Bridge Talent Suite: A Manager’s Guide

Bridge Talent Suite provides managers with all of the tools to support employee development, help them advance in their careers, and track training progress.

Read on or explore the interactive walkthrough for an overview of these features.

Bridge Talent Suite Navigation 

The main navigation is located on the left-hand side of every page for quick access to your essential tools. Within the navigation, you'll find links to:

  1. Me: Access your essential learning and development resources and your profile.
  2. Team: View team-wide skills insights.
  3. Company: Search people and skills communities.
  4. Analytics: Explore learning and skills reporting and data.
  5. Author: Search your organization’s learning content and create new content.
  6. Admin: Manage your team and organize content categories and tags.

Learning

When you first log into Bridge, you’ll be directed to your learning and development resources.

You’ll also find this page by navigating to Me > Learning from the primary navigation.

Learning is split into the following tabs:

My Learning

This is where you can access your mandatory learning items, view completed learning, and explore your recommended content.

Learning Library

Explore and enroll in optional resources from your organization’s catalog. This content is organized into categories so it’s easy for you to find training relevant to your skills development.

Training Calendar

Find and enroll in live, instructor-led training sessions using the calendar.

My Approvals

Review any pending checkpoints from your direct reports that require your approval.

Checkpoints are milestones or assessments in Bridge courses or learning pathways. You use them to assess learners’ progress and ensure comprehension before they can proceed to the next activity or section.

My Profile

Go to Me > My Profile to edit or enhance your Bridge profile.

Your profile is the first step toward a personalized learning and upskilling experience in Bridge, where you can add your existing skills, the ones you want to develop, and those you can help others with if you’re willing to be a mentor.

Once you’ve added skills to your profile, you can:

  • Find relevant training in your Learning page.
  • Explore future roles and required skills in the Skills Community.
  • Choose three skills to improve using your Development Plan.
  • Request Skills Feedback from coworkers.
  • Complete a Career Vision.

Tip: Want to know more? Read ‘How Do I Manage My Bridge Profile?

My Team

Navigate to Team from the primary navigation menu for a view of your team’s skills. The Skills page is organized into two tabs:

Skills Feedback

In the Skills Feedback tab, you can request skills assessments for your team members to see how they’re progressing in specific areas. 

Click the “Assess Skills” button to get started, then select a direct report from the dropdown menu.

Skills Coverage

The Skills Coverage tab shows the required skills each of your team members needs to perform their roles, based on their job titles. You'll also see their current capabilities. 

With this information, you can check that your team is covered in key areas needed to be successful, and direct training to address any skills gaps.

Team Profiles

From the Team menu, you’ll also see a list of your direct reports. Click a name from the list to view their profile page, and see the following details:

  • A basic description
  • Contact details
  • Skills
  • Development plans
  • Feedback
  • Learning

Company

Use the Company menu to search for people and skills to help you and your team members build skills. 

Org Chart

View your company’s org chart for a high-level overview of structure and job roles. Each member of your organization has a job role in Bridge. You can click the envelope icon to message someone, and the “Visit Profile” link to see any details they’ve added to Bridge.

Analytics

In the Analytics menu, you can explore learning and development reports and data visualizations among your direct reports.

Overview

The Overview page gives you quick insight into team-wide learning progress with easy-to-read charts, reports, and visualizations. 

Click any of these widgets for more information, and use the more options menu (three dots) to access more settings.

Transcript

Click Transcript for a detailed view of each learner’s progress, organized into a table, for a line-by-line rundown.

Live Training

View live training metrics.

Journeys

See progress for learning journeys.

Skills

Your skills dashboard gives you access to critical information, including workforce skills gaps and where they occur, profile completeness, and skills and job title data.

Author

Navigate to the Author submenu to view all of your organization's training, and click + New Course to add a new learning item.

You can also help your learners find this content by aligning it with their skills development goals. When your learners select skills they want to develop in their Bridge profiles, they’ll automatically get relevant content recommendations.

To ensure your learners see the content, select a course to view more settings, then navigate to the Associated Skills tab. Then click Add Skills and use the search bar. Bridge can also scan course titles and descriptions and auto tag content with relevant skills.

Tip: To learn more about authoring courses in Bridge, read ‘Bridge Learn: A Manager’s Guide.’

Admin

Head over to the Admin section to manage and oversee your team and their learning items.

Manage Users

Manage all of your direct reports, view more details, and export learning data.

Manage Groups

By default, you’ll see a group called My Learners that contains your team. You can create additional groups with your direct reports by clicking + New Group.

Export All Users

Generate a CSV file containing basic information about your learners.

Manage Tags

Access a list of existing tags and the learning items each tag is assigned to.

Manage Categories

View a list of existing categories and see the associated content and groups for each one.

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