Skills are the new currency of work. Knowing your skill signature is part of being a professional.

Over the past decade, HR in professional services has become increasingly complex. There is a need for new tools that give deeper insight into people’s real skills and how they are being applied on projects. The payback for HR leaders is a greater strategic role in the firm’s direction, a more engaged workforce and insight into where one needs to invest

Design thinking is a critical new skill set in many areas of business. How will you build skills in this field?

Top-down talent management solutions will not cut it in today's world. You need bottom-up skills management.

Can your firm answer critical questions about skills? This is mission-critical for professional services firms.

What new skills will professional services companies need to develop in 2017?

Your purpose will guide the skills you choose to develop and how you put them to work.

People need connecting skills & complementary skills to work effectively together. The pattern of skills gives insight into how they will work together.

Around 2010 data analytics was a differentiating skill but over the past few years, it has become a widely shared core skill.

Differentiating skills are often hard to identify. They depend on the alternatives and must always be client in.

Some of the most important innovation teams are goal-seeking. This requires excellent foundational skills.

Differentiating skills are always relative to the alternative and specific to the problem being solved.

There are many different ways to perform a role. The same set of skills can be applied to many different roles.

Leaders help build capabilities & connect them to markets to provide value to customers. Capabilities are bundles of skills, code, data, relationships.

Leading in uncertain times and driving innovation requires the skills to manage ambiguity.

Look for patterns in the types of skills and past outcomes to predict which teams will be successful. A guest post by Brian Conlin

Creativity thrives on being able to give and receive critiques. Giving meaningful critique is a valuable skill.

Many people follow a career path from project manager to product manager but new skills are needed to successfully make this transition.