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At Learned, we try to encourage frequent conversations about skills and competencies. There are therefore various places in the platform where these skills and competencies are shown. It is up to the Admin to manage all skills, competencies and associated settings. That is why we have written various articles to help you with this.
Where do you work with skills in Learned?
First of all, a short impression of where you will have to deal with skills in the Learned platform.
Job/role profiles: after you have created the skill set, you get started with forming job/role profiles. You link each profile to various skills at a certain level. The linked level is also the expected level of an employee when giving a review.
Review module: when creating development conversation templates and the resulting review round, one of the options is to review the skills in the job/role profile of the employees. The employees receive a questionnaire consisting of all relevant skills.
Career plan: as Admin you assign employees to 1 or more job/role profiles. In addition, there is an option in Learned where employees can browse through all other internal roles. In this way, employees have insight into the necessary skills for their current and desired future job/role profile.
Learning module (if active): as Admin you can link learning activities to certain skills. You can indicate if the activity is for example Required, Recommended or Optional. Learning activities linked to skills also give employees insight into which activities can help improve a skill, or which activities are linked to an ambition role.
Reports: Admins have insight into the skill development and skill gap of the entire organisation.
Example of a skill in the Learned review module
How is a skill set built up in Learned?
Before you can get started with skills, you always start with your skill set. Within Learned, 3 skill sets are displayed by default. The first skill set has the name of your own organisation. In addition, we provide a detailed skill set of 38 interpersonal skills with behavioural examples expressed at 5 expertise levels. Finally, an extensive skill database of more than 100,000 skills and competencies is available. When working with skills, keep the following in mind:
The skill set consists of at least 4 skill categories, such as Interpersonal, Professional, IT and Languages. Categories allow you to organise your skills in a logical way. This subdivision is reflected in the design of your role profiles and in the exchange of feedback on skills. Of course, you can change the names of the categories and add additional categories as you wish. All skills that you add yourself are linked to at least 1 category.
The skills you add to your own skill set can be divided into expertise levels. We will elaborate on this in another article.
What are the possibilities to fill your own skill set?
There are 3 possibilities to work with the skill sets:
Make full use of Learned's detailed skills and/or the Learned skills database:
For companies that have already thought broadly about competencies, but have not yet worked this out in detail.
For the detailed 38 interpersonal skills of Learned, you are bound by the number of skill levels of Learned. You can change the names of the skill levels (skill labels).
For the other skills in the extensive skill database, you can adjust both the number of skill levels and the skill labels.
Combine your own skillset with the Learned skillset:
For companies that want to use their own structure when setting up competencies, but want to do this with the help of Learned.
With this you import Learned skills to your own skill set.
With the detailed Learned skills you are tied to the number of skill levels of Learned. You can change the skill labels.
Create a completely custom skill set:
For companies that want to set up their own competency framework in the Learned platform.
You can determine the skill categories yourself, as well as the number of skill levels and the skill labels.
Tip: check our other articles for filling your own skill set and for more information about skill categories, skill levels and skill labels.