Describing Career Development Planning

SAP SuccessFactors Career Development Planning and Mentoring (CDP) enables employees to benefit from a wide range of career development and planning activities. CDP also provides managers with standardized methods to track the success of their direct reports.

Consisting of various development-related features, Career Development Planning provides tools and opportunities for the following areas:

• Personal Growth
  • Undertaking relevant development activities.
  • Ensuring follow-through on development plans.
• Career Planning
  • Identifying interesting future job roles.
  • Researching the skills and competencies needed to perform in those roles.
• Corrective Remedies
  • Closing competency gaps with time-bound development plans.
• Succession Candidates
  • Linking to development plans and career notes from Succession Planning.
• Development Relationships
  • Connecting employees of different career levels in a development relationship where a more experienced person mentors a less experienced person.

Career Development Planning provides many important benefits, such as:

• Focusing on engaging and retaining top talent by helping employees build career development plans and track their progress.
• Allowing for personal growth as employees take on development activities that are relevant and actionable and where the follow-through is recorded.
• Empowering employees to plan their careers through identifying job roles that are of interest and researching the competencies and skills necessary to do those jobs well.

CDP also opens the door to full customization of the development plan and integrations with other SAP modules, such as SAP SuccessFactors Learning or SAP SuccessFactors Succession.

Career Development Planning tools can be found under both Development and Goals from the Main Menu, depending on the tool you're using. There are also quick cards on the Home screen to open Goals, Growth Portfolio, and Opportunity Marketplace.

This course will be using the latest version of Goal Management (LGM), consisting of performance goals and development goals. LGM provides a new experience to set up, track, distribute, and manage goals in your organization.

• Upgraded user interfaces allow employees to more effectively set up and manage their goals and view their activities.
• A unified entrance to Performance Goal and Development Goal enables seamless navigation.
• Uncluttered goal list views make it easy to spot critical information, glean insights, and apply quick changes.
• The integration with Continuous Performance Management helps managers and employees explore relationships between activities and goals in a broader perspective.