This is the third post in a series on orchestrating workforce development with Degreed Automations. See the rest.
Who doesn’t love announcing a well-deserved promotion?
Helping people advance their careers is a top reason L&D pros do what they do—a passion that benefits the individual employee as well as the business.
Yet the career growth path from A to Z isn’t always clear, which is why your people need targeted skill-building opportunities.
As you engage employees with their career mobility in mind, Degreed Automations can help you easily deliver the right learning to the right people at the right time. How? By automating personalized messages and reminders that drive employees onto the Degreed platform, and by automating suggested content and experiences based on people’s skills.*
Reach employees—quickly.
We recently explored how an employee—a Sales Director we call Kelly—can receive relevant onboarding resources and also prepare for the launch of a new product with the help of Degreed Automations. We automatically delivered learning plans as well as reminders to keep learning—scaling personalized development and saving time on day-to-day administrative tasks.
Let’s look now at another facet of Kelly’s development—the advancement of her career.
Building Skills to Grow Careers
After two years as a Sales Director, Kelly is interested in a management role. She speaks to her supervisor about her current skill gaps and identifies leadership and negotiation as two skills she needs to grow to be considered for a promotion.
Kelly updates her Degreed skill profile with her two new focus skills and gives herself a skill rating of 3/8 for each.
The next day, Kelly receives an email with recommendations for her two focus skills—including content, mentorships, and stretch assignments. Kelly signs up for a mentorship program and volunteers for a stretch assignment.
One month after starting the stretch assignment, Kelly receives an email reminding her to update her skill self-ratings. And after completing the mentorship, she and her mentor receive a messaging reminding them both separately to provide skill ratings. Once Kelly advances to a skill level of 4, she again receives recommendations for learning content and experiences, but this time on more advanced topics.*
Through these relevant learning experiences, Kelly has filled her personal skill gap and can advance her career.
Career Growth Behind the Scenes—the L&D Perspective
Instead of automating learning recommendations based on job titles, L&D automated them based on individual skills and skill levels. In this case, L&D delivered content and development recommendations to Kelly based on her focus skills (leadership and negotiation) and skill level for each (3/8).
Because leadership is a top focus skill at your company, L&D has already identified recommended learning for employees. And because negotiation is a critical skill your organization needs in order to develop a high-performing sales team, L&D again had specific content and experiences mapped to this skill.
L&D used Degreed Automations every step of the way:
- When your employees added a focus skill, they got an email encouraging them to sign up for stretch assignments and mentorships.
- When Kelly added leadership as a focus skill, for example, she got an email linking her to your company-endorsed leadership training.
L&D delivered the right learning based on skill and skill level. And thanks to this process, the learning team obtained up-to-date skill data that better reflects your organization’s current strengths. L&D can use this skill data to power even more personalized development, improving its ability to scale the impact of learning.
Degreed Automations help you help your employees.
Automations power improvements in productivity, performance, and career growth—at scale, and without repeated manual effort — across the entire employee lifecycle.
For career growth, Automations enable a seamless experience that helps your people to build the skills that they—and your organization—need.
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*This functionality is on the Degreed product roadmap and coming soon.