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What Is Skills Gap Visibility? (and How to Score Yours)
Ask any CHRO whether their organization has skill gaps. The answer is always yes. Now ask a harder question: which teams have the biggest gaps, and what's the dollar cost of leaving them open? That second question usually gets silence — or a request for two weeks and a spreadsheet project. The gap itself isn't the problem. The blindness is. Most organizations treat skill gaps as a training issue. Buy more courses. Roll out another LMS module. Send people to conferences. But you can't fix what
Feb 4 · 8 min
How to Measure Your Organization's Skills Gap (and Why Most Companies Can't)
Ask a VP of L&D which teams have the biggest skills gaps in their organization. Most can't answer with data. They'll point to anecdotal feedback, engagement survey results, or the fact that a particular team keeps missing deadlines. Some will reference training completion rates — which measure effort, not capability. This is the core problem with skills gap measurement: most organizations have built extensive systems for tracking what training people have completed and almost no systems for mea
Dec 12 · 5 min
How to Upskill Your Workforce: Best Practices for the Future of Work
Upskilling and reskilling are critical in 2025. Learn the history, benefits, and best practices for workforce upskilling — from remote teams to frontline workers.
Sep 17 · 4 min
Who Knows What? How to Find (and Prove) Expertise Inside Your Company
Finding experts fast is critical for workforce planning, client success, and compliance. Learn how an internal expert finder—using skill flags, a skills matrix, and competency mapping—helps you prove employee competence with audit-ready evidence.
Sep 11 · 5 min
5 Steps for Implementing a Skills Tracking System
The benefits of a skills tracking system are considerable. The enterprise receives an in depth picture of where skills fulfill specific requirements.
Feb 26 · 3 min
Skills Gaps Ahead! - The Surprising Workforce Crisis of 2030
Rainer Strack explains that workforce skill gaps are certainly coming in the near future because of a quickly retiring workforce.
Dec 9 · 2 min
Skills Audit: Analyzing Your Audit
In the third installment of this series I will go into the reporting analytics and output you should strive to achieve during a skills audit.
Jul 26 · 4 min
Skills Audit: The Necessity of a Skills Audit
The first installment in this series explores persuading leaders, managers, and employees that a skills audit is necessary.
Jun 26 · 5 min