JobFrame · Ladder · SSLD.GEN.M5
Skills Strategy / L&D · General
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Pay by level
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Mastery at this level
M5 — Proficient · good — adapts to context, gets consistent results
Owning an operating plan and partnering across teams
- Architects a year-long L&D operating plan across multiple teams, sequencing formal courses, practice, and coaching
- Uses evaluation data and experiments—not vendor hype—to justify and defend trade-offs to function heads
- Co-invents options for mutual gain with team leads when learning priorities and budgets compete
- Drives sustained behavior change in cohorts, holding managers accountable for on-the-job application
What’s next — Expertat M5 → M6
Elevates from operating a coherent plan to treating human capital as a strategic asset—differentiating investment and aligning learning with the whole HR and business system
What to learn
- How L&D reinforces or contradicts hiring, performance, and rewards signals
- Which roles are pivotal and where capability gaps threaten strategy
- Organizational-learning and change-agility mechanisms that outlast programs
What to practice
- Making the senior call to concentrate spend on the critical few
- Framing learning against business problems to earn a seat at the table
- Building knowledge-transfer routines and communities of practice at org scale
From Learning & Development Specialist — the closest guide to this family (semantic match; stage bands from the canonical level binding).
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