Tuning Up Employee Performance

One great way to retain great employees? Help them grow the future skills they find most meaningful to their career.

But as a manager, how do you make sure those skills complement and balance with other team members, and also align with the future needs of your company? Principal designer Brian Mila shares a creative and innovative experiment in skill mapping (built in Figma) that he uses for the design team at Lextech.

"I wanted a way to allow our team to grow and develop their skills in a way that both aligned with Lextech’s business goals and also provided a way for them to stretch into new areas that they were interested in learning," Mila says. "I realized we didn’t have a way to track that today, so I created a skills matrix that allowed us to visualize our team’s skills and also track knowledge gain over time."

Read the full article with illustrations on Medium: https://medium.com/@brian.mila/tuning-up-employee-performance-7e5335e596db