Organizational success relies on the right people with the right skills. But how do you know who has what skills and who needs to learn more? ClickUp's Skills Mapping Template is here to help!
This template helps teams and organizations:
- Identify, track, and map employees' current skillsets
- Analyze employee strengths and weaknesses across roles
- Identify skill gaps and create targeted learning plans for individuals or teams
ClickUp's Skills Mapping Template is designed to provide visibility into your team's skill sets, so that you can make informed decisions about training, development, roles, projects, and more. Get started today for a well-rounded workforce!
Benefits of a Skills Mapping Template
Having a comprehensive skills map template that captures all of your employees' skills can be invaluable. Here are just some of the benefits of a skills mapping template:
- Provides an easy way to keep track of employee skills
- Facilitates the development of individualized training plans
- Helps identify potential succession and career paths
- Allows you to quickly identify resource gaps and develop strategies to fill them
Main Elements of a Skills Mapping Template
ClickUp's Skills Mapping Template is designed to help you organize and track the skills of your employees. This List template includes:
- Custom Statuses: Create tasks with custom statuses such as Open and Complete to keep track of the progress of each skill mapping
- Custom Fields: Use 12 different custom attributes such as Computer Skills Technical, Position Level, Problem solving Soft Skill, Technical writing Technical, and Selling Job Specific, to save vital information about employees' skills and easily visualize skill data
- Custom Views: Open 6 different views in different ClickUp configurations, such as the Technical Skills, Soft Skills, Job specific Skills, Getting Started Guide, Skills Assessment Form, and more so that all the information is easy to access and organized
- Project Management: Improve skill mapping tracking with time tracking capabilities, tags, dependency warning, emails, and more
How to Use a Skills Mapping Template
Skills mapping is a valuable tool to help you identify the skills your team needs to succeed. Follow these steps to create your own skills mapping template:
1. Identify key skills
Start by making a list of the skills your team needs to reach their goals. Make sure to include both technical and soft skills, as well as any other skills that are critical for success.
Create tasks in ClickUp to list out all the key skills for your team.
2. Assign a score to each skill
Once you’ve identified the skills, assign each one a score from 1-5, with 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest. This will give you a better idea of where your team’s strengths and weaknesses lie.
Use custom fields in ClickUp to assign a score to each skill.
3. Create the template
Create a spreadsheet or table that includes each of the skills from the list, along with their corresponding score.
Use the Table view in ClickUp to quickly and easily create your skills mapping template.
4. Add additional info
You can also add additional information into your template if you want, such as the employee’s name or job title.
Create custom fields in ClickUp to easily track extra info on your template.
5. Assign tasks
Once the template is complete, assign tasks to each team member to start working on improving their skills. Set deadlines, milestones, and goals for each task to ensure that everyone is on track.
Use tasks in ClickUp to assign tasks and set deadlines for each team member.
6. Track progress
Finally, set up a recurring task in ClickUp to review and update the skills mapping template periodically. This will allow you to track the progress of each team member and identify any areas that need more focus.
Set a recurring task in ClickUp to check in on the progress of your team’s skills mapping.
Get Started with ClickUp's Skills Mapping Template
HR professionals can use this Skills Mapping Template to help everyone stay on the same page when it comes to identifying and developing employee skills.
First, hit “Add Template” to sign up for ClickUp and add the template to your Workspace. Make sure you designate which Space or location in your Workspace you’d like this template applied.
Next, invite relevant members or guests to your Workspace to start collaborating.
Now you can take advantage of the full potential of this template to map out skills:
- Use the Technical Skills View to explore the technical skills needed for a particular role or job
- The Soft Skills View will help you identify the soft skills needed to succeed in a particular job or role
- The Job Specific Skills View will give you an overview of the skills needed for specific roles or jobs
- The Getting Started Guide View will help you create a plan for how to best acquire the skills needed
- The Skills Assessment Form View will provide you with a template to assess the skills needed for a particular role or job
- Organize tasks into two different statuses: Open, Complete, to keep track of progress
- Update statuses as you progress through tasks to keep stakeholders informed of progress
- Monitor and analyze tasks to ensure maximum productivity
Get Started with Our Skills Mapping Template Today
