Here is how being visible on the Skills Development Platform enhances your learning, networking, and career advancement.
Are you making the most of your professional development by being visible?
To support the continuous development of professionals in the services sector and to help them propel in their careers, PM Forum and Managing Partners’ Forum’s Skills Development Platform helps them to enhance their CPD (Continuing Professional Development), grow their skills, and advance their careers. This platform is a rich repository of valuable content, interactive groups, networking events, and training workshops that help professionals learn essential skills in today’s evolving landscape. However, the true power of the Skills Development Platform is unlocked when members choose to be visible.
Visibility on the platform means that other members can see your name, photo, job title, firm, and city, while your phone number and email address remain private unless you approve a buddy request. This visibility allows you to fully engage with the platform’s interactive features, such as joining and creating groups, sharing messages, and collaborating on content. Being visible transforms your experience from passive content consumption to active participation, enhancing your professional growth and network.
Here’s why visibility on the Skills Development Platform is crucial for your professional growth:
Engagement and networking
The platform’s primary strength lies in its ability to foster connections among professionals from different firms and disciplines. When you are visible, you can join, create, and manage private or open groups. This visibility allows you to share messages and content items, expanding your professional network and opening up opportunities for collaboration and support.
Enhanced learning opportunities
Visible members can share learning notes and evaluated content with others, making the learning experience richer and more collaborative. This sharing is restricted to those who have made their profiles visible, ensuring that interactions are meaningful and focused.
Increased recognition
Activity on the platform is meticulously tracked, from CPD time and learning points to content consumption and task progression. Being visible enhances your recognition within the community, making it easier to showcase your achievements. Monthly digital trophies and prize draws for free places at PM Forum’s annual conference are awarded to high achievers, providing tangible incentives for engagement.
Support and mentorship
Visibility allows you to connect with support groups, including leaders, L&D professionals, mentors, and peers. These groups are crucial for providing personalised support, feedback, and guidance, which are essential for professional development.
Performance reviews and development plans
The platform supports performance reviews by providing detailed records of your learning activities, including time spent on content and tasks. Visibility helps you share this progress with your manager, making performance reviews more informed and effective.
The Platform features that enhance professional development
Informs and enhances performance reviews:
The platform leverages findings from the joint PM Forum/ICON APAC annual salary and performance reviews survey conducted in June 2023 to enhance performance reviews.
Tracks the journey of the idea:
From content selection to formal evaluation, personal insights, set tasks, manager review, and goal completion, the platform meticulously tracks the development process.
Access to £10m+ of specialist content:
With over £10 million worth of unique specialist content curated over 30 years, the platform offers an unparalleled resource for professional learning.
SkillsetFreeflow℠:
For those who prefer organic learning experiences over structured queries and competency frameworks, the platform provides SkillsetFreeflow℠, enabling discovery and chance encounters.
Accelerates learning:
Rapid induction, alerts, and tracking of content and task time ensure that learning is efficient and impactful.
Comparative analysis:
The platform allows comparison of actual and target time for both hard and soft skillsets, content, and tasks.
Learning point gamification:
Engagement is enhanced through gamification, with trophies, prizes, and contests rewarding active participation.
Evidence-based CPD:
CPD time and Skillset proficiency certificates are available for any period, providing tangible proof of development.
Support groups:
Facilitates support from leaders, L&D, mentors, and peers, with controlled access permissions to ensure focused assistance.
Global community initiative:
Supports personal goals, external ROI comparisons, and learning history transfers, fostering a global community-based learning environment.
Steps to be visible on the Skills Development Platform
- Log in to the Skills Development Platform.
- When prompted, choose ‘Make me visible’ on the welcome message.
- Ensure your profile is up-to-date:
-Click on the avatar in the navigation bar.
-Add your profile picture.
– Confirm your contact details.
- Select ‘Visible’ in the dropdown menu.
