Create a Growth Area

Creating a growth area as an employee

Growth areas help monitor and document your progress while improving on your assigned competencies. Lattice allows you to create areas of focus called growth areas that you can work on for a duration of time to assist your career development. 

Before you start

• You can create a growth area even if you have not been assigned to a track.
• Managers can also create actions 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 
• Create a Growth Area with competencies in your track
• Create a Growth Area with competencies from a different track

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 upon 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 upon 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 Grow > View individual development plan.
2. Under Expectations, select the name of your job track.
3. Navigate to the competency of interest and select Add as a growth area.
4. 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 account 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 Grow > View individual development plan.
2. Under Expectations, select the name of your job track.
3. Select Browse tracks.
4. Navigate to the desired job track and click the eye icon in the right-hand corner of the role of interest.
5. Navigate to the competency of interest and select Add as a growth area.
6. Follow Steps 3-7 above to finish creating the growth area.

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