The global skills and competency framework for the digital world

Learning and professional development

Level 1 - Follow

  • Applies newly acquired knowledge to develop new skills. Contributes to identifying own development opportunities. 

Level 2 - Assist

  • Recognises personal skills and knowledge gaps and seeks learning opportunities to address them. Absorbs and applies new information to tasks.

Level 3 - Apply

  • Applies newly acquired knowledge to develop new skills. Contributes to identifying own development opportunities. 

Level 4 - Enable

  • Rapidly absorbs and critically assesses new information and applies it effectively.
  • Maintains an awareness of emerging practices and their application and takes responsibility for driving own and team members’ development opportunities. 

Level 5 - Ensure, advise

  • Imparts their knowledge to help to define the standards which others will apply.
  • Takes the initiative to develop a wider breadth of knowledge across industry and/or business and identify and manage development opportunities in area of responsibility.

Level 6 - Initiate, influence

  • Promotes the application of knowledge to support strategic imperatives.
  • Takes the initiative to develop executive leadership capability and leads the development of skills required in their area of accountability.

Level 7 - Set strategy, inspire, mobilise

  • Ensures the organisation develops and mobilises the full range of required skills and capabilities.
  • Inspires a learning culture to align with business objectives.   
  • Maintains an understanding and awareness of contemporary and emerging industry landscapes.