Capabilities

Personalized development for everyone.

Define the capabilities that matter to your business to show people how they’re performing, how they can improve, and where they can go next.

One language for performance.
One platform to drive meaningful conversations.

Capabilities shows your people what they need to succeed with development tied to their role and goals — not just ratings.

Forget the boring old skills taxonomies

Performance should impact business.
Employees should know how they can have an impact.
That’s why Capabilities matter.

Have productive performance conversations.

Report on impact, not ratings.

Help learners see their future.

Understand what people actually do.

Acorn PLMS’s new, free capability framework builder.

Get started with Capabilities today

Capability Assistant does the grunt work of identifying, defining and assigning competencies to job roles in your company, saving you hours to focus on more impactful work.

Build your Framework

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Let Capabilities AI do the heavy lifting

Build your own capability framework.

Make the right content discoverable.

Instantly add new roles.

Made for you

Head of Workforce Strategy

See if the workforce can meet current and upcoming demands before gaps become a problem.

Talent Intelligence Lead

See what capabilities the organization has today, where they’re strongest, and where to focus development.

HR Business Partner

Give managers a consistent, capability-led way to run development plans and performance conversations.

Department Head

Align development across teams by using the same role expectations and development plans everywhere.

Organizational Development Consultant

Set clear role expectations and use them to shape consistent development plans across the organization.

Team Manager

Run productive 1:1s with clear role expectations and a shared development plan to update over time.

I love this PLMS! I believe it has everything we need to be able to offer competency-based training!

What do you like best about Acorn PLMS?
The Capabilities for sure! Being able to offer competency-based training and assessment is the way to go! Acorn PLMS is easy to use, and the implementation process offers you support and help in every step.

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