This guide explains how to leverage the Leadership Roadmap feature in the Sounding Board app as a manager. It allows you to collaborate with your direct reports on their leadership development goals, suggest goals for them, and provide comments to support their growth. The guide provides step-by-step instructions on navigating the app, viewing shared goals, accessing goal details, commenting on goals, suggesting goals, and deleting suggested goals. This guide is useful for managers who want to actively engage with their team members' leadership development.
Interactive Walkthrough
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Written Walkthrough
1. Navigate to https://coaching.soundingboardinc.com and log in as a manager.
The Leadership Roadmap, a feature in the Sounding Board app, allows your direct reports to chart their leadership development objectives and track their advancement. It serves as a guiding framework for their developmental journeys.
As you engage with your team members, you can use the Leadership Roadmap to collaborate on their goals. Because we want to empower leaders to take ownership of their development, your direct reports are responsible for finalizing the creation of a goal and mapping out the goal details.
As a manager, you have the ability to "suggest a goal" for your direct report. This suggestion will be shared with them and their coach, and they can choose to accept it and turn it into a goal for themselves. Once your team member has finalized the goal creation, you'll be able to collaborate with them on the goals they've shared with you via comments to support their growth and development.
2. Navigation
When you are on your direct report's profile -
- Click "Roadmap"
Note: You can navigate to your direct report's profile by clicking on their hyperlinked name across the platform.
3. Shared Goals
At any time, you can view your direct report's Leadership Roadmap and review their goals. To view details -
- Click the specific goal
Note: You can only see goals that your direct report has decided to share with you. If no goals are present, then none have been shared with you yet.
4. Goal Details
You will see the shared goal's title and description in more detail, as well as any available comments.
To see further information-
- Click âšī¸ info button
You can then see further information -
- Leadership Capabilities: You can think of leadership capabilities as combined sets of skills and mindsets used to impact the daily business of the organization more strategically as a leader. Leadership capabilities are embedded throughout our platform as they provide a frame and focus for leadership development.
- Business Outcomes: Business outcomes refer to the tangible results or consequences achieved through the execution of strategic initiatives or the attainment of specific goals.
- Personal Impact: Personal impact refers to the transformative effects experienced by individuals within the organization due to the achievement or pursuit of the goal.
Note: click anywhere on the main page for the right-hand details to be hidden again.
5. Comment on Goal
After reviewing the goal, if you would like to add a comment for your direct report,
- Click the "Add a comment..." and enter in your comment
- Click "Comment" to save the comment
6. Edit or Delete Comment
If needed, you can edit or delete comments which you have added to a goal -
- âī¸ - Edit Comment
- đī¸ - Delete Comment
7. Suggest Goal
If you have a goal you believe will serve your direct report well, you can suggest a goal for them -
- Click "Suggest Goal"
- Enter "What is the name of this goal?"
- Enter "What do you suggest to accomplish?"
- Click "Submit"
Note: Once you suggest the goal, if they decide to pursue it, they will finish setting up the goal as outlined in Creating a Goal in the Leadership Roadmap.
8. Delete A Suggested Goal
You have the ability to delete a goal you suggested, if it has not yet been accepted by your direct report.
- Click đī¸ delete icon
- Confirm by clicking "No, Keep Goal" or "Yes, Delete Goal"
đĄ Tip: Further Manager Resources
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