As the economy grows and the number of candidates available to fill management positions falls, internal development of managers and executives will become a survival process for many organizations.

Successful organizations will ensure an on-going source of talent by:

• implementing the most effective development processes and techniques
• integrating, at least, Performance Management, Development Management, and Talent Management
• using technology to deploy, manage, monitor, and measure the development processes
• collecting and utilizing a sophisticated set of data about development; to continuously identify opportunities for individual and process improvement, as well as to identify the best talent.

Comprehensive Functionality
Development Pulse^TM offers powerful functionality including the following:

• Extensive security, controlling what people can see, update, do, search, extract and report (Different menus can be configured for individuals, their managers, executives and HR Administrators.)
• Employee details - extensive range of single fields such as name, gender, position (To enable exchange and sharing of data with your HRIS, as well as maintenance of additional data not currently held)
• Employee resume – extensive range of multiple records such as languages, work history, future roles, aspirations (Again, to enable exchange and sharing of data with your HRIS)
• Competency templates (To support Competency Planning, Competency Assessment, Development Planning and Job Profiling)
• Intuitive data entry screens with configurable ‘Help & Information’
• Personal Development Planning
  (e.g. setting, approving and updating individual development plans and their alignment with goals, competencies, and potential roles)
• Sourcing Development Activities from Succession Planning, Feedback, Performance Management etc.
• Personal Development Monitoring
  (e.g. tracking development, sending e-mail reminders, and escalating)
• Personal Development Reviewing
  (e.g. reviewing development activity, completion and process effectiveness)
• Searching for candidates using the powerful Query Manager
• Creating ad-hoc reports easily and quickly using the Extract Manager
• Producing individual and aggregate reports.