Career Development

Many organizational development leaders are faced with severe budget constraints which have impacted their ability to implement new development programs and maintain existing ones. In today’s hyper-competitive world, actively developing employees and providing career advancement opportunities to them are essential because they both drive employee engagement and also ensure that your workforce is prepared to meet the challenges of the future.

SumTotal Career Development establishes competency-based employee and leadership development and career plans focused on both current and future positions. Built on the industry’s most complete talent management platform, SumTotal Career Development enables you to:

Drive engagement and productivity by actively developing employees and providing career advancement opportunities to them
Empower employees to take control over their own careers by providing them with guided tools that help them to improve in their current roles or develop for future roles
Develop new leaders and eliminate leadership competency gaps by synchronizing and integrating development activities to established learning and training programs

Key Integration Points:

SumTotal uniquely provides native integrations from Career Development to other core talent management processes in order to support a holistic, end-to-end talent management strategy.

360 Degree Feedback: Competency feedback from multisource reviews can be leveraged to suggest development activities
Learning Management: Complete learning and training programs can be established to execute development plans
Performance Management: Development goals can be added to an employee’s plan for achievement during the review period
Recruiting & Hiring: Gaps revealed by pre-hire assessments can be leveraged to suggest development activities starting from the date-of-hire
Succession Planning: Development activities for future roles can be established
Workforce Management: Integrated across the SumTotal strategic HCM solution, SumTotal Workforce Management provides powerful tools to effectively manage labor rules, ensure compliance, and control labor costs and expenses
HR Management System (HRMS): As the foundation of SumTotal’s strategic HCM solution, SumTotal HR Management provides a single source of truth of workforce data for all HCM processes