Team Skills Assessment
powered by the LPI Capability Map
Our field is maturing; we’re seeing new technologies and new awarenesses redefining our boundaries. Defining up-to-date competencies both provide guidance for existing initiatives and open our eyes to new possibilities. The output of this exercise is a valuable contribution to our field documenting the complexity and diversity of the role of today’s learning professional.
As we move into a new era of workplace learning, learning professionals will need a range of new competencies and skills. The LPI Capability Map will therefore provide a useful framework to help those in the profession understand what is required to become a competent practitioner.
Having a sound Learning Capability map will allow organisations to drive consistency in learning and segment the many roles in learning to provide focus and opportunities for career growth either from within the learning function or as a secondment for leaders looking to expand their knowledge in this area.
The beauty of the capability map is that it’s a collaborative, crowd-sourced north star for L&D teams and professionals. I love that it’s co-created by people doing the roles that are being mapped, to help other people build awesome teams. In a world of experts and advice, this is a grass-roots framework that reflects the real needs of the industry and gives us a way to meet those needs
The starting point I refer all L&D people to is the LPI Capability Map. It’s proved to be the best tool that I know of at present to direct L&D people to a list of the core skills that reflect what L&D looks like now.
The LPI Capability Map is an important first step towards documenting the complexity and diversity of the role of today’s learning professional.
I like the LPI Capability Map because it will grow and develop over time as people contribute to it. In an industry that moves and innovates as fast as ours this is vital.
I think that the LPI Capability Map is a very useful foundation to benchmarking competencies within the learning/L&D arena. From a recruitment perspective I believe it will help Blue Eskimo more effectively gauge candidate skills in the real world and align these to relevant job opportunities that we are recruiting for.
My role is mainly IT learning and as such most of the performance systems I’ve been required to use predominantly focus on IT or HR skills and have to be manipulated to be used effectively. The LPI capability map is different. The skill definitions and roles are learning focused and extend beyond just training or developing by taking into consideration the additional skills a learning professional requires today. It is easily aligned to both my own role and my team roles and is accessible from the mobile device making it quick and easy to complete. The resulting form provides an ‘at a glance look’ at where you are now and where you can further develop. I really like it. Well done LPI for giving us something practical and up to date and free!
I see the map as a great way to identify the skills gaps and/or strengths of any learning department by mapping internal capacity and expertise against a general capability framework.
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Team Assessment reports give you instant visual feedback on skills coverage, gaps and overlaps. Now it’s easy to see where you need to focus.
Powered by the LPI Capability Map
First launched in 2012, and refreshed in 2018 and 2022, the LPI Capability Map is helping thousands of individuals and teams identify their strengths and skills gaps, and understand what is needed to build future capability.
Available online 24/7, free for individual use, and regularly updated, the LPI Capability Map is the ultimate tool to help L&D people do their jobs better and prime them for success in this rapidly changing business world.
The assessment areas were developed by leading international experts in their respective fields of learning using the latest research, frameworks and real-world experience. These individual areas were normalised for terminology usage and then combined to form the LPI Capability Map. The final design has been tested and peer-reviewed collaboratively over several iterations.
The LPI Capability Map helps L&D professionals and teams understand where their skills gaps lie and how to plan for future success.
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