Team skills

Your reports record their own skills and the level they would put themselves at. You can see them side by side, find who knows what, and validate their levels.

Who can see the team skills matrix and validate skills: Owner, HR admin, Manager.

Open the menu and select Work → Skills. As a manager you have three tabs: My skills, Team matrix and Find people.

The team matrix

The Team matrix shows your team as rows and skills as columns. Each cell shows the person’s level, and marks:

• Validated: a manager or HR has confirmed the level;
• Wants to develop it: the person wants to get better at it;
• Below the level their role requires;
• a dash when the skill is Not recorded.

The matrix shows the first few skills. Use Choose skills to compare to pick others, or filter by department or category. You can also show the Department column.

Find people with a skill

On Find people, choose a skill and, if you like, a minimum level, to see who in your team has it at that level or above. Tick Validated only to count only validated levels.

Validate a report’s skill

The level a person gives themselves is their own view. When you validate it, your level is the one the matrix and their role’s requirements use.

1. Select the person’s name in the matrix to open their skills.
2. Beside the skill, select Validate.
3. Choose the Validated level. You can agree with theirs, or set another. Cadre reminds you what they gave themselves.
4. Add a Note if you want to.
5. Select Validate.

You can validate the skills of your direct reports. For the people who report to them, you can only read, unless their own manager is away. You can’t validate your own skills.

If the person later changes the level of a validated skill, the validation is cleared and it needs validating again.

Related

• Your skills: what your reports see
• Competencies and skills