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Good afternoon, Community members! It's Friday once again, and today I'm here to share another business article with you all. Earlier I was reading this article from uschamber.com and thought it was a very beneficial one to share. This post in particular covers identifying and resolving skills gaps within your business.
Identification
As the write-up mentions, "No single person possesses all the necessary skills to run a business effectively. Identifying skills gaps, in both yourself and your team, will ensure your company can grow." With that being said, a skill gap is "the difference between the skills required for a position and the skills an employee actually possesses." These differences can be identified by conducting an analysis with your employees. Notice I said with because you will participating as well. Here are the steps to recognize any gaps that need to be filled:
As the write-up mentions, "No single person possesses all the necessary skills to run a business effectively. Identifying skills gaps, in both yourself and your team, will ensure your company can grow." With that being said, a skill gap is "the difference between the skills required for a position and the skills an employee actually possesses." These differences can be identified by conducting an analysis with your employees. Notice I said with because you will participating as well. Here are the steps to recognize any gaps that need to be filled:
- Important skills
Communicating the skills that are actually important is a great place to start. Once this list is in place, you and your employees will have goals to strive for.
- Measure current skills
Setting up ways to calculate current skill levels and metrics compared to the important skills is the best way to see how large of a gap you're looking at. The post mentions, "...using surveys or assessments, employee interviews, information from performance reviews or even skills management software to help you gather the necessary information."
- Train or hire for skills gaps
After identifying differences between current and desired skills, it's time to take action. Resolving skill gaps within your business needs to be done either by re-training existing employees or hiring some news ones to close the space. Re-training can be completed with, "workshops on new software, a seminar on a rising issue in your field or even on-the-job training for recent hires." Alternatively, when it's time to hire new employees, evaluating your current hiring process before-hand will allow you to identify what's missing and potentially bolstering these variations.
I hope these points have sparked some inspiration to help you close any gaps you may be seeing within your company. If you've recently overcome a matter of experience or expertise contrasts, what would add to the list to advise others who may currently be in that boat? Can't wait to hear your thoughts!
I hope these points have sparked some inspiration to help you close any gaps you may be seeing within your company. If you've recently overcome a matter of experience or expertise contrasts, what would add to the list to advise others who may currently be in that boat? Can't wait to hear your thoughts!
