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In this episode of In-Ear Insights, the Trust Insights podcast, Katie and Chris discuss the importance of a skills matrix assessment in today’s rapidly evolving work environment. You’ll understand what a skills matrix assessment is and why it’s essential for navigating today’s rapidly changing work environment. You’ll discover how to pinpoint exactly where your team’s skills excel and where they need development, particularly with AI on the rise. You’ll learn to strategically plan for the future, ensuring your organization remains competitive and adaptable to new technologies. You’ll explore how to break down complex skill needs into manageable parts for clear evaluation and growth. Tune in to discover how a skills matrix can transform your approach to talent and future-proof your organization!
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Christopher S. Penn – 00:00
In this week’s In Ear Insights, let’s talk about the skills matrix. What it is, or more importantly, why you would care about such a thing and how, in general, we think about skills evaluation in a world where the skills are changing so darn fast. This week on the Trust Insights live stream, we’ll be talking about how to do a skills matrix assessment. But Katie, walk through the basics. What, when we’re talking about evaluating people’s skills, what is it that we’re actually doing?
Katie Robbert – 00:34
We are looking at both hard and soft skills. So hard skills being things that you could write out in a process and follow from A to Z. So math, for example, is a hard skill because it’s something that multiple people can learn from a textbook, from an instructor, that kind of a thing. Programming and development is a hard skill. Project management is a hard skill. Visual design, believe it or not, is a hard skill. Soft skills are more of the human component. So management in terms of communication and empathy and those kinds of things. So, when we talk about a skills matrix, what we’re doing is we are mapping what the company needs to what the people have. And so it helps you see where the gaps are and where you might be perhaps over indexed.
Katie Robbert – 01:41
Because we tend to think about it in terms of let’s find the gaps, but we forget, oh, perhaps we have 10 developers on a project that needs only two. So a skills matrix, you call it a matrix, call it a spreadsheet, call it a checklist, whatever you want to call it, really is, what do we have, what do we need, and where’s the overlap? The reason you would want to put a skills matrix together is to figure out, do you have the right people doing the right things today? You know,
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In this episode of In-Ear Insights, the Trust Insights podcast, Katie and Chris discuss the importance of a skills matrix assessment in today’s rapidly evolving work environment. You’ll understand what a skills matrix assessment is and why it’s essential for navigating today’s rapidly changing work environment. You’ll discover how to pinpoint exactly where your team’s skills excel and where they need development, particularly with AI on the rise. You’ll learn to strategically plan for the future, ensuring your organization remains competitive and adaptable to new technologies. You’ll explore how to break down complex skill needs into manageable parts for clear evaluation and growth. Tune in to discover how a skills matrix can transform your approach to talent and future-proof your organization!
Watch the video here:
Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here.
Listen to the audio here:
https://traffic.libsyn.com/inearinsights/tipodcast-what-is-a-skills-matrix-assessment.mp3
Download the MP3 audio here.
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Machine-Generated Transcript
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Christopher S. Penn – 00:00
In this week’s In Ear Insights, let’s talk about the skills matrix. What it is, or more importantly, why you would care about such a thing and how, in general, we think about skills evaluation in a world where the skills are changing so darn fast. This week on the Trust Insights live stream, we’ll be talking about how to do a skills matrix assessment. But Katie, walk through the basics. What, when we’re talking about evaluating people’s skills, what is it that we’re actually doing?
Katie Robbert – 00:34
We are looking at both hard and soft skills. So hard skills being things that you could write out in a process and follow from A to Z. So math, for example, is a hard skill because it’s something that multiple people can learn from a textbook, from an instructor, that kind of a thing. Programming and development is a hard skill. Project management is a hard skill. Visual design, believe it or not, is a hard skill. Soft skills are more of the human component. So management in terms of communication and empathy and those kinds of things. So, when we talk about a skills matrix, what we’re doing is we are mapping what the company needs to what the people have. And so it helps you see where the gaps are and where you might be perhaps over indexed.
Katie Robbert – 01:41
Because we tend to think about it in terms of let’s find the gaps, but we forget, oh, perhaps we have 10 developers on a project that needs only two. So a skills matrix, you call it a matrix, call it a spreadsheet, call it a checklist, whatever you want to call it, really is, what do we have, what do we need, and where’s the overlap? The reason you would want to put a skills matrix together is to figure out, do you have the right people doing the right things today? You know,
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