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