Simplifying talent management, SumTotal’s Talent Expansion suite helps organizations transform employee engagement into organizational performance by embedding personalized content and development opportunities directly into talent workflows.

With engagement and culture cited as the most important priority for HR, according to Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2015 report, organizations must build an enticing, consumer-inspired workplace experience that will increase employee motivation, productivity and retention.

SumTotal’s latest Talent Expansion® suite, designed to optimize individual and organizational performance by helping customers build workplace cultures that promote continuous, self-directed learning and development.

This release by Skillsoft, a global leader in learning and talent management builds upon the company’s earlier releases to feature deeper tighter integration of content content with SumTotal’s Talent Expansion platform and solutions to deliver a more streamlined, hyper-personalized user experience.

Humair Ghauri, Senior Vice President of Products and Technology, SumTotal says, “We’re bringing together talent analytics, individualized skill and competency gap insight, and the ability to identify and map development needs against career aspirations — all within an intuitive, modern interface. The newest enhancements to the Talent Expansion applications support customers on their journey as a ‘self-developing organization’ by seamlessly connecting people to the learning and curated content that makes development plans meaningful and actionable.”

Major enhancements in the upgraded talent management suite include:

• Position Fit: This new feature helps employees maximize performance within their role by providing information on skills, learning and competencies within the context of the expectations of their current position in a single view.

The Position Fit feature provides actionable insight that prepares both managers and individuals to identify meaningful development opportunities that can close competency gaps and advance employees in their career.

• Streamlined learner experience: This makes it easier for employees to identify, prioritize and launch learning while staying productive. The new one-click registration capability allows learners to quickly review and enrol in all courses in a curriculum, and provides the flexibility to interact individually with each component.

Mobile push notifications make it easy for people to stay on top of the learning they need with enhanced visibility into learning assignments. Additionally, a configurable digest notification provides a simple overview of all assigned, expired, decertified, due and overdue activities in a consolidated email.

• New SumTotal Foundation Framework: This supports the rapid development of new, compelling user interfaces that can easily be branded, empowering organizations to present a highly engaging talent management experience.

New visual progress dials enable users at all levels of the organization to easily see the status of talent management initiatives. The SumTotal Foundation ensures that organizations can deliver an experience that seamlessly blends talent management processes and learning experiences and functions across a range of devices and platforms while conforming to common industry accessibility standards.

This release lays the foundation for future generations of the SumTotal platform that will aid organizations in moving their organizations forward by supporting technology-enabled self-development. Dozens of pivotal enhancements and a personalized, consumer-grade experience allows learning to occur naturally and contextually as part of the daily flow of work.

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