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Identifying Enablement Lead Skills

<div id="content"><p tabindex="0">The enablement lead role has a varied set of skills. Check out the following video to understand more about the responsibilities, knowledge, aptitude, and personality of the enablement lead.</p><div class="kalturaVideoLessonWrapper"><div aria-label="" class="kalturaVideoLessonContainer" data-testid="video" id="1_d20v4957"></div></div></div>

The Required Skills of an Enablement Lead

<div id="content"><p tabindex="0">Before we embark on more details about the enablement lead role and learning and enablement planning activities, here is an opportunity for you to complete a self-assessment on your capability to operate as an enablement lead.</p><img style="max-width:900px;max-height:none" class="image 1_1_landscape" title="Now, it's your turn" alt="Now, it's your turn" src="/service/media/SLE200_01_en-US_media/SLE200_01_en-US_images/YourTurn.png" tabindex="0"><p tabindex="0">Click the link to access the self-assessment form: <a href="https://d.dam.sap.com/a/rxvoPpu/U1%20L1.2.1%20T1.2.2%20Enablement%20Lead%20Self-Assessment.pdf?inline=true&amp;rc=10&amp;doi=SAP1120434">Enablement Lead Self-Assessment</a></p><img style="max-width:900px;max-height:none" class="image 1_1_landscape" title="Check your answers" alt="Check your answers" src="/service/media/SLE200_01_en-US_media/SLE200_01_en-US_images/Check your answers.png" tabindex="0"><p tabindex="0">Now that you have completed the self-assessment form, look at the results document to see how to calculate your results: <a href="https://d.dam.sap.com/a/DXFmLik/U1%20L1.2.1%20T1.2.2%20Enablement%20Lead%20Self-Assessment%20Results.pdf?inline=true&amp;rc=10&amp;doi=SAP1120455">Enablement Lead Self-Assessment Results</a></p><p tabindex="0">Now you can visualize your self-assessment results, please watch the following video for SAP Learning’s key recommendations.</p><div class="kalturaVideoLessonWrapper"><div aria-label="" class="kalturaVideoLessonContainer" data-testid="video" id="1_5q5qegnm"></div></div></div>

Your Self-Assessment

Learning and Enablement Planning in SAP Projects

<div><div>Meet Grace, an exceptional enablement lead with strong project management skills. Discover her crucial role in enabling successful project outcomes, fostering collaboration, and driving organizational growth.<br><br># This description was auto-generated #</div></div>

Learning and Enablement Planning in SAP Projects: Enablement Lead Skills

Enablement Lead Skills Grace, our enablement lead, has good project management skills, which helps her feel more comfortable in her role. Let's look at her role in more detail. Firstly, it is important to define the responsibilities of an enablement lead. The enablement lead has a number of responsibilities that are essential for efficient project management, successful enablement and achieving project objectives. As the enablement lead, Grace designs and develops the enablement strategy and the learning needs analysis for the project team and users. Grace closely collaborates with strategic teams to determine the enablement strategy and organizational learning objectives. She works with cross-functional teams to identify learning needs. She ensures learning tools and vendor selection is appropriate for technical learning requirements and aligns to the overall business goals regarding learning and enablement. Grace plans and manages all enablement activities. She hires and manages a collaborative enablement team who in turn support learners in the business. The enablement lead serves as the backbone for effective collaboration and communication within the team. She acts as primary escalation point for all learning and enablement activities and escalates risks and issues to the overall project manager. Now let's consider the knowledge Grace requires. Knowledge empowers an enablement lead to make informed decisions, drive successful SAP projects, and contributes to organizational growth. Grace has previous experience of working in digital transformation projects. She's also worked in a learning and enablement role in the past as a training manager. Grace understands enablement principles and methodologies. She's previously worked effectively with the learning management systems and instructional content tools. Grace has worked within the business for a number of years. She has been involved in strategic planning, resource allocation and understands BriscoBike's leadership techniques and coordination of people. Thoughts of aptitude and personality are important. An enablement lead with the right aptitude and a balanced set of personality traits can drive successful SAP projects and foster team collaboration. Grace has the ability to communicate information and ideas in a way that everyone can understand. She is an active listener, she gives full attention to different stakeholder groups, taking time to understand any points raised and to ask follow-up questions. She has the ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing and she writes effective documentation. Grace employs critical thinking. She uses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions and approaches to problems. She can identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. Grace is an organized worker. She can prioritize her work. She develops specific goals and plans to prioritise, organize and accomplish tasks successfully across multiple ongoing activities.

<div>Learn how to assess and improve your skills as an enablement lead in this insightful video. Discover valuable tips on self-assessment, skill development, and career progression in the field.<br><br># This description was auto-generated #</div>

Learning and Enablement Planning in SAP Projects: Enablement Self Assessment

Now let's review the results of your self-assessment. To get an overview of your self-assessment results, please transfer the sum for each section calculated in the questionnaire and mark the value on the respective axis in the spider diagram below. Then connect the five dots so they form a pentagon. The results show your personal skill profile to act as an enablement lead in your SAP implementation project. Consider values of 20 and above as a strength. Values below 15 indicate areas of improvement. Managing an enablement team within a fast-paced project requires lots of different skills. Please note that if you have low scores in areas of the self-assessment, this does not automatically indicate that a person is not fit to be an enablement lead. However, it does help to identify gaps in knowledge. Throughout your career, your practical experience will naturally increase. Do not be concerned if you are at the start of your career or do not have years of experience. It takes many, many years to gain valuable practical experience. If there are certain areas that you have not been exposed to, then seek to find a more experienced colleague and ask if they could share some time or spare their wisdom. Most people are more than happy to talk about their careers high and lows and lessons learned. Then, as you start to progress in the project, do not be afraid to seek out feedback on your performance. If a particular project management tool is being used on your implementation project, do take the time to attend training or access self-study materials on this topic. It is also a good idea to aim for a project management certification. Learning and enablement principles are widely available online. Take the time to review digital learning principles and adult learning techniques. Remember that practical application of the theories you study is where the learning really happens. Plus, learning through making mistakes is invaluable. If you feel you are really lacking in this area and you have the budget in your project, Invest in working alongside an SAP Learning and Enablement Expert Consultant. You can shadow them as they work on the project. They can act as a mentor to you. This is a good way of learning on the job. Like practical experience, the years you work in business or your specific industry will be invaluable. However, if you're just starting out, be inquisitive. Find out how your organization really works, what processes, methodologies and tools are used in-house. Research industry trends, read blogs, listen to podcasts, seek information online. An Enablement Lead requires many soft skills as a good communicator, listener, team lead, collaborative team player and critical thinker. You will need to interact with many different people on all levels. Be really honest with yourself, where your strengths and weaknesses lie, and how you want to show up in the role of enablement lead. If negotiation skills or handling conflict in tense situations is hard for you, seek out a course that works on this with practical examples you can try out in a safe environment. There are a huge number of soft skill courses available online or physical on-site. You can always ask others for feedback. If you must deliver a presentation in a team meeting, informally ask some of the audience on feedback for your performance. When you write your first status report, check in with the project manager that you are producing a clear documentation. If you have a trusted colleague, ask for their regular support and feedback. Personality is who you are, your very essence. It's not so easy to change your personality fundamentally. The key is to think and act like a confident enablement lead. There are also online courses to build your confidence, maintain positivity in stressful situations and get the best out of your relationships with others. Also consider mindfulness exercises. There are some invaluable mindfulness and meditation tools online to help you manage your day-to-day emotions and also deal with the feelings of overwhelm that can happen on hectic workdays. As an example, the minute to arrive meditation is a great one when you are jumping from one meeting to another. No matter if you are already a professional enablement lead or just starting out in your career, it is a good idea to assess your own performance now and then and check in on how you are doing. You will be surprised how far you can progress with a positive mindset, a can-do attitude and continuously evaluating your performance to achieve your goal as an enablement lead.