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This template analyzes performance feedback and development conversations to identify core skills gaps across your workforce.
Upload the data, and receive a dashboard showing the most urgent missing competencies by role or team.
If your teams are falling short, the problem might not be attitude — it might be capability.
This template helps you see where upskilling is needed most, with real language from your managers and employees.
Definition: Skills gaps are missing competencies, behaviors, or knowledge areas that limit performance or future readiness — extracted from qualitative feedback.
Benefit | Description | Impact |
---|---|---|
Prioritize Development | Focus L&D spend where the need is urgent | Maximize learning ROI |
Support Career Growth | Empower teams with clear growth paths | Increase internal mobility |
Enable Role Design | Map needs into future job descriptions | Build agile talent infrastructure |
Build Workforce Readiness | Prep teams for future business demands | Reduce resourcing risk |
HRBPs + People Ops — Enable proactive skill planning
L&D Teams — Design programs that close real gaps
Department Heads — Understand blockers to team performance
Workforce Planners — Align training to future talent strategy
“We now have a skills heatmap by department — grounded in real manager conversations. It’s changed how we allocate L&D budget.”
— Sean Withford, Founder & Director, Eloquent