Team Skill Matrix & Competency Gap Assessment

Thanks for taking a few minutes to reflect on your current skills! This helps your team plan training and development more effectively. Your responses are completely confidential and anonymized. Your honest self-assessment matters more than a 'good' score. About 6-8 minutes.

For each skill area below, select the level that best matches your current ability.

How confident are you that your current skill set meets the demands of your role today?

Looking at the skill areas below, which is most urgent to develop and which is least urgent right now?

• Core technical/tool proficiency (replace with your team's tools)
• Problem-solving & critical thinking
• Communication & collaboration
• Project & time management
• Industry or domain knowledge
• Leadership & mentoring
• Data analysis & reporting (Template note: adjust to your context)

In the last 6 months, which ways of learning new skills have actually worked for you? Select all that apply.

• Self-paced online courses
• Live workshops or training sessions
• One-on-one mentoring or coaching
• On-the-job stretch projects
• Peer learning or knowledge-sharing sessions
• Formal certification programs

What's the one skill gap that most often slows you down or keeps you from taking on bigger work? Give a specific recent example if you can.

How would you rate the training and development support your organization currently provides?

Focus on the skill gap the respondent named as most urgent (from the prioritization exercise and their written answer). Get them to walk through a specific recent instance where that gap actually blocked them or cost them time, what they tried instead, and what 'being good at this' would concretely look like in their day-to-day work. If they gave a vague or generic answer, ask for a specific week or project where it showed up.

How long have you been in your current role?

• Less than 6 months
• 6 months to 1 year
• 1-3 years
• 3-5 years
• 5+ years
• Prefer not to say

Which best describes your current level?

• Individual contributor
• Team lead or supervisor
• Manager
• Senior leader or executive
• Prefer not to say

Which team or department are you part of? (Template note: replace with your actual team/department list)

• (Replace with Team/Department A)
• (Replace with Team/Department B)
• (Replace with Team/Department C)
• Other
• Prefer not to say

That's everything — thank you! Your responses feed into a team-wide skill matrix that will guide training plans and development priorities, not individual performance reviews.