Skills audit
A skills audit is what many businesses use to analyse their employees. They do this by asking them to carry out a questionnaire that basically once calculated will indicate the employee’s strengths and points that they can work on in order to improve.
I have developed my own personal skills audit and have put it together in a table below.
From looking at my personal skills audit it can be seen that I have a good range of skills but I still have areas that I need working on and areas that I can’t currently reach. I will develop my skills by constructing a personal development plan that is able to complete on the businesslink website.
I have completed my personal development questions and the results are as follows
Areas that need development
Skills that need some development:
- Information Management
- Thinking Strategically
- Prioritising
- Valuing and Supporting Others
- Involving Others ...
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From looking at my personal skills audit it can be seen that I have a good range of skills but I still have areas that I need working on and areas that I can’t currently reach. I will develop my skills by constructing a personal development plan that is able to complete on the businesslink website.
I have completed my personal development questions and the results are as follows
Areas that need development
Skills that need some development:
- Information Management
- Thinking Strategically
- Prioritising
- Valuing and Supporting Others
- Involving Others
- Motivating
- Risk Management
- Delegating
- Reporting
You have lower scores for the skills needed in each of the following areas. This doesn't mean that you cannot do these tasks or haven't done them well in the past. It simply means that in order to be truly successful in these areas, you may need to brush up on some skills and get some advice on how to go about the following actions.
Encourage innovation in my business
Excellent performance in this area results in being able to:
ensure that there is a well-communicated innovation strategy that fits with the overall vision of the business
motivate people across the business to identify ideas for new products or services
ensure that resources, particularly time, are made available for idea generation, development and testing of ideas
evaluate business cases and plans, approve those that appear viable and monitor their progress
ensure that the originators and developers of any ideas receive recognition for their achievement
In order to improve in this area, you may want to get some advice on:
how to develop a business strategy for innovation and communicate it across the business
methods for identifying and pursuing opportunities to work in partnership with external experts
how to recognise and manage risk and encourage others to take acceptable risks
how to provide constructive feedback on ideas to teams and individuals
how to evaluate business cases and development plans and approve those that appear viable
how to establish systems for measuring and reporting to relevant parties
Observe legal, ethical and social requirements
Excellent performance in this area results in being able to:
monitor the relevant legal, ethical and social requirements and the effect they have on your area
develop and communicate effective policies and procedures to make sure your business meets all the necessary requirements
monitor the way policies and procedures are put into practice and provide support
encourage people to be open about meeting and not meeting the requirements
identify reasons for not meeting requirements and adjust policies and procedures to reduce failures in the future
In order to improve in this area, you may want to get some advice on:
the importance of having an ethical and value-based approach and how to put this into practice
relevant legal requirements governing the running of businesses
current and emerging social attitudes to management and leadership practice and the importance of being sensitive to these
Develop the culture of my business
Excellent performance in this area results in being able to:
agree values and assumptions that encourage behaviour that is consistent with your business' overall vision and strategy
make sure your personal behaviour, actions and words consistently reinforce these values and assumptions
communicate agreed values to people across your business and motivate them to put these into practice
put in place policies, programmes and systems to support agreed values
continuously monitor and adjust values and assumptions and the ways they are applied
In order to improve in this area, you may want to get some advice on:
different definitions and types of business culture
the importance of values in underpinning individual and business performance
internal and external factors that influence business culture
the relationship between business culture, strategy and performance
the principles and methods of managing culture change within businesses
