SHL’s 15-minute Global Skills Assessment measures 96 behavioral skills—revealing hidden strengths, skills gaps, and untapped capabilities across your workforce.
Why Skills Development Matters
47% of workers say they’d leave for better upskilling opportunities.¹
Employees aren’t just hoping for development—they’re frustrated when it’s missing. Many feel unseen, stuck, or unsure of how to grow. Without clear feedback or direction, ambition turns into disengagement—and talent walks out the door.
SHL’s Skills Development Solution changes that. With objective data and personalized insights, employees gain clarity and confidence—while you get the visibility to support growth, close skills gaps, and retain your people.
Measure Skills Across Your Organization
Give your people the clarity they want and your organization the data it needs to plan better for hiring, skills development, and internal mobility.
Employees receive personalized reports with actionable advice, clearly outlining their strengths and areas to develop. Equip people to own their career paths without adding complexity for managers.
Use SHL’s Reskilling Potential Assessment to identify employees with high adaptability and learning agility—ideal for filling future roles and addressing organizational change.
SHL’s interactive dashboards clarify your talent landscape. Quickly explore strengths and skills gaps by role, location, or team to inform strategic planning, onboarding, and targeted development.
Where Your Skills Data Adds Value
Skills-based Talent Audit
Scientifically identify the skills of individuals, teams, departments, and organizations.
Upskilling and Reskilling
Support employees and line managers in creating skills-based development plans.
Skills-based Onboarding
Re-use skills assessment data collected during hiring, employees can gain insight into their skills strengths and development areas to support their onboarding and career development.
Ready to take the next step?
Get the most from your skills data by reusing it to match employees to new opportunities and opportunities to employees with SHL Talent Mobility.
“Companies that operate in a more dynamic, more skills-centric way are clearly outperforming their peers”
Josh Bersin, SHL Virtual Summit 2024
Skills Development: Demo Hub
Our interactive tours will show you how to uncover strengths and skills gaps on your team.
SHL has not only helped us understand the skills of individuals within our business, but also enabled us to provide personalized skills-based development plans—empowering employees to own their own career development.David Blackburn
Senior Advisor for Skills at the Bank of England
We had a pleasant experience with SHL and their various assessment tools, which provided valuable insights that helped us better identify suitable candidates and understand our team members’ skills, strengths and areas for improvement.Lourence Ho
Assistant Vice President of HR
Sands China Ltd
Skills Development
Frequently Asked Questions
Use SHL’s Global Skills Assessment (GSA), a short, scientifically validated assessment that objectively measures 96 workplace skills in just 15 minutes, delivering instant insights.
Add the 4-minute Reskilling Potential Assessment to understand which employees are most likely to adapt and grow into new roles, helping you make smarter workforce transformation decisions.
SHL provides real-time dashboards that visually highlight skill strengths and gaps at all organizational levels, helping you easily interpret assessment data and enabling rapid, informed, data-driven development decisions.
Yes, SHL’s Global Skills Assessment (GSA) is developed by leading industrial-organizational psychologists and validated against extensive global norms, ensuring accuracy, fairness, and legal defensibility.
SHL’s Skills Development solution offers a standardized and validated skills framework that reduces complexity and delivers transferable, organization-wide insights. If you already use your own framework, SHL can map its Universal Competency Framework (UCF) and 96-skill taxonomy directly to it, ensuring seamless integration and continuity.
Absolutely. Each employee receives a personalized Skills Development Report highlighting their strengths and areas for growth with development tips, empowering proactive career management.
Yes. SHL’s assessment data seamlessly integrates from hiring to onboarding and ongoing development, ensuring consistency and maximizing the value of your skills investment.
Both matter. Technical skills, such as coding languages or certifications, can date quickly as technology and business needs shift. Behavioral skills like communication, critical thinking, adaptability are more durable and stay relevant as roles evolve. SHL’s GSA specifically measures these durable behavioral skills, providing scalable and transferable data for your organization.
Read more in ‘The Skills-First Workforce: A Strategic Guide to Internal Hiring and Mobility.’
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When employees know their strengths—and you know your workforce’s skill landscape—you can grow together.
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