Roles & Groups
Organize skills, competencies and behaviors
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You can view all current roles in your organization by selecting Manage > Roles from the left sidebar menu. You can add new roles from this page, as well as manage Assignment of these roles to specific users.
You can add sections to roles by selecting the [Add Section] button from within a role. This allows for categorizing skills together (e.g. Business Acumen, Problem Solving, etc).
Once you've create a Role or Group, you can add skills by navigating to the Role page as an admin user and clicking Add Skill.
You can edit a skill record by selecting the pencil icon in the right hand of each table row.
You can manage assignment by selecting a Role or Group, and then selecting the [Assign] button in the top right corner of the page.
Roles and Groups have similar functionality in SkillsDB, but allow for more flexible ways to organize competencies to match the structure of your organization.
Example 2: Delta Corp has 5,000 global employees. They use a Group called "Delta Company Values" to organize their core values with defined behaviors, which is assigned to all employees worldwide in addition to their function-specific roles.
Example 3: Gamma Corp has 600 employees. They have values and job families defined within Groups and also use Roles to define specific engineering skills related to their different engineering functions.
Once selected, you will see a list of all users who are currently assigned to this Role or Group, along with their , if applicable.
Once a user has been assigned to a role, they will see these skills in their .
All of their assigned roles, groups and related skills be be included in any future .
If have been configured, users will only see the skills that apply to their specific level assignment.
Example 1: Acme Corp has 8 job families that categorize relevant employee functions within their 1,500 person organization, such as finance, sales, marketing, and software engineering. Acme then uses Roles to define relevant competencies for each job family, along with a unique .
Example 4: Zeta Corp has 2,700 employees, half of which are consultants. Zeta uses Groups to define competencies related to specific long term client projects. Users are assigned these groups when they join the project and can while ramping up.
