Which of the following best describes the components of a development plan?

• A. Only training requirements.
• B. Only assignments and milestones.
• C. Mapping required skills, training, and assignments toward promotion and expanded duties.
• D. Only performance appraisals.

Answer: (C)

The main idea is to connect what you need to know and be able to do with the steps to get there by explicitly linking required skills, targeted training, and real assignments to promotion and expanded duties. This approach ensures you’re developing in a way that directly supports advancing in rank and taking on more responsibilities, not just ticking off trainings or tasks in isolation. By mapping skills to specific training and to assignments that demonstrate proficiency, you have a clear, actionable path showing how each element contributes to readiness for promotion and broader duties. The other options fall short because they focus on training alone, or on tasks and milestones alone, or on evaluations alone, without tying together capabilities, learning, and progressive responsibilities into a single development trajectory.