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Create a Growth Area

Emily Woolf
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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

  1. On the Home page, click on Create growth area.
  2. Give your growth area a Title.
  3. Add a competency to your growth area by selecting a competency within your own or another published track.
  4. Add a Description of what you need to accomplish to improve your growth area.
  5. Under Growth period, select the duration of focus for your area.
  6. (Optional) Add a review response to your growth area. Learn more in Link a Review Response to Your Growth Area.
  7. Add actions and due dates needed to complete or improve the growth area.
  8. 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.

  1. Navigate to the Grow page.
  2. Under Expectations, select the name of your job track.
  3. Navigate to the competency of interest and select Create a growth area.
  4. Follow Steps 3-7 above to finish creating the growth area.

An example of an employee's individual development plan open to the track's expectations and competenies. A square highlights the Current Track selected, People Operations. An arrow points to the button Add as a 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.

  1. Navigate to the Grow page. 
  2. Under Expectations, select Browse all tracks.
  3. Navigate to the desired job track and click the eye icon in the right-hand corner of the job level interest.
  4. Navigate to the competency and select Create a growth area.
  5. Follow Steps 3-7 above to finish creating the growth area.

View of a track matrix. An arrow points to the eye icon next to the job level Customer Advocate Level 1.

Next, learn how to update your growth area's progress. 

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