✖
Find your portal
Career development glossary & common definitions
Demystify key career development concepts. From Career Coaching to Continuous Learning and beyond, discover how LMS platforms empower individuals in goal setting, skill development, and navigating diverse career paths. Explore insights into professional growth, mentorship, and upskilling, unlocking the potential of lifelong learning with the aid of LMS resources.
Career coaching
LMS features can support career coaching initiatives by providing resources, assessments, and progress tracking tools for individuals under coaching guidance.
More Career coaching
Career development plan
LMS tools can align with individual career development plans, offering access to courses and resources tailored to specific career goals.
Career path
An LMS can map out career-related courses and training programs, guiding individuals through the necessary steps to advance along their chosen career path.
Certification program
LMS can host certification programs, tracking progress and completion of courses leading to professional certifications.
Competency assessment
LMS platforms may include tools for competency assessments, helping individuals and organizations identify strengths and areas for improvement.
Continuous learning
LMS fosters a culture of continuous learning by providing a diverse range of courses that individuals can access at any stage of their careers.
More Continuous learning
Career pathing
A predefined route that individuals can follow within an organization to advance their careers, often involving different roles, responsibilities, and skill development.
Certification
A process for increasing technical competencies through studies, testing, and practical application while also working toward a recognized designation.
More Certification
Collaborative learning
Platform features in an LMS that allow learners to engage in shared activities, projects, and peer-to-peer discussions fostering collective knowledge creation, collaboration, and real-time communication to enhance the overall learning experience.
More Human connection
Development
The acquisition of knowledge, skill, or attitude that prepares people for new directions or responsibilities. It may also refer to the third phase in ADDIE, in which training materials and content are selected and developed based on learning objectives.
Emotional intelligence
The ability to accurately identify and understand one's own emotional reactions and those of others. This eighth intelligence, based on Gardner's multiple intelligence theory, was popularized by Daniel Goleman in his book Emotional Intelligence.
Employee development
The strategic and continuous process of enhancing the knowledge, skills, abilities, and overall capabilities of individuals within an organization.
More Employee development
Feedback loop
LMS platforms often include feedback mechanisms, facilitating regular communication between learners and supervisors or peers.
Goal setting
LMS features can support goal setting by allowing users to track progress toward learning objectives and career milestones.
Job enrichment
LMS can provide resources for job enrichment, offering courses and materials that make job roles more challenging and fulfilling.
Job rotation
LMS can support job rotation initiatives by offering training programs and resources for employees transitioning between roles.
More Skills development
Learning pathway
LMS platforms enable the creation of structured learning pathways, guiding users through a sequence of courses aligned with their career development goals.
More Learning pathway
Lifelong learning
LMS platforms encourage lifelong learning by providing a vast library of courses and resources that individuals can access throughout their careers.
More Lifelong learning
Mentorship program
LMS platforms may facilitate mentorship programs by providing a platform for mentor-mentee communication and access to shared learning resources.
More Mentorship program
Personal development plan (PDP)
LMS tools can align with personal development plans, providing a repository of courses and resources for individual growth.
Performance review
LMS can track and report on user performance, providing data for performance reviews and insights into areas for improvement.
More Analytics
Professional development
LMS platforms offer a centralized space for accessing a variety of professional development courses, allowing users to enhance their skills and knowledge conveniently.
Real-time learning
Where instructors and students interact in a specific virtual place, through a specific online medium, at a specific time.
Resume building
Creating a document outlining one’s professional experience, education, and skills.
Skill development
Acquiring new skills or improving existing ones relevant to one's career aspirations.
More Skill development
Succession planning
LMS can aid in identifying and developing future leaders by offering targeted training programs and tracking the progress of high-potential employees.
Synchronous learning
If you’re new to the world of learning management systems, the common language and acronyms used daily can easily become overwhelming.
Upskilling
LMS can offer upskilling opportunities through a variety of courses, ensuring employees acquire the necessary skills to meet evolving job requirements.
More Upskilling
Workplace reskilling
LMS supports reskilling initiatives by offering targeted courses that align with changing job roles and technological advancements.
More Product training
More IT skills
More Sales enablement
