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Implementing and Managing Career
Development Planning
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Overview of Career Development Planning
Career Development Planning enables employees to benefit from a wide range of employee development and career planning
activities, and provides managers with standardized methods to track the success of their direct reports.
Note
This is an SAP SuccessFactors Business Beyond Bias feature. Use it to support processes that detect, prevent, or eliminate the
influence of bias, helping you achieve your diversity and inclusion goals.
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
Recommended Implementation Sequence
To help you with your implementation, we recommend the following implementation sequence.
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Enabling Career Development Planning in Provisioning
Select available settings in Provisioning to enable the features of Career Development Planning.
Prerequisites
You have access to Provisioning.
Remember
As a customer, you don't have access to Provisioning. To complete tasks in Provisioning, contact your implementation partner or
Account Executive. For any non-implementation tasks, contact Technical Support.
Procedure
1. In Provisioning, select a company.
2. Under Edit Company Settings, select Company Settings.
3. Under Career & Development Planning, select the following settings as needed.
Setting Description
CDP Full (Development Plan) This option is required for selecting the Enable Development
Plan V12 option.
Enable Development Plan V12 Enables Development Plan v12. This option requires the
selection of the CDP Full (Development Plan) option.
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Setting Description
Career Worksheet Enables Career Worksheet v11 (not supported).
Career Worksheet V12 Enables Career Worksheet v12.
Enable Career Path V2 Enables Career Path v2. If not selected, customers can use
Career Path v1.
To use Career Path v2, we recommend that you also enable the
Career Worksheet V12 option.
Transcript This option is required for an integration with SAP
SuccessFactors Learning.
Use default value for required field validation Do NOT enable this option. If this option is enabled, when users
change the status of learning activities to completed, the
system compares the current value of each field with the
default value in the template and reports errors. Default values
are treated as mandatory fields.
Enable Add Learning Activity Manually Enables users to create custom learning activities in a
development goal plan.
4. Save your changes.
Role-Based Permissions for Career Development Planning
When you set up Career Development Planning, it's important to grant role-based permissions to right people.
Administrators with required permissions can manage and configure various features in Career Development Planning. Users with
required permissions can access and use the various features.
To see a full list of the permissions for Career Development Planning, refer to List of Role-Based Permissions by using filters and key
words.
Related Information
List of Role-Based Permissions
Managing Development Content
There are two elements to development content: the catalog of learning activities, and the mappings between learning activities
and competencies.
Permission to manage development content is granted via roles. To grant this permission, in Admin Tools, choose Set User
Permissions Manage Permission Roles , then select the role for which you want to grant access to managing development
content. In the Permission Role Detail page, choose Permission. Under Administrator Permissions, choose Manage Career
Development.
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Importing and Exporting Learning Activity Catalogs
Administrators can import the development catalog under Admin Tools Manage Learning Activity Catalogs .
Learning Management System
Column Name Comments
Data
1 ENTRY_TYPE Valid options: "LACatalog", "LearningActivity"
2 GUID Customer-supplied unique identifier for each record. CourseID
Must be numeric (supports large numbers).
3 LOCALE Valid options: "en_US", "en_FR_SF", etc. en_US
4 ENTRY_NAME Name of activity. Displayed in the list view. Course name
5 PARENT_ENTRY_ID Must reference the GUID of the parent record. For Catalog ID
LearningActivity records, these should reference the
LACatalog record.
6 FIELD1 Activity description should go here. Supports long text. Course summary
Since the complete description is included in the list
view, however, it is recommended that the length not
exceed about 2000 characters.
7 FIELD2 Max length: 1000 chars Leave blank. (Reserved for future
use; possibly duration)
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Learning Management System
Column Name Comments
Data
8 FIELD3 Max length: 1000 chars Leave blank. (Reserved for future
use; possibly vendor name)
9 FIELD4 Max length: 1000 chars Leave blank. (Reserved for future
use; possibly prerequisites)
10 FIELD5 Max length: 1000 chars Leave blank. (Reserved for future
use; possibly cost)
11 FIELD6 Max length: 1000 chars. URL for activity launch (if URL
applicable) would typically go here. To launch the target
in a separate window, include <popup> as a prefix to the
url. For example:
<popup>http://mylmsurl/activity.doc
12 ACTIVITY Type of activity. Examples: "ILT", "OLT", etc. Type of course
13 ACTIVE 1 (active) or 0 (inactive). Only active learning activities 1
will be displayed in the catalog view.
14 EDITABLE 1 (editable) or 0 (read-only). Planned for future use; will 1
offer the ability to prevent end-users from editing
learning activities once they are inserted into their
development plans. (Currently, activities are always
editable.)
Common CSV formatting rules apply. For example, text strings that might have commas within them should be surrounded by
double quotes ("), and quotes within text strings should be escaped by doubling them. See the entry on Comma-separated values
in Wikipedia for more information.
Following is an example of a catalog file with just one learning activity:
ENTRY_TYPE,GUID,LOCALE,ENTRY_NAME,PARENT_ENTRY_ID,FIELD1,FIELD2,FIELD3,
FIELD4,FIELD5,FIELD6,ACTIVITY,ACTIVE,EDITABLE
LACatalog,100,en_US,My course catalog,,,,,,,,,,
LearningActivity,101,en_US,"Basics of Microsoft Word",100,"Want to become a
""power user"" of Microsoft Word?
This course will teach you how!",,,,,,ILT,1,1
Although the system can support multiple catalogs loaded with a single import file, for administrative simplicity we recommend
that each import file only reference a single learning catalog. Development catalogs can be exported from this page:
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Importing and Exporting Competency Mappings
Learning Activity to Competency mappings are managed in the Admin Tools page under Manage Development Manage
Learning Activity to Competency mappings .
You can view, import, delete, and export competency mappings from this page:
The competency mapping file format is CSV and should use the following columns, with a header row:
Column Name Comments
1 COMPETENCY_ID or COMPETENCY_GUID This column can be either the competency ID or GUID; be sure to specify
which one you are importing by using the correct header. They are
frequently the same, but if they are different the GUID is easier to retrieve
from competency lists and exports.
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Column Name Comments
2 ENTRY_ID The GUID of the learning activity record.
3 ENTRY_TYPE Always "1"
Recommendation
Although the system can support mapping activities from multiple catalogs with a single import file, we recommend that each
import file only reference activities from a single learning catalog.
The export function exports the mappings as a CSV file, with the same format as the import file. The exported file always uses the
competency GUID, not the competency ID.
Managing Competency Mappings with Admin Tools
As an alternative to the mappings import file, administrators can manage competency mappings with a mapping tool in the Admin
Tools.
This tool looks similar to some of the other mapping tools within the product, where the user finds the records on each side of the
tool, and then selectively adds items from the right side to the selected item on the left.
The tool is located with the other Career Development Planning links at the bottom of the Admin Tools menu.
To protect the administrator from accidentally overwriting or corrupting the competency mappings, you must identify which
system is considered the master source of the data. In Provisioning, select Company Settings then locate the option Learning
Activities and Competencies Mapping Tool:
Remember
As a customer, you don't have access to Provisioning. To complete tasks in Provisioning, contact your implementation partner or
Account Executive. For any non-implementation tasks, contact Technical Support.
Specify which option is the master of the data:
External Master: the imported mapping file (typically generated by SAP SuccessFactors Learning) is the master of the data:
The mapping tool allows the data to be viewed, but not updated.
Mappings can be re-imported at any time.
CDP Master: Career Development Planning is the master of the data:
The mapping tool enables the administrator to change the mappings and save the changes.
Mappings can be imported only if there are no mappings already in the system.
Note
You must also have valid development goal and learning activity templates loaded before you can map competencies to
activities.
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