Add Capability Guides

You can add capability guides to an existing role guide or while creating a new one. To do so, open the role guide and click the Capability Guides tab. You can either create a capability guide from scratch or reuse an existing capability guide.

You can reuse an existing capability guide in one of two ways:

  • Reuse it only by reference, which means you can’t edit it. Whenever the collaborators or the author of the source capability guide update it, those changes will be reflected in this reused capability guide.
  • Make a copy of an existing capability guide and make changes to that copy. However, any changes that the author or collaborators make to the original capability guide won’t reflect in your copy.

If you’re creating a capability guide from scratch, these are the details you need to provide:

  1. Enter a name and description for the capability guide.

    You can click AI Assist in the Description box to use generative AI to create a description for the capability guide. GenAI will consider the role guide name, its description if available, and the capability guide name and its description if available, and generate a relevant description based on these. After the text is generated, you can make further edits, as required.

  2. Specify how others can reuse the guide. You can also choose not to allow reuse.
  3. In the Days to complete tasks field, enter how many days an employee (who’s assigned the role guide) can take to complete the tasks that are listed in the capability guide to attain the skills in that guide.
  4. In the Required skillssection, add the skills that an employee must attain to fulfill the requirements of the capability guide.
    Note: If you don't see any skills in this section, check whether you've added Skills Center section to the content section of the Guide Requirements profile type. To check this, go to My Client Groups > Profiles > Profile Types.
    After adding a skill, you can click the skill to view the skill attributes, such as whether the skill is required for achieving readiness for the role, or whether it’s required for achieving mastery in the role, and optionally, what level is required for readiness and mastery. Note that skills can be configured to only achieve one of the two, readiness or mastery. You can edit the skill to change these details.
  5. In the Task to attain required skills section, search for and add learning courses that will help the employee attain those skills. When you click inside the search box, you’ll see a list of suggested learning items that have outcomes that are the same as one or more of the skills you added in the Required skills section. When the employee completes the learning item, their talent profile is updated with these skill outcomes.
    You may also see tasks with learning items that don’t have outcomes matching the skills you added. However, when the role guide is assigned to employees, these tasks will not be assigned to the employee. The intent of adding these tasks is to allow role guide authors to continue creating the role guide, and later go back to their learning application to add these outcomes to those learning items, or request the learning administrator to add them. In the interim, you’ll see a warning that reads Task doesn’t help attain skill.
  6. In the Resources for required skills section, search for and add other learning resources that will supplement the learning tasks. The learning items suggested in this search box don’t update an employee’s talent profile on completion.

What to do next

Assign the role guide to employees.