Skill Passports in Everday are dynamic profiles designed to provide a detailed and actionable view of each team member’s skills, roles, growth areas, and career aspirations. As a manager, Skill Passports help you make data-driven decisions to unlock your team’s potential and align their strengths with organisational goals.
By reviewing Skill Passports, managers can:
- Gain a holistic view of individual strengths and growth areas.
- Support tailored career development plans.
- Match employees with roles, projects, or opportunities that align with their skills and ambitions.
What’s included in a Skill Passport?
The Skill Passport is organized into several tabs, each offering unique insights into an employee’s capabilities and potential:
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Roles
- Understand the roles an employee plays across teams and their ambition for future roles.
- Includes:
- Current role: Their position and its key expectations.
- Team roles: Displays how the employee contributes differently across projects or teams.
- Ambition: Captures the employee’s career aspirations to help align development goals.
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Essential Skills and Growth Areas
- Displays the critical skills required for their current role or ambition and where they stand:
- Skill gaps: Visual indicators show how close or far the employee is from meeting role expectations (e.g., 1 for smaller gaps vs. 4 for larger growth areas).
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Detailed skill insights: Clicking on a skill provides:
- Current level.
- Steps to improve.
- Why the skill matters for their role or ambition.
- Displays the critical skills required for their current role or ambition and where they stand:
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Values and Interests
- Highlights what motivates the employee and their focus areas:
- Values: Core drivers like collaboration, independence, or achievement.
- Interests: Suggested focus areas like leadership, problem-solving, or creativity to align with opportunities.
- Highlights what motivates the employee and their focus areas:
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Assessments and Feedback
- Tracks completed self-assessments and 360º feedback, providing a well-rounded view of strengths and areas for improvement.
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Experience
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Highlights career achievements, certifications, and previous roles, making it easier to connect internal talent with opportunities.
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How to enhance Skill Passports
Skill Passports evolve with the employee. Here’s how you can ensure they remain accurate and valuable:
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Start AI-Guided Conversations
- Use Everday’s AI to refine an employee’s skill profile and uncover hidden talents.
Steps to start an AI conversation:
- Navigate to the employee’s Skill Passport.
- Select Start Interview under the Skills tab.
- Choose a skill set to which you would like to assess the team member, could be their current or future role, and then our AI system will generate personalized questions related to this set of skills.
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Initiate 360º Feedback
- Launch a 360º feedback assessment to validate skills with input from peers, managers, or team members.
Steps to start a 360º assessment:
- Go to the employee’s Skill Passport.
- Click Start Assessment and select the skills to assess, evaluators, and completion deadline.
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Encourage Regular Updates
- Prompt employees to log new achievements, certifications, or skills as they grow.
Pro Tip: Combining AI-guided conversations with 360º feedback ensures a comprehensive, accurate profile for decision-making.
How to use Skill Passports as a manager
Skill Passports are actionable tools that help you:
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Identify talent for roles or projects
- Quickly spot employees who are ready for new opportunities or who have the skills needed for upcoming projects.
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Plan development paths
- Use Essential Skills and Growth Areas to design personalized training or mentorship plans.
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Support internal mobility
- Leverage Values and Interests to align employees with roles or projects that fit their goals and motivations.
Best practices for managing Skill Passports
- Review regularly: Check Skill Passports quarterly or after major assessments to keep profiles current.
- Collaborate with employees: Use Passports to facilitate meaningful career conversations and align ambitions with team needs.
- Take action on insights: Use the data to make informed decisions about hiring, role transitions, or succession planning.
Why Skill Passports matter for managers
Skill Passports go beyond static profiles—they’re dynamic tools that let you:
- Visualize team potential: See strengths, gaps, and opportunities at a glance.
- Support career growth: Align employee goals with tailored development plans.
- Make smarter decisions: Match skills to roles, projects, and organizational goals with confidence.
Example: Need to build a team for a high-impact project? Use Skill Passports to identify employees with complementary strengths and ensure the team is set up for success.
By effectively managing Skill Passports, you empower employees to grow while ensuring your team remains aligned with organisational goals.
Next Steps
- Log in to Everday and start exploring your team’s Skill Passports.
- Schedule time with employees to discuss their roles, ambitions, and growth areas.
- Use insights to refine team structures, assign projects, and plan development paths.
Ready to unlock the full potential of your team? Start using Skill Passports today!