Skills Matrix
Easily generate a powerful Skills Matrix to track employee competence and close skills gaps. Create dynamic Training Matrices to manage skills development across your organisation.
Ditch Fragmented Spreadsheets for Smarter Skills Management
Say goodbye to fragmented spreadsheets - gain real-time visibility into your workforce’s capabilties, areas for improvement, and upskilling priorities.
Tracking employee capabilities shouldn’t be a struggle. Forget complex spreadsheets – SkillStation gives you instant, automated workforce development insights, training progress, and future talent gaps. With our intelligent Skills Matrix software, SkillStation, you’ll gain a clear, real-time view of employee proficiency and role readiness. This helps you develop talent, close skills gaps, and drive evidence-based workforce decisions with confidence.
No surprises. No uncertainty. Just data-driven clarity.
Visual Clarity
Instantly identify skills gaps and training needs.
Smart Automation
Reduce admin time with intuitive tracking.
Scalable & Flexible
Works for teams of any size, across industries.
SkillStation, powering a smarter strategy for managing workforce skills
SkillStation is an advanced skills and competency management system designed to help organisations take control of employee growth and capability building. Whether you're managing compliance, spotting skills gaps or preparing for future growth, SkillStation gives you the data and tools to build a more capable, agile, and resilient team.
Unlock the Potential of Your Employees
Most skills tracking tools stop at monitoring competencies. But tracking alone isn’t enough. Go beyond the basics to empower organisations to see, develop, and future-proof workforce capability with greater accuracy.
Instant Visibility of Skills & Capability
Know your workforce at a glance - who’s excelling, who needs development, and where the gaps are. Quickly identify top performers, future leaders, and critical skill shortages to make informed decisions.
Smarter, Targeted Training
Align training with real business needs, not assumptions. The training matrix gives employees a clear path to progression and career growth - boosting engagement and retention.
Compliance, Without the Headaches
Track and manage certifications, qualifications, and regulatory requirements with ease. Generate audit-ready compliance reports in seconds - no more last-minute scrambling.
Automate Processes & Save Time
Ditch the spreadsheets - track skills, assign training, and generate reports effortlessly, all with real-time workforce insights. Free up HR and management to focus on strategy, not admin tasks.
Unlock the Full Potential of Your Workforce
Effortless & Insightful Skills Matrices
Understanding workforce skills shouldn’t be a challenge. Whether you're tracking competencies, planning training, or identifying top talent, a skills matrix gives you instant clarity and control. Stop wrestling with spreadsheets or relying on guesswork. SkillStation helps you visualise workforce capabilities in real time - making sure the right people have the right skills exactly when and where they’re needed. With powerful, customisable matrices, you can:
Align training with real business needs to develop talent effectively.
Make smart, data-led choices around recruitment, workforce planning, and operational efficiency.
See skills gaps at a glance and act on them quickly.
Skills Matrix Features
Real-Time Workforce Insights
Instantly spot strengths, competencies, and skill gaps across teams and locations to support smarter workforce decisions.
Scalable & Customisable Skills Matrix
Tailored to any industry, role, or business size for flexible skills management.
Effortless, User-Friendly Design
HR teams, line managers, and employees can easily track, manage, and develop workforce skills.
Advanced Talent Management
Track proficiency levels for any combination of people, skills, job roles, or functions.
Instant, Audit-Ready Reporting
Quickly access historical training records, assessment results, certifications, and compliance data.
What is a Skills Matrix - FAQ's
Still have questions about what a skills matrix is, how it works, or why it matters? You’re not alone. To help you better understand the value and application of skills matrices in workforce development, we’ve compiled answers to some of the most common questions and terms below.
A Skills Matrix provides real-time visibility into workforce capabilities, ensuring the right people have the right skills for the job. Whether managing teams, training, or projects, it helps streamline decision-making and optimise performance management.
Clear Workforce Insights
Instantly assess skills, competencies, and gaps to improve team capability.
Smarter Training & Development
Align training with business needs, career progression, and leadership development.
Better Project Staffing
Assign tasks based on real proficiency levels, not assumptions, ensuring effective project management.
Compliance & Risk Management
Track certifications and ensure audit readiness while maintaining workforce training and development standards.
Succession Planning
Identify top talent and future leaders with ease by mapping employee skills and competencies.
From workforce planning to project execution, a Skills Matrix keeps your business agile and future-ready by ensuring your team is equipped with the right training and additional skills.
A Skills Matrix is used to track, manage, and develop workforce competencies, ensuring employees have the right skills for their roles. It’s a powerful tool for HR, line-managers, and project leaders to make informed decisions that drive performance management.
Project Staffing
Assign the best-fit employees to key projects by matching skills and proficiency levels to project requirements, optimising project management efficiency.
Training Needs Analysis and skills intelligence
Identify who needs upskilling, track progress, and ensure training aligns with business goals to enhance team capability.
Compliance & Certifications
Monitor mandatory qualifications, ensuring teams stay compliant with industry regulations, training and development standards.
Find Leaders with powered skills intelligence
Quickly identify future leaders and subject matter experts, fill skill gaps, and ensure smooth role transitions through structured workforce planning.
Workforce Planning
Visualise team capabilities to improve hiring, reduce skills shortages, and future-proof your workforce using real-time dynamic skills matrices.
Whether managing teams, training programs, or projects, a Skills Matrix helps businesses make smarter, data-driven decisions every day, ensuring continuous development and performance optimisation.
Create a fully customisable employee skills matrix by selecting any combination of individuals, teams, or departments alongside a tailored list of skills or specific skill sets. Instantly display current skill levels and visualise each person’s level of competence against defined organisational benchmarks. This allows you to quickly spot gaps, areas for improvement, and opportunities for growth. Where non-compliance or skills gaps exist, access detailed evidence of completed training, assessments, and corrective actions. SkillStation’s intuitive tools help you manage and improve workforce capability through targeted training and development - ensuring a consistent and strategic approach to skills planning.
Streamline training needs analysis workflow to just seconds - identify who has been trained, who needs assessment, and where skills gaps remain. Easily update skills data, records, close gaps, and attach supporting evidence and documentation for compliance and workforce capability / skills mapping. The intuitive data visualisation of SkillStation ensures that any gaps in skills and capability are easily spotted.
Identify top talent for key roles by selecting a job title and instantly comparing employee proficiency levels. Generate a competency matrix across your organisation, department, or team to align skills with workplace needs and project management objectives. This capability matrix helps identify employees with the specific skills required for roles, projects or strategic initiatives.
Find future leaders faster - select a person or key skillset and instantly identify the top 10 potential successors based on your criteria. Ensure seamless transitions with data-backed planning that map employee skills and identifies leadership potential while also tracking career development and future areas of strength and progression.
A Skills Matrix is a powerful tool, but how do you use it effectively? From real-world examples to expert implementation tips, our in-depth guide will show you how to build a Skills Matrix that drives, productivity, compliance, training and development, performance management and career growth.
Looking for an easy way to get started with a skills matrix? We can provide a Skills Matrix Template on request that provides a structured, ready-to-use format that helps you quickly map employee skills, track competencies, and identify skills gaps. This template is ideal for HR teams, project managers, and training coordinators looking to streamline performance management and workforce planning. Reach out to us for more information.
While the Excel template is a useful starting point, it has limitations when compared to a dedicated skills management system like SkillStation. Spreadsheets require manual updates, lack automation, and don't provide real-time insights. With SkillStation, you can automate skills tracking, conduct detailed skills gap analysis, and gain deeper analytics to support employee development and build an effective skills matrix that integrates seamlessly with workforce planning.
A Skills Management System You Can Trust
Join the growing number of businesses that have transformed their skills management processes with SkillStation — empowering teams, improving performance, and unlocking growth through smarter workforce development.
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SkillStation allows us to easily view an individual's competency record, and has enabled us to construct clear training plans helping us to identify areas of improvement across our workforce.
SkillStation is an indispensable tool for managing the skills of our engineers. The expertise and technical support provided by Think Eleven has been second to none.
The visual interface for users is easy to navigate. The support from Think Eleven has been superb. The implementation and guidance has been invaluable.
