James Strickland

Empower your employees with development opportunities. Our app store includes apps that cover development plans, one-to-ones, career plans, job families and more.

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Boost employee engagement through opportunities for growth and development

Retain talent by giving them the resources and training they need to progress within the organization

Create cross-functional relationships by assigning career mentors who are not the employee's line manager

Growth opportunities are a crucial part of employee engagement. Encourage employees to plan their career progression with the help of mentoring conversations.

The Career Development One-to-One app includes:

Talking points: open-ended questions for the employee to assess their current working life, identify skills they want to learn, ask for coaching and set a timeline for their progression

Comments from the mentor/supervisor on each talking point to provide their expertise and recommendations

An area for both parties to define meeting outcomes and agreed action plans

This template has been created to help employees document their current career path and think about where they want to go next. It's designed as a conversation to take place between the employee and a mentor or supervisor they look up to, who can provide strategic direction on their career plan. Ideally a face to face meeting should take place to discuss what's been written, and then both parties can document the outcomes and actions they agreed on.

Discuss a career progression plan with your mentor/supervisor.

Career Development One-to-Ones

Development and growth opportunities are a crucial part of employee engagement

Keep a record of completed training that can be fed into performance reviews and development plans

Skills learned can be tracked by HR and used in succession planning

Training and coursework is an essential part of learning and professional development. Employees should be encouraged to pursue training courses, whether internal or external to the company.

This Training Approval app allows employees to easily request approval for any type of course, and get sign-off from their line manager and department budget owner. Included in the app is:

Course details, costs, dates and reasons why the course would be beneficial

Approval from the line manager to take the course

Approval from the budget owner to pay for the course (if needed)

A record for employees of what training and development programs they've attended

You can expand this app further to provide a list of all internal courses that employees are required to take. HR can then track registrations, course times and participants to ensure all staff are fully trained on company policies and development activities.

Register and get approval for external training and development courses.

Training Approval

Help employees to map out a clear path to progression

Engage supervisors in providing valuable advice and guidance to their team members

Give senior leadership insight into long-term employee goals to aid succession planning

Development plans help employees to articulate their career goals and design a clear path to progression.

Preparation questions designed to get employees thinking about what they like and dislike about their current role, their personal values and their areas of interest

The development areas needed to achieve the career goals: skills, knowledge, personal traits and potential distractions

Each section has an area for supervisor comments so that employees can work together with their leaders to make sure they're on the right track and ask for advice. Employees can then track their goal progress over time and make regular updates to the overall development plan until they reach their targets.

Track your professional development by creating career targets and defining the skills, knowledge and personal traits needed to achieve your goals.

Development Plans

Give employees the autonomy to plan their own career progression with a mentor's support

Allow self-service access to training courses and encourage employees to develop their professional skills

Give leaders a vision of how employees want to progress to aid with succession planning

Employee development is fundamental to team success. Creating a development roadmap ensures employees are growing professionally, continually developing their skills and meeting the organizational goals.

This Development workspace includes apps for:

Development Plans - plan your career development by defining your goals, identifying the skills and knowledge needed to achieve them, and track updates as you progress.

Career Progression One-to-Ones - have a discussion about your career path with a mentor or supervisor.

Training Approval - register for training courses and get quick approval from your line manager and budget owner.

Once you've installed this workspace the above functionality will be available. You are encouraged to make further customizations to each app including setting manager relationships, fixed participants and updating statuses.