DDI’s renowned leadership content seamlessly integrates with the Saba TalentSpace suite, and expert support from Saba’s professional services team will allow you to:

Engage employees and support their development with access to relevant, practical training that drives behavioral change

Transform how you acquire, promote and develop people by offering a common, company-wide language and framework for discussing competencies

Measure impact of development initiatives by using competencies to link your talent management processes to your business objectives

Accelerate and simplify development planning with access to more than 4,000 industry-proven development activities

Save money and effort by offering your employees best-in-class training at a fraction of the cost of traditional delivery

High performers and strong leaders are key to the success of any business. To build this kind of talent you need to support their development with high quality talent programs aligned to your business needs. Grow your people, build your organizational bench strength and align people to meaningful business objectives with a fully integrated competency-based employee and leadership package from Development Dimensions International (DDI) – an industry leader with more than 40 years of experience delivering research-backed talent management content.

TalentSpace DDI aligns an industry-leading competency model with learning and development activities to identify the criteria every employee needs to succeed in their role today. It also empowers your employees to develop their capabilities and skillsets to excel in future roles.

Saba TalentSpace DDI Competency Framework & Learning LibraryAccelerate business results by giving your workforce the tools they need to be high performers and great leaders

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“ We use DDI through our Saba solution. When our employees or managers create development plans in Saba, there’s over 4,000 activities that come up and are supported through DDI! They are low-cost, real things that employees can do that are beyond just go take a course. There are things like, work on a stretch assignment, how to give feedback better, and there are some solutions on how to actually do that. Creating a development plan from scratch can be intimidating for a lot of people, so providing managers with the ability to click on their competencies and then getting a list of development activities come up is very helpful. Sometimes they are great right out of the box, but sometimes they can be customized with a few little tweaks that really help the employer to offer actionable activity that they can work on.

The other way that we have used DDI is for writing our performance reviews. Our managers are best at running our stores and managing employees but they may not necessarily be good writers! What we like about Saba and DDI is the ability for our managers to write better reviews, based on ratings and comments that their employees may have received from their peers. So, from an HR standpoint we like when the manager has supporting comments for how they are providing these ratings. They are able to pull up a quick and easy list and look at comments based on how they rated the employee and use that as a good starting point for their review process, and then customize and tweak it so that it feels unique for the employee.

DUSTIN BERNTSEN, NORTHERN TOOL & EQUIPMENT

DDI Competency Framework: Build the workforce you envision with best-of-class competency development

Competencies are often referred to as the currency or language of talent management. The benefits of an

effective competency model are magnified when they are integrated throughout an organization’s talent

management practices – from hiring the best person to accelerating the onboarding of new hires to accurate

performance measurement to alignment of learning and role requirements to succession planning. Give your

workforce access to more than 100 practical and proven competencies developed over decades of industry

research by DDI. Seamlessly integrated with Saba’s TalentSpace suite, competencies include:

• Action-based descriptions that describe the associated target behaviors

• Behaviorally anchored rating scales that explain precise,

observable behaviors related to different performance

levels

• Performance comments and coaching tips that make

it easy for managers to support and develop their

employees

• Reading references pre-mapped to DDI competencies

to drive development

• More than 4,000 development activities that include

specific tasks and strategies for targeted growth

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DDI Leadership Learning Library: Build leadership skills at every level of your organization

The scarcity of critical skills and weakness of leadership pipelines are serious issues for business leaders today.

Learning has become a business-critical priority for increasing skills, remaining competitive and improving

employee engagement. Promote employee and leadership development throughout your organization with

a practical and comprehensive learning library. Pre-loaded into TalentSpace Learning* and pre-mapped to

competencies, the DDI learning library includes:

• Web-based training courses for coaching,

communication and leadership

• Mini-courses for employee and leader development

essentials

• Printable job aids to help put learning into action

*A license for TalentSpace Learning Starter Edition is provided to customers who do not license the TalentSpace Learning module.

Seamless Integration: Best-of-class content meets best-of-class technology

To create the greatest value and impact, a competency

framework and learning library must be strongly interwoven

into the talent lifecycle every step of the way, including job

descriptions, performance appraisals, development plans

and talent assessments. With TalentSpace DDI, best-of-class

competencies and learning content are seamlessly integrated

with our full talent management suite to provide a foundation

for all talent management activities and provide a clear path for

growth and development at all levels and roles.

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“ One thing I really love about TalentSpace is the integration with DDI learning module of classes. As we are conducting development plans or reviews throughout the year, we can tie it to the learning programs and enroll folks through TalentSpace right into a DDI course that they can take on the go via mobile and also on their computer.

We also love that it comes with the DDI suite of classes, which were some great, cutting-edge online courses for all sorts of leadership issues that we can tie into our performance reviews, development plans, one-on-one feedback meetings, etc. With a few clicks, we can enroll people in classes and this curriculum and learning can tie into their review process. It all fits together very seamlessly! It’s a nice mix of learning and development and performance all in one software!

TIM MULLIGAN, CHRO OF VULCAN INC.

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This powerful connection includes:

• Competency framework woven throughout the talent

management suite from job descriptions, learning courses

and development activities to performance appraisals,

360-degree reviews and talent assessments

• Performance comments, coaching tips, reading references,

training courses and development activities all pre-mapped

to DDI competencies to ensure high impact and targeted

performance feedback and development

• Development plans linked to easy-to-access learning and

development activities that are tied directly to performance

and development goals

Professional Services: Expert help every step of the way

You’re not in this alone. As part of the DDI

Competency Framework and Learning Library

offering, you’ll benefit from best practice guidance

on using DDI’s competencies, development

plans and learning content from a DDI-qualified

consultant. We’ll ensure you understand the basics

of the extensive DDI Competency Framework

and Learning Library and how to successfully

integrate competencies, development activities,

learning courses and reference materials

throughout the system.

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“ Integrating DDI’s competency framework into Saba TalentSpace is brilliant. It has saved us an incredible amount of work. With one single software platform, we are able to align our competency framework to ensure consistency in our performance assessments, workforce planning and people development programs. It simplifies the process for both HR and our managers, as they can use DDI’s content to make recommendations for learning activities as part of their employees’ learning plans. Plus, DDI’s reputation speaks for itself – it’s like we’ve just pulled the red Ferrari into the garage.

KIM ZIPRIK, MANAGER OF ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, NASCO, LLC

Every company says they want to engage, motivate and inspire their people. As we see it, the problem is not that they can’t – it’s that they don’t have the environment that really enables their top talent to thrive. Saba creates that environment, with talent development solutions that put people and teams in the driver’s seat of their own experience, while staying aligned to your business goals. And delivering deep performance insights that connect people to business success, like no one else can. Saba. The Talent Development Company.

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The Saba Experience:

For organizations requiring more assistance selecting competencies, conducting a more in-depth job analysis

or support with change management and competency rollout, Saba’s DDI-certified Consultants can support you

with the following services:

• Competency Profile Development via DDI Card Sort Analysis to help you define competencies for a specific

role, level or job family with DDI’s proven methodology

• Competency Framework Development to support you in quickly and accurately defining a comprehensive

competency model that will drive the key behaviors to help you in achieving your current or future business

priorities

• Competency Change Management Services to support you in properly rolling out the framework and

ensuring it is incorporated into all talent management activities

• Success Profile Analysis to provide a comprehensive framework for identifying the characteristics required

for success in a given position, ultimately ensuring development efforts are focused in the right areas

• Card Sort Analyst Certification to DDI-certify your own HR professionals, enabling them to translate

business drivers into required competencies and success criteria for each role in the organization and

define how they align to your HR programs