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AUTHOR:
The Eightfold team
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Talent Management

Manager Skill Insights

DATE:
AUTHOR: The Eightfold team

WHAT'S INCLUDED

Until now, managers had no consolidated way to see skill trends across their team inside Career Hub;the only options were checking each employee's profile individually or exporting data to a spreadsheet outside the product. Skill Insights adds a new tab within the My Team page that rolls up skill data — popular skills, skill gaps against role requirements, skill strengths, skill interests, and (where assessment data is configured) proficiency — across a manager's direct reports or their full extended organization. Managers can filter the rollup by role or skill, drill into any metric to see the exact employees behind it, and open a development plan directly from that drill-down list.

WHY IT MATTERS

  • See team-wide skill gaps against role requirements without manually reviewing each employee's profile

  • Filter by role or skill to focus the whole dashboard on what matters for a specific initiative or project

  • Drill down from any aggregate insight straight to the list of employees behind it, then start a development plan from that list

  • Roll up skills for direct reports only, or the entire extended team reporting up through the management hierarchy (not just first-level reports)

FEATURE DETAILS

Who can access

Managers and org leaders — anyone with at least one direct or indirect report — within Career Hub's My Team page.

Feature type

Default On

Requirements

  • Career Hub, Team Planning, and My Team v2 must already be enabled for the tenant

  • Role skill requirements (benchmarks) must be configured for skill gap/strength/meets comparisons to be meaningful

  • Self- and/or manager-assessment data is not required to use the dashboard, but improves the insights displayed

  • If skill assessment is enabled, the dashboard includes assessment-based insights such as skill gaps and strengths (comparing actual skills against benchmarks)

  • If skill assessment is not enabled, the dashboard shows basic skill insights including popular skills, skill interests, and role distribution

  • Unassessed skills are shown under an "unknown" category rather than being dropped from the dashboard

GETTING STARTED

Admins: Enable Manager Insights for the tenant in Admin Console → Product Setup, and select which views, widgets to show, and which assessment data source (self vs. manager) should drive the proficiency-based widgets. To know more, read Manager Skill Insights.

End users: Managers can go to My Team → Skill Insights. Toggle between "Direct reports" and "All reports," use the Role and Skill filters to narrow the view, and click into any widget to drill down to the employees behind it.  From there, you can open an employee's profile or create a development plan.

For more details, watch the following video.

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