We believe that everyone's capability can be improved and that improvements in capability results in employee motivation and improved team performance.
We've developed a management tool that helps you to accurately capture the skills that exist within your team, identify skills gaps and implement priority based training.
Common questions raised by People Managers in 2020 ...
What skill capabilities exists within my team?
What skills are required to be most efficient e.g. to meet customer expectation and quality output?
Which skills need to be developed and in what priority?
How is proficiency measured consistently and not subjective?
How do I make skills more visible to my entire team?
How do I set, communicate & track individual training requirements?
List all the people within your team down the left-hand side of the matrix.
List all skills capabilities along the top of your matrix.
Rate the proficiency of each individual for each skills capability using our proven method (below).
Automatically gauge proficiency level and set specific upskill targets.
Taking inspiration from the Toyota Production Systems (TPS) and years of interaction with thousands of companies, we believe the below to be a great place to start. Its crucially important that all team leaders and team managers work to the same scoring methodology in order to create true consistency. The weightings are used to create a total proficiency score at individual and process level, helping you to understand your teams true capability.
-In training, not yet complete.
-Can not complete task alone
-Low capability
-Unsure of task requirements
-Unsure of quality required
Score weighting 25%
-Training nearly complete
-Improved competence, however not yet proven quality/productivity
-Needs additional training
Score weighting 50%
-All training completed
-Proven competence, quality and productivity output
-Requires ongoing coaching
-Benefits from autonomy
Score weighting 75%
- All training completed
- Has prolonged length of capable experience
- Able and willing to train others
Score weighting 100%
In this video, Jennifer will introduce you to the concept skills matrix that you can download for free. With the advanced version you can record up to 20 employees, 40 skills capabilities, set and track upskill targets for your team.
“The ability6 platform enables organizations to map talent directly to the tasks and process with which it undertakes. The real-time analytics provide individuals, team leaders, department heads and senior management the insights they need in relation to the proficiency of their staff, proving a current view of skills gaps. Being able to accurately identify where all the skill resides in your company at any time is a powerful thing! Ability6 delivers this!”
"The Ability 6 Skills and Competency framework forms an integral part of the tool kit that Preferred Results utilizes in its approach to change implementation projects. We use this powerful software with its task/process level recording features, capability targets and visual matrices as a starting point to any organization restructuring or performance improvement assignment, to conduct the Current Situation Analysis, identify skills gaps across functions and processes, and develop sustainable solutions together with the Client.”
"It was absolutely amazing to find a partner that understood and met our needs; and has a positive attitude to learn more and enhance their solutions based on customer needs. Ability6 created an added feature to their software based on our needs and helped us create a value based partnership. The team is highly proactive, delivers on said time, and are always ready to answer our million questions. It continues to be our pleasure to work with them."
HR Business Partner, Technoform, USA
A skills matrix helps you to be an informed people manager. Enabling instant visibility of your teams collective skill set and critically where to focus your training needs in order to become a more proficient team. We can help you to facilitate genuine capability improvements that lead to improved team performance, so please download the matrix or get in touch,
