How to set up a Development Framework

Watch our video on how to set up skills here.

As a Leapsome admin, you can create a Development Framework for your company. To do so, please click on 'Development Framework' in the bottom-left corner of the Leapsome home screen.

Viewing your Skills

You can view your current set of skills in a list and a matrix view. Each new skill within the framework can be assigned to 'Everyone' (i.e., applicable to the whole company) or a specific team. Skills must also be associated with a category, which helps visually aggregate skills in analytics.

Creating skills

To create a skill, click the 'Create skill' button in the top right-hand corner. When creating or editing a skill, you'll go through the following steps:

1. Name your skill by a short but descriptive name.
2. Assign a category for data aggregation later on.
3. Assign a team if it is a team skill, or uncheck that option to make it a general / company-wide skill.
4. Determine if you want the options to hide the skill from the instant feedback module or if you want to make the skill a specialist skill.
   A specialist skill can only be reviewed by people from the associated team, allowing you to add technical skills not reviewed by peers from other teams.
5. Write the default description to describe what the skill generally is and why it's important.
6. Write level descriptions for any seniority levels you've created.
   For example, what's expected from a junior employee for 'Problem-solving' might be very different from the expectations for a senior-level executive. This means you'll want to write a different description of those expectations for each level (if you have levels).
   

   You can leave the level description boxes for teams not assigned to this skill empty.

7. Click 'Update Skill' at the bottom to save your work.

By combining levels and teams, Leapsome's Development Framework allows you to create team-specific career tracks. When filtering for a team in review analytics, you'll only see the skills and levels relevant for that team. 

Here is an example of a team skill with different skill levels:

Editing Development Framework

You can also remove or re-organize the skills you have set up. This is possible in the 'List view' on the right side of the specific skill. To remove a skill, click on the trashcan icon. To re-organize skills, click on the drag-and-drop icon. 

Export Development Framework Matrix

You can also import or export your Development matrix to further build your framework. Go to Development Framework > 'Actions' > 'Import/Export' and download the template for your matrix. You can then fill in the excel template and re-upload it to create or update your skills for your development framework. 

You can further customize your Skills Matrix by:

• defining teams and team skills
• defining seniority roles and skill levels