The Personal Improvement module is an application focused on helping you grow in your role by providing you with targeted recommendations, a view of personal progress, and a personal improvement backlog. This tool is designed to facilitate continuous improvement and mastery in your chosen field.

Personal improvement is a confidential self-assessment instrument designed by domain experts that will identify how well you are doing in a given professional area, suggest helpful resources for improvement, and provide a supportive community for continuous growth.

Getting started

To get started, you will take one of our assessment instruments. These assessments have been written by domain experts, and have been verified by data scientists. To find an assessment you would like to take, simply:

• Open Marketplace
• Locate the assessment you like and click on Add to your portfolio
• Click on Take a survey

The short video below shows you how to take a survey

Note that the answers are private and confidential and will not be viewed by anyone else unless you choose to share the results with a mentor.

Results

When you have completed the assessment, we will provide you with an intuitive overview of how you are doing across critical dimensions related to the topic and several recommendations will appear.

These curated resources are targeted specifically based on your responses. Reviewing these recommendations and following the guidance will help you grow in the areas where it is most important to you.

The pie chart provides a visual representation of your results. For a more detailed analysis, simply click on a result, and it will display how you answered each question.

In the video below we show you how to navigate to the results

Note that you can review each of the recommendations and choose which ones to turn into action items.

Sharing your results can be done in just a few clicks:

• Select a Coach sharing option
• Click on Add coach/advisor
• Add email address and click Done

The short video below shows you how to share your results

Note that your coach/advisor must be registered on this site.

Backlog

This is a journey we will take at your pace. When you decide to take action on some of the items, make sure to add them to your personal improvement backlog to ensure you keep track of your progress. To list more recommendations, click Load more recommendations. To add a recommendation, simply:

• Click on the plus sign next to the statement
• Locate the recommendation
• Click on the plus sign button next to the recommendation

You can also add your own notes here, for instance, if you discover something worth digging deeper into or discussing with the community.

Once you have completed an item, mark it done by clicking on the checkbox.

In the short video below we show you how to add recommendations to the backlog

Additionally, if you find something interesting that you would like to add to your backlog, you can add it as a new recommendation:

• Click on Add New Recommendation
• Name it
• Paste the link and click on Create Recommendation

The short video below shows you how to Add New Recommendations

Progress over time

Monitor how your skills are progressing broken down by all the critical dimensions within your context. On a regular basis, take another survey to check your results this time around.

Show World Index is an option that you can enable and compare your progress with the world’s index.

The video below shows the Progress over time screen

On the progress over time timeline, you will be able to track your results consistently and even see how you are doing compared to your peers.

Community

Do you have a question or a topic you would like to discuss further? Head on over to the community and start the conversation. Leverage the power of your peers, like-minded professionals, and experts to get to the bottom of things.

To create a new post, follow these steps:

• Open Community screen
• Click on New post
• Fill out the title and description
• Address it to the public or experts
• Enable the Anonymous option if needed
• Choose from the tags available (optional)
• And Save

In the short video below we show you how to create a new post

Note that experts are domain experts with demonstrated experience and deep knowledge in this particular topic. If experts are chosen, only these thought leaders will see your question.