Skills audits
A skills audit is used to:
- assess the level of expertise across a range of skills
- identify and focus on which skills need to be developed
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Skills audits vary in the way that the level of expertise is assessed, eg some skills audits use a A method of attributing a red, green or amber status to a characteristic or statement..
Others may use a number based rating system, eg
- strongly disagree
- disagree
- agree
- strongly agree
Skills audit process
All skills audits are intended to represent a process rather than a one-off occurrence.
Step one
Use a skills audit as a starting point for planning future skills development activity.
Step two
Understand current strengths and weaknesses to plan development in certain areas.
Step three
After activities to develop certain areas have been undertaken, A process of looking back on what has been done, and learning lessons about what did and did not work. should take place on how successfully this has been achieved.
Step four
Another skills audit may then be undertaken to measure progress and the process begins again.