Individual Development Plans
Turn employee development into workforce capability
Create individual development plans (IDPs) tied to career aspirations, skills to develop, and relevant learning— helping employees build meaningful capabilities, managers coach with better context, and organizations strengthen workforce readiness.
Give employees a clear path forward
Help employees define where they want to grow, identify the skills that can move them forward, and create structured development goals tied to specific milestones and measurable growth.
Deliver learning aligned to real development needs
Recommend learning based on employee aspirations, selected skills, current proficiency, and role context—not a one-size-fits-all curriculum.
Connect individual growth to workforce readiness
Connect employee development, learning, and performance in one system, giving managers more context for coaching conversations and HR greater visibility into how development investments are building the capabilities the business needs next.
How it works
Define the development focus
Give employees a structured way to define where they want to grow and the skills they want to build. Development starts with the employee’s goals and interests, rather than a generic development plan.
- Career aspirations and development goals captured in the Talent Profile
- Create skill-based or custom development goals
- Select from existing, desired, or AI-recommended skills to develop
Build an actionable plan for growth
Turn development priorities into concrete next steps employees can put into practice. Betterworks recommends development actions employees can review, refine, and add directly to their plan.
- Structure development around clear goals, activities, and progress
- AI-recommended development actions based on role, selected skill, and proficiency
- Add recommended or custom actions as development milestones
Connect development goals directly to learning
Surface relevant learning courses while employees are creating their goals, making it easy to move from identifying a development priority to finding resources that help build it — all in one system.
- AI-recommended learning course from connected LMS platforms
- Recommendations informed by the employee’s development goal and skill context
- Add selected learning directly to development goals as milestones
Keep development connected to ongoing coaching
Make development part of the broader performance experience instead of a once-a-year planning exercise. With goals, skill priorities, learning, and progress visible to managers, development stays part of ongoing coaching and growth conversations.
- Connect development goals to the Talent Profile and broader goals experience
- Track progress through completed actions and learning milestones
- Give managers & HR leaders visibility into employee development activity and skill priorities
Define the development focus
Give employees a structured way to define where they want to grow and the skills they want to build. Development starts with the employee’s goals and interests, rather than a generic development plan.
- Career aspirations and development goals captured in the Talent Profile
- Create skill-based or custom development goals
- Select from existing, desired, or AI-recommended skills to develop
Build an actionable plan for growth
Turn development priorities into concrete next steps employees can put into practice. Betterworks recommends development actions employees can review, refine, and add directly to their plan.
- Structure development around clear goals, activities, and progress
- AI-recommended development actions based on role, selected skill, and proficiency
- Add recommended or custom actions as development milestones
Connect development goals directly to learning
Surface relevant learning courses while employees are creating their goals, making it easy to move from identifying a development priority to finding resources that help build it — all in one system.
- AI-recommended learning course from connected LMS platforms
- Recommendations informed by the employee’s development goal and skill context
- Add selected learning directly to development goals as milestones
Keep development connected to ongoing coaching
Make development part of the broader performance experience instead of a once-a-year planning exercise. With goals, skill priorities, learning, and progress visible to managers, development stays part of ongoing coaching and growth conversations.
- Connect development goals to the Talent Profile and broader goals experience
- Track progress through completed actions and learning milestones
- Give managers & HR leaders visibility into employee development activity and skill priorities
AI That Actually Helps
Personalized development for every employee
Betterworks AI uses employee context to deliver development guidance tailored to each person—helping them understand what skills to build, what actions to take, and what learning can support their growth. Employees get a clearer path forward, while organizations can scale more personalized development across the workforce.
See it in actionAI Features
Suggest relevant skills to develop based on signals from feedback, conversations, and role context
Recommend personalized development steps based on role, selected skill, skill level, and existing capabilities
Surface relevant learning from connected LMS platforms, including Udemy Business, LinkedIn Learning, and Docebo
Why companies choose Betterworks
Betterworks helps organizations move from fragmented performance processes to a real-time system for alignment, coaching, and talent decisions. The result is faster decisions, better talent outcomes, stronger manager effectiveness, and a clearer link between people, performance, and business impact.
90+
NPS Score
99.9%
Uptime
24/7
Priority Support
"Partnering with Betterworks has allowed us to enable year-round performance conversations with our workforce. A dynamic platform where we can modify goals, track progress, and get feedback on a regular basis."
— VP of Talent Development, Intuit
"It's a really easy way to create and manage goals, document impactful conversations, and capture all the important parts of 1:1s."
— MaKayla Bigham, Sr. HRIS Analyst, Dairy Farmers of America
Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
What is individual development plan software?
Individual development plan software helps employees document their career aspirations, identify the skills they want to build, and create goals and actions that support their growth.
Betterworks goes beyond a static development-plan template by connecting employee aspirations, skills, development goals, AI-recommended actions, and relevant learning content in one experience.
How do Betterworks Individual Development Plans work?
Employees begin within their Betterworks Talent Profile, where they can capture career aspirations, identify skills they want to develop or strengthen, and create development goals.
They can add AI-recommended development actions or relevant courses from connected LMS platforms as milestones, creating a practical plan for what to do next.
How are development goals different from performance goals?
Performance goals typically focus on the outcomes an employee is expected to deliver in their role. Development goals focus on the skills, experiences, and capabilities an employee wants or needs to build.
Betterworks keeps these goals distinct while allowing both to live within the same broader performance and talent experience.
Can Betterworks connect development plans to our LMS?
Betterworks can surface relevant learning content from your preferred LMS during the development goal-creation process.
Employees can browse recommended courses and add selected learning content to their development goals as milestones.
How does AI support development planning?
AI recommends concise, actionable steps for developing a selected skill and helps identify relevant courses from connected learning catalogs. Employees remain in control: they review each recommendation and choose what to add to the development goal.
Can managers collaborate on employee development plans?
Managers can view development goals within the broader Betterworks goals experience and use that context in ongoing coaching conversations. They can also create Professional Development goals for individual employees, teams, or departments through the existing goals workflow, subject to organizational permissions and configuration.
Is Betterworks designed for mid-market and enterprise organizations?
Yes. Betterworks is designed to support growing and complex organizations that need a consistent development experience alongside enterprise security, governance, integrations, implementation services, and support.
