With Saba and DDI, You Can:

Engage employees with access to relevant, practical training that drives behavioral change

Transform how you acquire, promote and develop your people with a company-wide framework for competencies

Drive value more quickly and easily with research-backed learning paths

Save money and effort by offering your employees best-in-class learning and development at a fraction of the cost

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. But in order for employees to acquire these skills through learning and development, they must first have a clear understanding of what that skill is and what it means to be proficient in it. And building a comprehensive skills library or competency model, as well as supplying the relevant learning content for leadership development, can be a large undertaking for any organization.

DDI Competency Framework & Learning LibraryMake a strategic impact on your talent development programs

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That is why Saba’s platform is built to fully support the competency framework and learning library package from Development Dimensions International (DDI) – an industry leader with more than 40 years of experience delivering research-backed talent development content. DDI offers hundreds of pre-packaged learning courses and development tasks aligned to a comprehensive competency framework and library. With DDI’s foundational leadership development solution, you can quickly and easily build a common language for competencies across your organization, and immediately offer employees impactful learning experiences directly in Saba Cloud that will allow them to build the capabilities they need for their current and future roles.

What’s included in DDI’s Pre-packaged Leadership Development Offering?

DDI Competency Framework

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

industry research by DDI. Seamlessly supported by Saba Cloud, competencies from DDI include:

• Action-based descriptions that describe the associated target behavior

• Behaviorally anchored rating scales that explain precise, observable behaviors related to different

proficiency levels

• Comments and coaching tips that make it easy for managers to understand and evaluate competencies

• Thousands of development tasks pre-mapped to DDI competencies in order to drive purposeful,

competency-based development

DDI Learning Library

Promote employee leadership development throughout your

organization with a practical and comprehensive learning library.

Seamlessly supported by Saba Cloud, the DDI learning library

includes:

• Web-based training courses for coaching, communication,

leadership and more

• Mini courses for employee and leadership development

essentials

• Printable job aids to put learning into action

• Learning content pre-mapped to DDI competencies in

order to drive purposeful, competency-based development

”“ One thing I really love about Saba is the availability of DDI learning content.

DDI comes with cutting edge online courses for all sorts of leadership issues that we can easily tie into our performance reviews, development plans, 1 to 1 meetings, etc. 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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Get started quickly: Instant access to research-backed learning paths

The learning library and competency framework from DDI is fully

supported in Saba Cloud and can be easily imported into the system.

With DDI, learning content and development tasks are pre-mapped

to competencies, allowing you to give employees instant access to

research-backed, practical and focused learning paths in Saba Cloud.

As a result, you can spend less time creating and administering custom

learning paths, and more time optimizing your learning programs with

best-in-class learning content from DDI. Learning paths can be assigned

to employees or recommended based on their current role, future role

or areas of interest. Employees can also search for learning paths within

the system and add them to their plans at any time.

Enable leadership development: Give employees a clear path for growing in their careers

With Saba and DDI, you can easily promote employee

leadership and career development throughout the

organization. Leveraging Saba’s Career Planning capabilities,

you can empower your employees to create personalized

career paths for future roles they wish to have in the short- (1-3

years), mid- (3-5 years) and long-term. Using the competency

framework and learning paths from DDI, Saba’s system will

automatically recommend relevant learning paths that will help

the employee acquire the competencies they need to reach

their career goals. By leveraging the competency framework

and learning library from DDI, you’re providing employees with

a common language for competencies that will give them clear

expectations for their career.

Drive performance outcomes: Ensure employees have the competencies they need to achieve their goals

Saba offers a comprehensive talent development environment that

enables employees and teams to continuously learn and develop,

while staying aligned to the goals of business. With Saba,

employees can set goals that align to and drive the corporate

strategy. For each goal, Saba’s system will identify relevant

learning activities from DDI that will help employees develop the

competencies they need to acquire to achieve their goals and

move the needle on business performance.

Figure 1: Easily access DDI’s robust learning library and competency framework within Saba Cloud.

Figure 3: Enrich the goal setting experience with pre-populated content from DDI by enabling employees to identify the competencies, learning

and development tasks they need to do to achieve their goals.

Figure 2: DDI gives employees a common framework for competencies, so they can build career plans for the short, mid and long term.

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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You’re not in this alone. As part of the DDI Competency Framework and Learning Library offering, you’ll benefit

from best-practice guidance for 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.

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