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# Analyze Skills
> Learn how to use My Team Skills and the Skills Matrix to assess team proficiency, identify skill gaps, and prioritize development decisions for your direct reports.
**Quick Summary:** The My Team Skills page gives managers a career-by-career view of their team's skills. Drill into any career to see proficiency statistics, open the Skills Matrix to compare individual grades against benchmarks, and export the data to Excel for deeper analysis.
# Overview
The **My Team Skills** page is the starting point for analyzing your team's skill proficiency in SkillsDB. It organizes your team's data by career path, giving you a high-level view of how many people are assigned to each career and how many skills are attached to each path.
From this view you can drill into any career to access the **Career Overview** — a dashboard of proficiency statistics and visualizations for that career — and then into the **Skills Matrix**, where you can see every person's grade for every skill side by side, compare against benchmarks, and identify gaps at a glance.
Only managers and administrators can access My Team Skills. Employees see only their own profile and cannot access team-level skill data.
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# Navigating to My Team Skills
To open the team skills view:
1. Select **Skills** from the **Team** section of the left sidebar.
The **My Team Skills** page opens in the **Direct Reports** view by default, listing your team's assigned careers in a table grouped by career type (for example, "Job Role"). Three scope buttons at the top of the page control which people are included:
| View | What it shows |
| ------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Direct Reports** | Careers assigned to your immediate direct reports only |
| **My Org** | Careers across your full reporting organization, including indirect reports |
| **All** | All careers across the entire company (available to administrators only) |
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## Understanding the team skills table
The main table on My Team Skills has the following columns:
| Column | What it shows |
| ------------ | --------------------------------------------------- |
| **Name** | Career or role name |
| **Labels** | Any labels applied to this career in SkillsDB |
| **Assigned** | Number of team members assigned to this career path |
| **Skills** | Number of skills attached to this career |
You can sort the table by any column. Select a column header to sort ascending; select it again to sort descending.
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## Exploring a Career
Selecting a career name in the table opens the **Career Overview** page for that career. This page provides a statistical summary of how your team is performing across all skills in that career.
**Summary statistics**
Seven statistics appear at the top of the Career Overview:
| Stat | What it means |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Total People** | Number of team members in this career group |
| **Total Assign** | Number of people with skills assigned from this career |
| **Total Skills** | Number of skills in this career path |
| **Meets Target** | Percentage of people who meet or exceed the benchmark grade |
| **Below Target** | Percentage of people whose grades fall below benchmark |
| **Training Resources** | Number of learning resources linked to skills in this career |
| **Skills w/ Training** | Number of skills in this career that have at least one training resource |
**Charts and visualizations**
Below the statistics, the Career Overview displays proficiency visualizations including heatmaps, comparative bar charts, donut charts, and skill distribution breakdowns by person and skill. These give you a quick pattern-level view of where your team is strong and where gaps are concentrated.
**Top and bottom performers**
The Career Overview also shows:
* **Top performers** — Team members with the highest average grade in this career
* **Bottom performers** — Team members with the lowest average grade, indicating where targeted support may be needed
Select a person's name to navigate directly to their individual profile.
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## Opening the Skills Matrix
The Skills Matrix is the detailed grid view where you can see every team member's grade for every skill in a career, compared against the benchmark.
To open the Skills Matrix from the Career Overview select the **Total Assign** stat card, or navigate directly from the breadcrumb. The Skills Matrix opens showing a grid with team members as rows and skills as columns.
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## Reading Grade indicators
Each cell in the Skills Matrix shows a grade badge that communicates both the raw grade and how it compares to the benchmark for that skill.
| Indicator | Color | Meaning |
| ----------------- | ----- | ----------------------------------------- |
| Up arrow | Blue | Grade exceeds the benchmark |
| Star | Green | Grade exactly meets the benchmark |
| Down arrow | Red | Grade falls below the benchmark |
| Circle (no grade) | Gray | No grade has been recorded for this skill |
The badge also displays the numeric grade value and the difference from the benchmark — for example, `+1` means one grade point above benchmark, and `-2` means two points below.
**Note:** The grading scale labels (such as "Beginner" through "Expert") are configured by your organization's administrator. The exact values shown depend on your account's grading scale settings.
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## Switching Views
The Skills Matrix page offers six different views, selectable from the view bar in the breadcrumb area. Each view presents your team's skills data through a different lens.
| View | What it shows |
| ------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Skills Matrix** | Grid of team members x skills with grade badges and benchmark indicators |
| **Training Matrix** | Grid view focused on training completion status for each skill |
| **Skills Flag** | Grid view showing flag indicators (Expert, Mentor, Focus, Interest) per person per skill |
| **Nightingale** | Circular "rose" chart showing proficiency distribution across skills |
| **Bar Chart** | Bar chart comparing average grades across skills or team members |
| **Learning** | Training progress bar chart showing learning completion by skill |
**Switching between Manager and Employee grades**
When in the **Skills Matrix** view, two grade tabs appear at the top of the grid:
* **Manager** — Displays grades that managers have assessed for each team member
* **Employee** — Displays the self-assessed grades that team members have submitted
Switching between these tabs updates every cell in the grid simultaneously. Use this to compare how a manager's view of proficiency aligns with team members' self-assessments.
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## Filtering Your Team's Skills
The Skills Matrix page includes a comprehensive filter panel for narrowing down the people and skills shown in the grid.
**To open the filter panel:**
1. Select **Filters** in the page toolbar.
2. The filter panel opens to the left of the grid.
**Available filters:**
| Filter | What it does |
| ---------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **People** | Show only specific team members by selecting their names |
| **Performance** | Filter by performance level — for example, show only people with the highest or lowest average grade |
| **Skill Flags** | Show only skills or people with a specific flag applied (Focus, Expert, Mentor, Interest) |
| **Grade Scale** | Filter by grade value — for example, show only skills graded at 3 or above |
| **Levels** | Filter by career level within the selected career path |
| **Required** | Show all skills, or filter to required-only or non-required skills |
| **Organizational Structure** | Filter by department, division, region, or team grouping |
**Direct reports filter (administrators only)**
Administrators see an additional **Direct Reports** toggle button. When enabled, the grid filters to show only the administrator's direct reports rather than their full org.
Filters can be combined. Select **Match all** to require every filter condition to be met, or **Match any** to show results matching at least one condition. Select **Clear all** to reset all filters at once.
**Tip:** Use the **Below Target** performance filter combined with a specific career to quickly identify which team members need the most support in a given skill area.
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## **Exporting skills data**
You can export the current Skills Matrix view to Excel for sharing, reporting, or further analysis outside of SkillsDB.
To export:
1. Open the Skills Matrix for the career you want to export.
2. Apply any filters to show the data you need.
3. Select the **Export** button (download icon) in the top toolbar.
The export reflects exactly what is currently visible in the grid, including any active filters and the selected grade type (Manager or Employee).
**Important:** The export captures the current view only. If you have filters applied, only the filtered results are included in the exported file. Remove filters before exporting if you need a complete data set.
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# Common Questions
The Career Overview provides aggregate statistics and visualizations — it answers "how is the team performing overall?" The Skills Matrix provides individual-level data in a grid — it answers "what is each person's grade for each skill?" Both pages analyze the same underlying data, at different levels of granularity.
The Skills Matrix shows one career at a time. The main My Team Skills page gives you a cross-career summary (how many people and skills are in each career), but the detailed grade-by-grade analysis happens within a single career. If your team spans multiple career paths, navigate to each career separately.
A gray circle means no grade has been recorded for that person and skill. This can happen if a manager assessment has not been completed for that team member, or if the team member has not submitted a self-assessment. Use the Skills Matrix to identify ungraded skills and prioritize them in your next assessment cycle.
Yes. Switch to the **Skills Flag** view to see and manage flag indicators per person per skill. You can apply or remove flags such as Expert, Mentor, and Focus from within this view. See Skill Flags for more detail on what each flag means.
"Meets Target" is the percentage of team members whose average grade for the skills in that career meets or exceeds the benchmark grade. Benchmarks are set per skill per career and represent the expected proficiency level for the role. You can customize benchmarks from the Manager Guide — see [Customizing Benchmarks](/manager-guide/customizing-benchmarks).
Yes. Select a team member's name or avatar in the Skills Matrix to navigate to their individual profile, where you can see their full skill history, assessment results, certifications, and learning plan.
Yes. Select a skill name at the top of a column to navigate to the skill detail page, which includes a **Resource** tab listing all training materials linked to that skill. Alternatively, switch to the **Learning** view on the Skills Matrix to see training progress across the grid.
My Team Skills and the Skills Matrix are visible to managers and administrators only. Individual employees cannot access these views. Employees see only their own skills data from their personal Skills Profile.
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# Related Articles
Overview of your team roster, direct reports, and team structure
How to conduct and submit skill assessments for your team
Review training completion and progress across your team
Set and adjust benchmark grades for skills in your team's careers
Understand Focus, Expert, Mentor, and Interest flags and how to apply them
How proficiency gaps are calculated and what they mean
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# Need Help?
If you run into any issues or have questions, reach out to your organization's SkillsDB administrator or contact [SkillsDB Support](https://www.skillsdb.com/support).