"Part of my annual plan is a team development strategy. I set training and development objectives for each member and detail the courses or training they need to take to achieve these. In addition to this formal training, I also look for ad hoc opportunities to improve the skill sets of my team. An example of this is assigning them tasks that will stretch them and require them to learn new methodologies for software development. I will also partner a junior member of the team with someone more experienced who can mentor them. This benefits the junior member because they acquire new development skills, while the more experienced member can brush up their mentoring and leadership skills. My larger goal is to promote two of my team into senior staff engineering positions each year."