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learning development plan

Build a personalised day-by-day learning & development plan for a new hire on a specific topic using Gemini in Drive.

collaboration Tags: curated, google-workspace, hr, onboarding, engagement, surveys

Attribution: Prepared by 6DuckLearn. Inspired by Google Workspace with Gemini Prompting Guide 101 (2025).

When to use this

You're a manager or HR partner who needs to get a new hire (or any employee) up to speed on a specific topic — whether that's a product, a process, a tool, or a technical skill — and you want a structured day-by-day learning path, not just a pile of links.

What you'll get

A day-by-day learning and development plan organised for the first 1–2 weeks, with suggested activities, reading, practice exercises, and relevant file recommendations pulled from your Google Drive.

Prompt template

Use this in Gemini in Drive:

Create a personalised learning and development plan for a new hire who needs to learn about [topic]. Organise it by day across [number] days and suggest relevant files from my Drive that support each learning objective.

Fill in the variables:

  • [topic] — be specific: e.g. "our enterprise sales process", "Google Analytics 4", "our brand identity guidelines", "Agile sprint ceremonies"
  • [number] — how many days the plan should span (5, 10, 14 are common choices)

Customisation tips

  • Add the hire's prior knowledge level: "They have no prior experience with [topic]" or "They're an expert in X but new to Y"
  • Specify learning formats: "Include a mix of reading, shadowing sessions, and hands-on practice"
  • Tie it to a milestone: "By the end of this plan they should be able to [outcome]"
  • Ask Gemini to flag gaps: "Note any topics where Drive files are missing so I can fill them in"

Iteration suggestions

After Gemini generates the plan:

  1. Build the schedule → slot these learning blocks into the first-week plan using new-hire-first-week-schedule
  2. Track progress in Sheets → ask Gemini in Sheets to convert the plan into a tracker with completion checkboxes

Related skills in this workflow

Step Skill What it does
1 onboarding-presentation-script Draft the welcome presentation script
2 new-hire-first-week-schedule Build the first-week schedule table
3 new-hire-team-bonding-activity Design a team bonding activity
4 → You are here learning-development-plan Build a personalised L&D plan

Related skills

  • anonymous satisfaction survey — Draft a complete anonymous employee satisfaction survey with answer options covering workload, WLB, compensation and career growth in Gemini in Docs.
  • employee engagement survey — Generate enterprise-wide employee engagement and satisfaction survey questions using the Gemini app.
  • new hire first week schedule — Create a first-week schedule table for a new hire in Gemini in Sheets, with meetings, training, key contacts, and priority levels.
  • new hire team bonding activity — Design a collaborative team-bonding activity (e.g. scavenger hunt) for a new hire's first team meeting in Gemini in Docs.
  • onboarding presentation script — Draft talking points/script for new hire onboarding presentation using company mission & values doc as context in Gemini in Docs.
  • survey data cleanup — Clean and standardise an employee survey spreadsheet (fill blanks, normalise labels, remove empty rows) by uploading to the Gemini app.