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Skills Audit

Knowing the skills of your organization.

Skills Audit - the key.

A key piece of information an organization needs to know is what skills and knowledge the organization has. This information is essential for a number of reasons:

Know your people

It determines whether the organization can
meet its goals.

Without this information the organization
doesn’t know where to improve.

Training and development will be better
targeted.

Recruiting needs are better defined and
more likely to result in the most appropriate
candidate.

Skills audit is a process that can be used to identify the skill gaps in an organization. The outcome is a training needs analysis that identifies where training is needed.

So a skills audit results in:

An understanding of the skills required and the gaps the organization currently has.
A targeted analysis of development needs.
A listing of people who need development.
Data that can be used for purposes such as internal selection.
Information that can be used for dynamic succession planning.

Skills Audit

Knowing the skills of your organization.

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