Critical and Core Skills
Critical talent refers to those employees with the key skills that empower the team to achieve its goals in a professional and timely manner.
Identification of these key critical and core skills needed by the organization is an ongoing process. Skills become outdated and new ones arise as technologies constantly get upgraded and new ones emerge.
Assess Skills Gaps
To accurately assess the skills gap, decision-makers also need a handle on future trends, and leadership preparation foresight into critical new skills that will be needed by the organization in the longer term.
In order to achieve this, the organization needs an accurate, reliable and consistent method to manage the skills gap to ensure the critical skills are onboard for success in the long term. This must be done on a continuous basis, especially as changes are constantly occurring.
How to Identify Skills Gaps
The starting point is to conduct the skills inventory and determine the core critical skills needed at a given point in time.
WorkforceAI was developed for this exact purpose. It offers a repeatable process for identifying the critical and core skills needed as more knowledge about new technologies, skills and job roles come to light.