How does your organization approach skill assessment?
Steven Forth is co-founder and managing partner at Ibbaka. See his skill profile here.
Skills are moving to the center of the conversation on work.
By understanding each others skills we can help each other perform. I want to understand my own skills so I know where I need to improve and what different roles or teams may be open to me. I want to understand my colleagues skills so that I can work with them more effectively and contribute to their own learning.
Organizations are also concerned with the skills of their people. Skills are a key differentiator. They help leaders understand where they may have a competitive advantage and then to sharpen that advantage. Skills are critical to strategy execution. A company that is executing on a category creation strategy, for example, is going to need to build its own skills in the new category while helping its customers develop the skills they need to get value.
Please share your insights into skill assessments in this short survey
Combined with skill and competency models, understanding people’s skills helps organizations to understand and fill skill gaps, make targeted investments in skill development, and help people navigate career paths.
Understanding skills is central to building resilient and adaptive organizations.
Skills are not binary. We have different levels of expertise and may demonstrate different levels in different contexts. On some projects I may demonstrate a skill at a very high level while on another, seemingly similar project, I may falter. My performance can also depend on who I am working with. We all know those teammates that help us take our work to a higher level. And unfortunately, there are those who drag us down. Understanding these patterns is one of the keys to superior performance.
All of these use cases depend on some form of skill assessment.
In this survey, we are exploring different approaches to skill assessment. We will use insights from this survey to guide development of the Ibbaka Talent Platform and the delivery of skill management programs. We will of course share the results in a report and through blog posts. You can sign up to receive the report by taking the survey.
Some of the questions we explore are
How do people assess their own skills?
How do they assess other people’s skills?
What actions do skill assessments inform?
What role do skill assessments play in performance reviews?
What are the privacy rules for sharing skill assessment?
Here is some of our other work on skill assessments
Assessing Skills as Part of Continuous Performance Management
