Learning Manager

One of the core features of EmployPlan is the ability to discover, assign and track training events beyond just online course. With EmployPlan, users can track any learning event and provide reviews on the content. This includes books, like the popular O'Reilly Guides or other technical books, as well as vendor event hands on labs, online seminars, continuing education and, of course, online courses that you can find and assign through the platform.

As a profession builds a depth of learning experiences across users, it will recommend the learning events that correlate to the highest skilled users on the platform so we encourage employees to record all learning events that are material to their understanding. While hours of assigned work drive the majority of the demonstrated experience metrics for a skill, learning events and frequency of training impact the user advancement as well.

In the EmployPlan platform, Learning Manager tab provides a location for project-driven employee development as well as bench development. This area of the platform gives visibility to the specific skills employees need to improve for project assignment as well as assigned training and mentoring progress by project.

You can narrow the search to specific projects with the Search textbox which queries against the Projects titles.

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Summary

The Learning Manager summary provides a quick view of the amount of employees that are currently in each of the two overlapping groups: Employees with Missing Skills and Employees in Development.

Select the desired project to expand it. This will show the two groups available for each project, which can be expanded further individually by selecting them.

Employee with Missing Skills

Employees will be assigned to this group when they have been assigned to a Project at (or for) a specific Role, which has skill requirements that the employee currently doesn't meet.

When a specific employee skill is identified for development, it will be marked as missing until the employee has started the assigned courseware selected to improve the skill. Employees with missing skills have two key paths for skill development: Find Training and Find Mentor

Find Training

Selecting the Find Training button for an employee's missing skill will open a pop-out window on the right side of the screen, which shows a recommendation of courses. These courses populate automatically depending on the type of skill that is missing, and the skill level that is required. A search bar allows you to search for specific courses by strings in their name.

Selecting the Assign button on a course will open a pop-up menu to attach a deadline for the assignment (standard options: no deadline, 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month). This can be set to a custom date by using the Custom.. deadline option, which will open a calendar window. Select the Confirm and Save button to assign the courses to the employee with the selected deadlines.

Find Mentor

Selecting the Find Mentor button for an employee's missing skill will open a pop-out window on the right side of the screen, which shows a recommendation of mentors that meet the skill requirements to be assigned to the employee. A search bar allows you to search for specific mentors.

By selecting the checkbox next to one of the users in the available mentor list, it will stage them as the assigned mentor for the employee initially selected. Select the Confirm and Save button to assign the mentor. Once this is done, the Mentor button will change to show that a mentor is assigned.

When skill development has begun through coursework being started, the employee will automatically switch to the Employees in Development Group.

NOTE: Employees can be in both groups simultaneously for a project, depending on if the skills missing have been both assigned and the development started by the employee.

Employees in Development

This group contains all of the employees that are engaged in specific training meant to cultivate the skillset needed for a Project and Role they are assigned to.

Courses Assigned

Selecting the Courses Assigned button for a user actively in development will open a pop-out menu on the right side of the screen that shows the courses currently assigned for skills in development.

Find Mentor

Selecting the Find Mentor button for an employee's in development skills will open a pop-out window on the right side of the screen, which shows a recommendation of mentors that meet the skill requirements to be assigned to the employee. A search bar allows you to search for specific mentors.

By selecting the checkbox next to one of the users in the available mentor list, it will stage them as the assigned mentor for the employee initially selected. Select the Confirm and Save button to assign the mentor. Once this is done, the Mentor button will change to show that a mentor is assigned.