Susan Traynor - SAP SuccessFactors Talent: Volume 2: A Complete Guide to Configuration, Administration, and Best Practices: Succession and Development

is an SAP SuccessFactors Certified Professional with more than 21 years of progressive experience in SAP HCM and SuccessFactors. She has considerable experience working on full lifecycle project implementations as well as supporting upgrades and integration projects You can follow her on LinkedIn.

Career Development Planning is an ongoing process used to help an individual assess their strengths, weaknesses, skills, interests, and priorities to plan their career growth and prepare for future opportunities. A career development plan is used to set actionable goals to help an individual determine where they are heading and what steps are needed to get there. It is a blueprint used by an employee to capture short- and long-term actionable goals needed to grow in their current role and to prepare for future roles. The plan can be based on the skills, competencies, education, training, or behaviors required for the employee to achieve personal and professional growth. The plan may include the steps or activities and the time frame needed to accomplish these goals. Setting personal and professional development goals gives an employee a road map to future success.

SAP SuccessFactors has a bundle of tools within the Career Development Planning (CDP) module that an employee may use to manage personal and professional development goals, do career planning, view career paths, and participate in mentoring programs.

In this chapter, we will walk through the steps to setting up Career Development Planning. We start by turning on the module in Provisioning and assigning configuration permissions. We will then demonstrate how to use the online editor to create and modify a development plan template. We will learn about the use of role competencies with development goals and learning activities. Then we highlight the details of editing the XML generated by that online editor with sample code. We will also see how a development plan may integrate with Performance Management, Calibration, Continuous Performance Management, Succession, and Career Worksheet. We will finish by taking a tour of the end-to-end development plan process as an end user. Following this chapter, we will dive into other features of CDP: Career Worksheet, Career Paths, and Mentoring.