Grow Your Skills is a platform for employees to discover & contribute to gig projects or volunteer activities based on their interest which will help them to acquire new skills or master the one that they already have right inside teams. Also, this gives an opportunity for employees to collaborate and network with like-minded people.

Employers:  

• Drive employee engagement and provide an opportunity to network with like-minded people
• Bring opportunities to support and accelerate employee's career development  

Employees:  

• Contribute in Gig projects to acquire new skills and network with other co-workers
• Opportunity to realize the potential and create more impact
• Allow actions aligned with the career development aspirations

The app workflow is described below:

1. Discover and join new side projects that have been created by your peers in the organization

2. Search for projects of your choice or preference based on filters such as skill etc.

3. Create projects to request help with specific skills and give opportunity for your co-workers to grow

4. View the skills acquired across multiple projects at one place

5. Endorse team members for skills and send a personal note during project closure

6. Configure the tab in a Channel filtered based on tags to look for any projects that are based on the topics or skills relevant to your team

7. Collaborate using the Messaging extension, share the projects you have created or joined to garner more interest from your peers

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• You are responsible for complying with all applicable privacy and security regulations related to use, collection and handling of any personal data by your app. This includes complying with all internal privacy and security policies of your organization if your app is developed to be sideloaded internally within your organization.

• Where applicable, you may be responsible for data related incidents or data subject requests for data collect through your app.

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• Use of this template does not guarantee acceptance of your app to the Teams app store. To make this app available in the Teams app store, you will have to comply with the submission and validation process, and all associated requirements such as including your own privacy statement and terms of use for your app.

Begin with the Solution overview to read about what the app does and how it works.

When you're ready to try out Grow Your Skills app, or to use it in your own organization, follow the steps in the Deployment guide.

The app is currently not supported on iOS devices. We are actively working on fixing the issue and will update the repo as soon as it is available

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