Restoring Human Connection at Work
April 22, 2025
(and what to do instead)
April 7th, 2024 – By Rebecca Taylor, CCO and Co-founder of SkillCycle
Your employees are already using ChatGPT for career advice. Your managers rely on fragmented systems like Lattice or Culture Amp that don’t connect performance to development. And your HR team? They’re stuck trying to prove ROI across disconnected tools.
Sound familiar?
The issue isn’t just technical. It’s a lack of depth and integration.
Traditional talent platforms and generic AI offer flat, decontextualized development that ignores the many ways humans actually grow at work. The result is wasted time, tools that don’t talk to each other, and no measurable progress.
Here’s where the most common strategies come up short:
BetterUp: Coaching Without Context
BetterUp scaled coaching successfully but it’s disconnected from actual performance data or role requirements. Coaches operate without visibility into organizational goals, which limits the relevance and application of their advice.
Lattice: Performance Without Progression
Lattice tracks performance well, but it doesn’t link insights to actionable development. Managers identify issues but don’t have the tools to support real growth.
Culture Amp: Engagement Without Direction
Culture Amp highlights employee sentiment but stops there. Without structured development plans, it’s hard to take action on what the data reveals.
Generic AI: Advice Without Alignment
Tools like ChatGPT provide general advice that may sound personalized, but they’re missing critical context.
These tools often suggest the wrong next step and can even steer people off course.
SkillCycle takes a different approach.
Development with Dimension is important because real growth happens across multiple, interconnected areas of development, not in isolated systems or generic chatbots.
Dimension |
Traditional Platforms |
Generic AI |
SkillCycle |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Career Development |
Basic course access |
One-size-fits-all tips |
Personalized learning triggered by performance insights. |
|
Skill Development |
Static ladders |
Vague advice |
Career paths aligned with personal and organizational goals, values, and capabilities. |
|
Personal Growth |
One-off sessoins |
No emotional intelligence |
Core skills development that produces communication, collaboration, and innovation. |
|
Leadership Development |
Standard programming misaligned with the modern workforce |
Generic prompts |
AI-enabled real-time tips and guidance combined with on-demand coaching |
|
Performance Enablement |
Disconneted feedback |
No follow-up |
Contextualized next steps that transorm feedback into growth |
|
Organizational Alignment |
Administrative OKRs |
Zero context |
Strategu-aware development journeys |
|
Continuous Learning |
Limited agile options |
Irrelevant suggestions |
Learning through real-time, relevant guidance and coaching |
This combination delivers three things that no one else does:
We unify performance and development into a seamless experience that helps your people and your business grow together.
Organizations that use SkillCycle report:
Ready to Move Beyond Flat?
Stop managing performance and start enabling it.
Stop offering development and start delivering it.
Build your strategy with dimension.
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