Personal activities

A personal activity is an unofficial agreement between you and your manager or mentor to perform a task. For example, a personal activity might be to attend a professional conference. Personal activities are not linked to catalog activities and sessions. The learning manager never sees personal activities.

If you create a personal activity for yourself, it is not required. Your manager or mentor can create a personal activity for you as either required or not required. Your manager or mentor can also change personal activities that you create from not required to required. When a personal activity is required, you cannot withdraw from it. When a personal activity is not required, you can withdraw from it, and your manager or mentor can waive or cancel it.

A personal activity is always created with a status of Confirmed Activity and is displayed along with your catalog activities on your tasks list and your development plan. The actions that you, your manager, or your mentor can perform on a personal activity are similar to those performed on activities, except that there is no approval or registration involved.

These personal-activity actions are possible for you as an employee:

  • Update

  • Copy

  • Withdraw from a non-required personal activity

  • Mark as finished, to be completed by your manager or mentor

  • Revert a finished personal activity to the Confirmed Activity status

  • Associate the activity with a goal. For example, you have a personal goal to enhance your public speaking skills. To meet this goal, you create a personal activity to join a debating club. Your personal activity can be associated with the public speaking goal.

Your manager or mentor can take these actions on your personal activities:

  • Update
  • Cancel non-required activities and waive required activities
  • Complete or fail to complete non-required activities

A manager can also copy to create a new personal activity and associate your personal activities with goals.

If your performance appraisal pane contains your activities, the appraisal will include both your development and personal activities. If future activities are contained in the appraisal form, you can create a personal activity from the appraisal form to be included in the next performance review period. Your manager can also create a personal activity from your appraisal.