Understanding Development Plans
The most common way to ensure that regulated individuals attain the standards required for professional certification is to enroll them in development plans. In the Manage Professional Compliance business process, assemble development plans from these elements:
Training courses set up in Administer Training.
Competencies defined in Manage Profiles.
Accomplishments defined in Manage Profiles.
Development activity defined for other types of development.
Note: A development activity is a general category that you use to define areas of development that are part of a development plan but are not supported by the other Workforce Development business processes. Self-study time is an example of a development activity.
The ability to combine the individual elements of training courses, competencies, accomplishments, and activities enables you to set up company development plans and associate them with a particular classification level that may apply either to individuals or to an entire group of professionals.
Before defining development plans, set up the accomplishments, competencies, and courses that you select for use within Manage Professional Compliance. Set up the accomplishments and competencies that you need for professional compliance in the content catalog that is part of the Manage Profiles business process, and define the training courses that you need in Administer Training. These preparations avoid duplication of data related to general worker development.
The only development elements that you define entirely within Manage Professional Compliance are activities.