1. Creating a Skills and Training Matrix
July 2016

2. Why create a Skills and Training Matrix?
A skills and training matrix should be completed by a change project to highlight any individual or group training needs to ensure the effective implementation of the change.

3. What you need before you start
A stakeholder matrix

4. How to create a Skills and Training Matrix
Use the stakeholder matrix and additional brainstorming to identify all the groups and individuals that require training
Brainstorm and cluster the competencies and skills required to implement the change

5. Skills and Training Matrix

6. How to create a Skills and Training Matrix
List the skills in the column on the right and the individual or group along the row at the top (see Slide 5 and Template available)
For each skill identify the current level of training received from ‘Requires Training’ (leave the squares blank) to ‘Able to Train Others’ (all four squares completed)
Strikethrough where a skill is not applicable to a person or group

7. Example Skills and Training Matrix

8. Tips for creating a Skills and Training Matrix
The matrix can be used to identify skills for groups of people or to help design a training plan for individual members of staff

9. What Next?
Create actions for the action plan to deliver the required training to the appropriate staff members