Employees’ personal and professional development plays a crucial role in their satisfaction and effectiveness. Targeted activities such as training, mentoring and challenging assignments can foster their development and retain high-performing individuals.
The functionality of the 9-box grid provides valuable insights into employee potential and performance and serves as a valuable tool for designing development initiatives. For example, employees positioned, based on their competency achievement and target fulfilment, in the middle quadrant of the grid can be guided to select relevant training courses, or they can receive coaching to improve specific skills.
In addition, the 9-box grid serves as a mechanism for identifying talent. Employees who are in the upper right quadrant demonstrate exceptional growth potential and show remarkable success in their roles. Often referred to as the “stars” of the organization, these individuals have valuable knowledge and experience that they can use to mentor others. They are also candidates for future leadership.
Monitoring progress by period
Functionality allows you to track employees’ movement on the 9-box grid and monitor how competency ratings and success in achieving goals have changed over different time periods (quarterly, semi-annually, annually, etc.). The graphical representation of movements on the grid provides leaders, management, and HR with a comprehensive view of how employees are performing over time and if there are any variances that need to be addressed.
