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Working with skills forms the basis of various functionalities in Learned. Because every organisation has a different view on developing and assessing skills, we offer some options for setting up your own skill set. In this article we look at the skill levels.
Where are skill levels shown in Learned?
At Learned we express skills as standard in 5 levels of expertise. The idea behind this is that we will then link these skills to the employee's role profiles. The idea is that the starter functions are generally linked to the lower skill levels compared to the more senior functions. This also makes sense since we expect different behaviour and simply more expertise from a more senior employee than from a junior. By means of skill levels we express an expectation to the employee, as it were. The (expected) skill levels are then reflected in the role profile, when giving feedback on the role profile skills and in the Career module.
Example of a skill in the Learned Review module
The names and the number of skill levels
As can also be seen in the image above, we use 5 skill levels of 'novice-expert' as standard. When you press the 'Edit levels' button on the 'Skills' page, you will see these 5 levels by default. You can change the name, also known as skill label, per level. These skill labels then appear throughout the platform, including in the rating scale when providing feedback on the skills.
It is not possible to remove levels from our 5 default levels. This is because all Learned skills are expressed on those 5 levels. Don't worry, if you want to work with less than 5 levels, you can add your own skills, or import Learned skills to your own skill set. Here you can check for each skill on how many levels you want to express the skill. It is also possible to add extra levels to the skill set. All skills that you then create or import from the Learned skill set can be filled in at the new number of levels.
The example behaviours of skill levels
When you press the 'Edit levels' button you will see that you can not only change the names of the levels, but that there are also 2 standard example behaviours per level. For all skills from our skill database of 100,000+ skills, we have given 2 standard example behaviours per level in the system on 5 levels. This ensures that when you import a skill into your own skill set, it is automatically filled in with sample behaviours. You can of course adjust these behaviours per skill, but also in one go for the entire skill database.
Note: when modifying the example behaviours, be careful not to modify the variable %SKILLNAME%.
