How to build an Employee Learning and Development Agent
This agent answers leadership and management questions using only company-approved documents, providing concise, cited responses to help managers lead more effectively.
Challenge
Managers often struggle to find actionable, company-approved advice for leading teams and developing leadership skills.
Industry
Industrials
Department
HR
Integrations
OpenAI
SharePoint
YouTube
Workflow Overview
1. User Input
Node: Chat Input
Purpose: The user starts by typing a question or challenge related to leadership, character, or management (e.g., “Struggling to lead certain members of my team. Any sources?”).
2. Knowledge Retrieval
Node: Great Managers Playbook (Knowledge Base)
Purpose: Searches a curated company playbook PDF for relevant advice, frameworks, and best practices for managers.
Node: Module 1 (Knowledge Base)
Purpose: Searches a second company document (“The Elements of Great Managing”) for additional research-backed management strategies.
Both knowledge base nodes receive the user’s question and return the most relevant excerpts from their respective documents.
3. AI Leadership Coach
Node: Leadership Coach LLM
Purpose:
Receives the user’s question and the relevant content from both knowledge bases.
Uses a specialized prompt to:
Only answer using company-approved documents.
Always cite the source (doc + section/page).
Refuse to answer if the info isn’t in the docs.
Keep answers concise and positive.
Suggest HR if confidence is low.
Embed a helpful YouTube video if the question is about leading people.
How it works:
The AI combines the user’s question and the retrieved knowledge, then generates a short, actionable, and well-cited response.
4. Output to User
Node: Output
Purpose:
Displays the AI’s answer (with citations and, if relevant, a video) directly to the user.
5. Conversation Logging (Optional/Advanced)
Node: Recording LLM
Purpose:
Takes both the user’s question and the AI’s response, formats them as a JSON object for record-keeping or analytics.
(In your setup, this node is ready to send the conversation to a Google Sheet, but the actual write action is not shown in the current flow.)
How the Data Flows
User types a question →
Question is sent to both knowledge bases →
Relevant excerpts are sent to the Leadership Coach LLM →
LLM generates a concise, cited answer →
Answer is shown to the user
(Optionally, the conversation is formatted for logging/analytics.)
Key Features
Citations: Every answer is backed by company documentation.
Guardrails: No personal, legal, or medical advice; only company-approved info.
Video Support: For people-management questions, a helpful video is embedded.
Logging Ready: The flow is set up to log Q&A pairs for future review or analytics.
In summary:
This workflow is a robust, company-compliant leadership coaching assistant. It ensures that all advice is sourced from your internal documents, is concise, and is ready for both user-facing support and internal analytics.






