g., "Master Kubernetes")

• Project Delivery (e.g., "Lead the API modernization project")

• Leadership Growth (e.g., "Mentor two junior engineers")

• Career Advancement (e.g., "Achieve Senior Engineer level")

• Technical Excellence (e.g., "Reduce system latency by 50%")

Controlling Who Can See Your Goals

Aude offers flexible visibility options for personal development goals to balance transparency with privacy. Choose the right visibility level based on the goal's nature and who needs to track its progress.

Visibility Levels

Private

• Visible only to you

• Best for: Personal career planning, preliminary ideas, sensitive goals

• Example: "Research potential paths to engineering management"

Manager

• Visible to you and your direct manager

• Best for: Career development goals, performance improvement plans

• Example: "Improve code review response time to under 24 hours"

Team

• Visible to all members of your team

• Best for: Technical goals that benefit from team support

• Example: "Lead migration to microservices architecture"

Peers

• Visible to everyone who shares your manager

• Best for: Goals that promote peer learning and collaboration

• Example: "Create internal training on our CI/CD pipeline"

Organization

• Visible to everyone in the organization

• Best for: Public initiatives and leadership goals

• Example: "Launch engineering blog with monthly technical posts"

Best Practices

• Start with broader visibility to encourage collaboration

• Use Private or Manager for goals still in development

• Consider Team visibility for goals that might inspire others

• Choose Organization visibility for goals that demonstrate leadership

Performance Category Association

Aligning Goals with Leadership Principles

Each personal development goal in Aude can be linked to one of your organization's leadership principles. This alignment helps show how individual growth supports broader organizational values and expectations.

Why Associate Categories?

• Demonstrates how personal goals support leadership principles

• Helps track growth across different performance dimensions

• Provides context for performance evaluations

• Shows balanced development across key areas

Example Alignments

Technical Excellence

• Goal: "Implement automated testing strategy"

• Shows commitment to quality and engineering rigor

• Maps to principles like "High Standards" or "Technical Mastery"

Customer Focus

• Goal: "Reduce API response times by 50%"

• Demonstrates user-centric thinking

• Aligns with principles like "Customer Obsession"

Collaboration

• Goal: "Mentor two junior engineers"

• Shows investment in team growth

• Maps to principles like "Build Strong Teams"

Best Practices

• Choose the most relevant principle for your goal

• Consider how the goal demonstrates the principle in action

• Use associations to ensure balanced growth across principles

• Review with your manager to ensure alignment

Goals can only be associated with one performance category, so choose the most applicable principle for the primary focus of your goal.