Assessments are meant to help you systematically organize input on potential from both yourself and others, and use that information to prioritize your development efforts.

An assessment is a high-level, opinionated perception of how well someone masters a role or a skillset, and how impactful we would expect it to be if they were given the proper development opportunities and applied themselves.

Read more about the concept of assessments.

In the context of the library, assessments are meant to help you build awareness and identify where it potentially makes sense to dive deeper in and Test yourself.

How to make an assessment

To make an assessment, navigate to the item in the library in which you want to assess ability, and trigger a new assessment by clicking the green star indicator.

You can trigger an assessment in the following contexts:

• Categories: Takes you through the assessment of the roles and skillsets associated with the category.
• Programs: Takes you through the assessment of the roles and skillsets associated with the program.
• Roles: Takes you through assessment of the role itself and any associated skillsets associated with the role.
• Skillsets: Takes you through assessment of the skillset itself.
• Profiles: Takes you through the assessments of the roles and skillsets associated with the profile, and the roles and skillsets associated with the categories. associated with the profile.

Once you have been taken through each assessment item, you will be sent to the assessments page which lists all your assessments, grouped by information type, and sorted in descending order of your potential.

View assessments

Once you have assessed yourself in something, a indicator is shown communicating your potential.

The potential indicator has four levels:

• High potential
• Moderate potential
• Limited potential
• No potential

To view all your assessments in one, convenient location, click the Assessments indicator in the top, right corner.

Assess other

When you trigger a new assessment, the default assumption is that you want to assess yourself. However, you can just as easily add other people and assess them. Typical use cases for this is coworkers or partners invested in helping each other improve.

To add a new person to assess, trigger a new assessment and click the "Add new person" link, or click the assessments indicator in the top, right corner and manage the people you want to assess from there.