Overview on Skill Matrix

Have you ever thought, how to measure skills across organizations between different people and different tasks? No? So here comes the role of Skill Matrix. Skill matrix is a visual management tool that helps you analyze the skills of people across the organizations with different tasks. In business terms it can be defined as a visual depiction of inventory of skills which an individual possesses in order to succeed in completion of a job.It clearly shows the skills of individual in a team and any gaps between the skills of employees and the job roles they have. It gives a real idea about the training needs of employees and recruitment of the job. This indeed helps in enhancing people capability so as to achieve a higher level of performance and people participation.It is also known as Competency matrix and Talent Matrix.

While implementing Skill Matrix following there are many challenges we could face such as, There is no common skill matrix system that exists in the whole market, so it depends from industry to industry. Skill measurements are at macro level, it may be really difficult to follow them on Micro level due to different roles and responsibilities.Measurement and certification at each level is essential, but may not exist. So the solution can be implementation of skill matrix uniformly.

Considering skill Matrix seems an advantage because it creates awareness and motivation among employees, skill and knowledge gap areas are identified and employees can be trained accordingly, skill evaluating procedure is interactive & transparent and we can redeploy the employees based on Requirements. There is a quadrant system of depicting skill matrix which says there are 4 levels in skill matrix quadrant based on which we can access where the employee stands . Beginner,Able ,Proficient & Specialist.

To follow the Skill Matrix, there are 10 basic steps to follow , which are listed below:

Following all the above steps any industry can setup Skill Matrix. A Sample Format of Skill Matrix shown below for reference.