The Development Plan page helps users to align their development goals with achievable steps within a chosen timeframe.
Learners can indicate their strengths and areas for improvement within the text areas for ‘My Strengths’ and ‘My Development Focus’.
Learners create their Development Plan by adding ‘Development Measures’ to the timeline. Development measures are the achievable steps/milestones they will take to achieve their development goals.
Development measures include undertaking a course, initiating a knowledge exchange with a colleague etc. The user creates the measure and specifies the skills they will potentially improve on while completing the measure. They add a start date and the measure appears in the timeline in chronological order.
A comprehensive overview of the learners Development Plan, including Strengths and development focus, all development measures and skill related data, is available to mangers within the ‘Profile Overview’ section of the ‘Employees’ page. (click here to read more.)
My Strengths and development focus
Users can add their strengths and development focus by clicking the edit icon to add or update this information.
Development timeline
All Completed, started and planned development measures are represented as tiles in the Development timeline. Development measures appear in the timeline in chronological order.
The tiles show basic information including title, type, status, start date and completion date.
Clicking directly on the tile shows all additional details associated with that development measure including skills to acquire, links and notes. To edit or delete a measure, click the ellipses.
When a measures status is updated to ‘Completed’, the skills from that completed Development Measures will appear in the Validate Skills area under the ‘Developed skills’ heading, reminding the user to assess whether they have developed those skill, and if so add to their profile or adjust the proficiency level to reflect their development.
The timeline can be filtered based by date range and measure type.
An overview at the top of the timeline shows how many of the measures have been completed, started and planned, as well as which skills are currently being developed or have been developed through those development measures.
Adding Development measures
Learners can add their own development measures, which are goals related to their own development that they would like to track and evidence. To add a development measure, they need to click the Add development measure button.
| Title | Give the development measure a title. |
| Type |
The type indicates how the learner is planning to achieve this goal. Available measure types include:
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| Start | Setting a start date dictates where this goal will appear on the plan timeline. |
| Status |
The status indicates what progress the learner has made. The colour of the item on the development plan timeline will change depending on the status.
Once this is set to "Done", an additional Time spent field will appear. This is to indicate how long it took the learner to complete this goal. |
| Skills to acquire | Select skills that are related to this development goal. |
| Add link | If this skill is being acquired via an external provider or somewhere else online, you can use this field to link to it. |
| Notes | A space for any additional details that a learner may want to add. |
Check-ins
Learners can add check-ins to their timeline so that they can talk about their development and growth with their colleagues. To add a check-in, click the Add Check-in button.
| Discussion partner | Select someone else in the organisation to have a check-in with. It could be your manager, or an expert in the area you want to develop in. |
| Add the date which the discussion took place. | |
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The status indicates what progress the learner has made. The colour of the item on the development plan timeline will change depending on the status.
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| Add link | Add any relevant or helpful links. |
| Notes | A space for any additional details that a learner may want to add. |