Skills Matrix
Skill
Type
Encouraging others to communicate
Performing in public, making presentations
Actively listening, assessing needs
Conveying warmth and empathy
Gaining commitment from work colleagues
Building teams
Motivating or inspiring people
Assessing situations or people quickly & accurately
Leading a team or organization
Fund raising
Prospecting for new business
Selling the benefits of a product or service
Coaching, counselling or mentoring
Facilitating the learning of others
Breaking down barriers between people
Building and maintaining customer relationships
Persuading others to accept change
Driving change
Using humour to communicate or build relationships
Having insight, using intuition
Being aware of others’ feelings
Entertaining, amusing
Networking
Being aware of organisational politics
Delegating effectively
Communication a vision
Reaching a fair settlement to a negotiation
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
Persuading through effective or creative writing
Setting standards
Sizing up a person/ situation quickly and accurately
Generating new ideas, challenging assumptions
Developing and building on the ideas of others
Shaping things or materials
C
C
C
C
C
C
Very
Competent
Competent
Adequate
Undeveloped
Enjoy
using
Want to
use a lot
Skill
Type
Inventing new solutions to problems
Using colour or design creatively
“Seeing the wood from the trees”
Being fluent in a foreign language
Designing a website
Readily absorbing ideas and concepts
Initiating projects
Creating, innovating, seeing alternatives
Improvising under pressure
Appreciating layout or design
Embracing a challenge
Adapting, improving
Designing events, presentations, training courses
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
Seeing patterns or trends in data
Simplifying complex ideas
Planning and anticipating
Reviewing, evaluating
Documenting, recording
Absorbing facts quickly
Mastering computer applications
Interpreting numbers or accounts at a glance
Setting and achieving goals
Managing budgets
Understanding and improving systems
Managing knowledge or information
Examining, observing, monitoring
Organising and retrieving data efficiently
Project management
Researching a topic thoroughly
Following instructions, diagrams, blueprints
Exploiting the advantages of technology
Analysing, sorting, cataloguing, archiving
Juggling several tasks at the same time
Saving time or money, cutting waste
Problem solving/ troubleshooting
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
Very
Competent
Competent
Adequate
Undeveloped
Enjoy
using
Skill
Type
Improving the performance of a machine or process
Repairing machines
Healing or encouraging well-being
Driving long distances
Taking things apart to understand how they work
Displaying manual dexterity
Seeking efficiency in design or layout
Designing machines, components or systems
Displaying good hand-eye co-ordination
Investigating a technical problem
Constructing, building, shaping
Improving quality or reliability
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
Type: P = people
C = creative
I = Information
T = Things
Very
Competent
Competent
Adequate
Undeveloped
Enjoy
using