Development activity

A development activity is any activity that is geared towards a resource's personal or professional development. A standard example of a development activity is an instructor-taught course, but the concept of a development activity encompasses many more types of development than just classroom learning. Other types can be mentoring, shadowing, on-the job learning, pursuing an experience-based degree, taking an educational trip, Competency Inventory, which is a formal assessment of an individual resource’s competencies, and so on.

The types of development activities that your organization must track may also depend on local legal requirements.

Formal development activities become the basis of a catalog of development activities for which resources can register. Not all development activities must be displayed in a catalog.

Each development activity is associated with a topic, which represents the subject matter of the development activity (for example, the topic can be SPANISH, the development activity can be SPANISH 1).

A development activity can be associated with multiple sessions. For example SPANISH 1 can have a session for each quarter of the year. Resources are registered for specific sessions.

Note: If your organization uses Infor Learning Management, you will create all development activities with sessions in Infor Learning Management, where the term course is the equivalent of a development activity, and the term event is the equivalent of a session. Infor Learning Management courses will be imported to Development Planning as development activities. Infor Learning Management events will not be imported to Development Planning.