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Development

Development is where your growth plan and the company's learning library live, so that "you should work on delegation" turns into something with a resource behind it and a date on it.

It sits under People in the sidebar, with three rows beneath it: My plan, Learning library and Team resources. The same three appear as tabs across the top of the page.

Group
People
Where
rople.app/w/development, rople.app/w/development?screen=library, rople.app/w/development?screen=manager_hub
Who can open it
everybody, unless your workspace has narrowed it; Team resources is for managers, team leads and admins

My plan

Your own development plan, on one page.

  • My development focus. The one sentence that says what you are developing this cycle.
  • Development objectives. What you are working towards. Each objective is linked to a competency, has milestones, and can have learning resources attached.
  • Strengths. What you already do well.
  • Growth areas. Where you are deliberately putting effort.
  • Note from your manager. Shown when your manager has left a note on your plan. You are told in your Inbox when they do.

With nothing written yet, the page says there are no development objectives and asks you to sketch out what you want to grow this cycle.

Editing your plan

Press Edit plan beside Development objectives. The Edit development plan page has four sections:

  1. Focus Statement, one sentence.
  2. Development Objectives, each with its competency, milestones and resources.
  3. Strengths, picked from the competency list.
  4. Growth Areas, picked the same way.

Press Save plan to keep it, or Discard to leave without saving. What you type is held in the browser tab while you work, so a stray refresh does not lose it.

AI help. In workspaces where Ask Rople is switched on, the editor has an AI: Draft my development plan button that proposes a draft from your records. AI drafting is not available in every workspace; where it is not, the button does not appear and you write the plan yourself. A draft is a starting point to edit, never a finished plan.

Learning library

The learning assigned to you and everything you can pick up next.

  • A red notice at the top says how many mandatory resources are overdue.
  • The filters are All, Assigned to me, Mandatory and Completed. The Learning library tab carries a count of mandatory resources you have not finished.
  • Each card shows your progress and who shared it, with Start, Resume or Review depending on how far you are.
  • Add a resource shares something new with the library.
  • Browse the full library opens everything the workspace holds, searchable by title, skill, provider or tag.

Resources come in kinds such as course, article, video, book, workshop and podcast.

A resource

Opening a resource shows what it is, the problem it solves and the skill it targets, its details (provider, duration, whether it is mandatory or optional), and Your progress through its milestones.

Tick milestones as you finish them, or Mark All Done. A manager looking at a resource assigned to somebody can record a Manager Assessment of how much it helped: Strong improvement, Good progress, Some improvement, Needs more work or Recommend retake. That record is what tells the workspace which resources are worth assigning again.

Sharing a resource

Add a resource opens a three-step sheet:

  1. Resource Details — title, how long it takes, and checkpoints if it has any.
  2. Assignment & Link — mandatory or optional, a deadline, and what it links to. Mandatory work is tracked in the review cycle; optional is a recommendation.
  3. Recipients — who gets it.

Everybody it is assigned to is told in their Inbox, and it appears on their plan.

Team resources

For managers, team leads and admins. It shows the learning assigned to your direct reports.

  • Total Assigned, Completed and Overdue across the team.
  • Team learning progress, one row per person.
  • Pick a team member to see their focus and their assigned resources, each marked complete, in progress or not started.
  • Assign Resource gives one resource to several people with the same deadline.
  • Full Library opens the whole library.

If nobody reports to you yet, the tab says so rather than showing empty counts.

How it connects

  • An assigned resource and a manager's note both arrive in your Inbox.
  • Where somebody stands on potential and succession is in Talent.
  • Mandatory learning is tracked through Reviews.
  • The Development area of the Manager Cockpit reads your plan's progress.
  • The Development Plans report in People Analytics exports plans across your people.

Common questions

Who can see my plan? You, and the people responsible for you. Your manager reads it from Team resources.

Can I add a resource the company does not have? Yes. Add a resource puts it in the library for everyone it is shared with.

Why is there no AI button in my plan editor? AI drafting is not available in every workspace. The plan works the same without it.