Skills Management
Accelerate skills development and reduce training time and cost
Maximize skills versatility and coverage
Poka's skills matrix and management capabilities give workers and team leads the power to oversee and stay current with role-specific and factory training. You can spend less time updating spreadsheets, and focus more on identifying training priorities and workforce development opportunities.
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How Poka Skills Matrix Can Help your Factory
Lower training costs by reducing shadowing and overtime hours
Onboard new employees quicker speeding time to productivity
Fuel worker development, increase engagement & drive retention
Improve safety, quality & Overall Equipment Effectivements (OEE)
Gain real-time visibility into training completion and skills gaps
Frequently Asked Questions About Skills Matrix & Skills Management
A skills matrix is a structured view of what competencies, certifications, or skills employees are expected to have (by role, station, or process). Poka’s skills matrix gives team leads and workers a visual, real-time dashboard of skills status (e.g. “trained,” “needs training,” “endorsed,” etc.).
It allows you to track completion, see coverage gaps (who is qualified or not), revise targets, and automatically assign skills based on roles or locations.
Poka offers several validation mechanisms, including:
Exams/quizzes: built-in tests that automatically score responses and record results.
Trainer endorsements / assessments: trusted supervisors or subject matter experts can review and endorse a worker’s competence.
Revision or re-certification policies: you can set expiration or retake rules so skills need ongoing validation.
These features help ensure the skills matrix reflects actual competence, not only checkbox completion.
Yes. Poka enables both global (factory-level) and individual skill targets and competency levels.
You can assign skills automatically based on job role and work location, and tailor training to specific functional needs.
Poka gives you visibility via the skills matrix and analytics dashboards to spot where coverage is weak, which workers lack critical skills, and which areas are overdue or underperforming.
Once gaps are identified, you can assign training programs, exams, or endorsements directly to those individuals.
You can also monitor progress over time and adjust targets or resources as needed.
Yes — Poka supports integration with your LMS via API, allowing worker skill statuses to update in your corporate system automatically.
This ensures synchronization between Poka’s skills data and other training or HR platforms, reducing duplication and maintaining data consistency.