Whereas the discovery stream focusses on knowledge training, both upskill and goals focus on skills. When do you use which feature?
There are a few crucial differences in e.g. experience, distribution and timing that you can consider. Please see the table below for more details. Ideally the upskill feature is used for essential (skill) training for employees that learn to master their job. Goals is designed to support personal development.
Cheat sheet
| Upskill | Goals |
💡 What
| Structures skill training using personalised categories | Structures growth paths using personalised goals |
🎓 Learning need
| Linked to essential training | Linked to personal development |
👩🎓 Motivation
| New skills help me master my job
| New skills help me achieve a professional goal
|
🚗 Drive
| No commitment needed
| Learner actively commits |
🎮Experience
| Focus on tracking progress and achievement within categories | Focus on career development and tracking progress towards a goal
|
📚 Content | No standard content (yet) | 50 ready-to-use growth exercises
|
🎛️ Distribution
| No max. in categories | Max. 3 categories per goal |
💰 Investment
| Implementation costs,
| Implementation costs, |
⏱️ Timing
| ‘Maturing’ learning organisations
| ‘Mature’ learning organisations
|
⚙️ Implementation | Part of Growth platform, so easy to combine with certificates
| Part of Level Up add-on, so easy to combine with XP and Avatar |