Workstream Development Version 7

Flexible, Unified Talent Management Solution

Workstream Development 7.0 is a component of the unified Talent Center 7.0 offering. Customers have a single view of all their talent management information: development plans, competency profiles, performance reviews, 360 assessments, compensation planning, and information on succession planning - all unified in one application.

Reduce Turnover Across Your Business

Turnover is one of the most expensive costs that any business faces. Workstream Development 7.0 reduces turnover by guiding employees on a career path within a company and then empowering them with the tools to grow into their chosen career.

Motivate Your Employees

Workstream Development 7.0 helps businesses empower engaged and motivated employees by offering them the knowledge and tools to accomplish their development goals. Tools like Competency Portfolio and Individual Development Plans help employees engage in their own development process to become more committed to their progress and goals and more productive members of their team.

Single, Global Solution

Development 7.0 is the most flexible global solution, supporting all languages. This enables managers and employees to assess competencies, set goals, and manage all aspects of their development process in their local languages. Administrators and executives are able to view overall information in their local language - all in the same solution.

Today, businesses are working harder than ever to retain and motivate their team. With talent shortages tightening the potential workforce, not only is it more cost-effective to retain employees, it is a strategic imperative to retain the best employees. Workstream Development 7.0 provides a comprehensive, easy to use solution to help you do just that.

Workstream Development 7.0 provides the most complete and well integrated employee development solution on the market. Leveraging TalentCenter 7.0's single, unified user-experience and adding a new cross-application reporting platform and new integrated knowledge management capabilities, Development 7.0 is the next step in the evolution of employee development solutions.

Key Product-level Capabilities

• Highly Configurable - Workstream Development is very flexible, offering hundreds of options for every aspect of competency development, succession planning, and organizational charting. Some options include nominating successors, self-nomination, assessment fields to display, and competency profiles
• Individual Development Plans (IDP) - Workstream Development allows IDP creation and management of the entire development process. IDP compliance reports ensure that managers and employees are creating and approving the correct IDPs.
• Competency Assessment - Workstream Development enables true competency assessment of both competency and behavioral levels. The product supports measurement of skills, knowledge and competencies requiring different scales while tracking employee attributes that may be important for succession planning or resourcing such as additional education, certifications or licensing.
• Competency Definitions - Provides full competency definitions and assessment scale information in easy to use pop-up windows.
• Competency Health and Ranking Reports - Reports aggregate competency gaps and ranks employees based against specific competency profiles.
• Career Development - Employees and their managers can graphically compare their personal portfolio of competencies to job requirements in their career path and identify suitable learning for each competency gap. Employees can address these gaps through classes, e-learning, books, and other developmental materials. Workstream Development includes pre-defined links to more than 10,000 SkillSoft™ courses and over 1,000 development tactics.
• Succession Planning - Workstream Succession Planning allows incumbent employees and other managers to easily designate potential successors from queries to the employee database. Managers can indicate whether the incumbents are promotable or transferable, to which positions, when, and what development they will need in order to be ready.
• Analyze Successors - Successors can easily be displayed and rank ordered based on their competency assessments, readiness, availability or other selected fields.
• Creation of a Succession Plan - Creates reports for a specific position or for specific successors, while managing the entire succession plan.
• Organizational Charting - Uses information already available to deliver information-rich corporate directories and organizational charts across the company intranet.
• Deep Integration to Performance Management - View successors' past performance plans and appraisals to evaluate the relevance of their experience, their key job responsibilities, their job goals, their performance and competency proficiency ratings.