In the platform, ambitions represent people's overall and long-term desires to get better and produce more value.

Working towards our ambitions should give us a sense of fulfillment and accomplishment, and make us better at practicing the roles we would like to hold, both now and in the future.

Compared to the concept of objectives, which are team-specific, ambitions are personal, meaning they relate to an individual's growth and development potential.

Compared to the concept of Expectations in focus, ambitions are more holistic, less granular and are expected to take longer to develop. Picking specific expectations in focus from ambitions is, however, one concrete way of working towards an ambition.

How it works

The ambitions of someone can be associated with

• A role they would like to get better at/grow into (or even hand over to someone else), or
• A skillset they belive will make them more well-functioning and able to deliver better value

You set something as an ambition by clicking the seedling indicator near the current state og the role or skillset assignment in question.

Setting an ambition can be done from the following views:

Roles

• The list of roles for a person
• The list of role holders when viewing a role

Skillsets

• The list of skillsets not mastered proficiently by a person (aka Unmastered)
• The list of skillsets of a person
• The list of people mastering a skillset when viewing a skillset
• The list of skills a role holder is expected to be familiar with

If you set something as an ambition of someone else, you will receive a Notification of completed familiarity.

When setting something as an ambition, it is displayed in the on the Ambitions tab of the priorities widget on the Focus-dashboard.

The view includes the roles and skillsets set as ambitions, including their current state and their mentors (if any).