Employees can create growth areas to monitor and document progress on assigned competencies. Growth areas can be worked on for a duration of time to assist in career development.
Before you start
Employees can create a growth area even if they have not been assigned to a track.
Managers can also create growth areas for a direct report. Learn more in Create a Growth Area for a Direct Report.
Lattice will send an automatic reminder via email, Slack, and/or Teams (based on user preference) to complete any growth area actions one week before the due date.
Growth areas are auto-saved and marked as a draft if not published. Drafted growth areas will not be visible to anyone until it is published.
This article covers the following topics:
Create a growth area
Navigate to Grow > Developement Plans.
Scroll to Growth Areas > Select + New.
Give your growth area a Title.
Add a competency to your growth area by selecting a competency within your own or another published track.
Add a Description of what you need to accomplish to improve your growth area.
Under Growth period, select the duration of focus for your area.
(Optional) Add a review response to your growth area. Learn more in Link a Review Response to Your Growth Area.
Add actions and due dates needed to complete or improve the growth area.
Select Share.
Note: The growth period is not a hard deadline but a target date for focus.
Create a growth area with competencies in your track
If you have been assigned a track, Lattice will show you the expectation for your current level and the next level up on your track by selecting the track under Expectations.
Navigate to Grow > Development plans.
Under Individual developmeent plan > Career Track, select the name of your job track.
Navigate to the competency of interest and select Create a growth area.
Follow Steps 3-7 above to finish creating the growth area.
Create a growth area with competencies from a different track
If given visibility by an admin, you may have access to all published tracks within the company. Creating a growth area around a different track allows you to create your own career path that does not necessarily involve moving from one level to another within your same track.
Navigate to the Grow > Development plans. .
Under Individual development plan > Career Track, select Browse all tracks.
Navigate to the desired job track and click the eye icon in the right-hand corner of the job level interest.
Navigate to the competency and select Create a growth area.
Follow Steps 3-7 above to finish creating the growth area.
Next, learn how to update your growth area's progress.