Skills Development

Skills development that starts with what your team already knows.

Link learning to real skills, job roles and content so you can see where your people stand and give them a clear path to what their role needs.

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Built for SMEs and scaling teams

Help people grow into their next role

Learners choose an aspiring job title, and the skills for that role become the skills they work towards. Update a role once and everyone aiming for it updates too.

Upskill

Close the distance between a learner's current level and the level they're aiming for.

Reskill

Move into a different role with a clear list of skills to earn.

Keep roles current

Change a job title's skills once. Everyone aiming for that role sees it.

How it works

From skills on paper to skills in practice

Define what matters, link it to roles and training, and let progress build as people learn.

1. Define

Start with the skills that matter to your business

Bring your skills together in one organised list, with categories, types and proficiency levels.

Organise skills by category and type

Each skill has 5 levels from novice to expert

Archive skills you no longer use, with the history kept

A shared language for capability across your team.

Create skills with a name, category and type. Track each one as simply held or not held, or at five levels from Novice to Expert.

Start with the skills that matter to your business

Map: Connect skills to roles and to trainin

Organise skills by category and type

Each skill has 5 levels from novice to expert

Archive skills you no longer use, with the history kept

A shared language for capability across your team.

2. Map

Connect skills to roles and to training.

Link each skill to the job titles that need it, with the level the role requires. Link it to the content that builds it, with the level it develops.

Map job titles to the skills and levels a role requires

Map courses and other content to the skills they build

Edit or remove mappings as roles and content change

Clear expectations for every role, and a reason for every course.

Learning management table showing learner progress, start dates, due dates, and enrolment details.

Connect skills to roles and to training.

Link each skill to the job titles that need it, with the level the role requires. Link it to the content that builds it, with the level it develops.

Map job titles to the skills and levels a role requires

Map courses and other content to the skills they build

Edit or remove mappings as roles and content change

Clear expectations for every role, and a reason for every course.

3. Develop

Learners see the skills they have and the ones to earn.

Every learner gets a skills profile on their My Progress page. Completing mapped learning awards the skill at the right level.

Skills are awarded on completing mapped content, a standalone quiz, a pathway or a campaign

Self-added skills are shown separately from achieved skills

Skills to Earn keeps their targets in view

A record that builds as people learn.

Learner dashboard with summary cards and a jump-back-in course banner.

Learners see the skills they have and the ones to earn.

Every learner gets a skills profile on their My Progress page. Completing mapped learning awards the skill at the right level.

Skills are awarded on completing mapped content, a standalone quiz, a pathway or a campaign

Self-added skills are shown separately from achieved skills

Skills to Earn keeps their targets in view

A record that builds as people learn.

Manager view

See who has which skills, and at what level.

Open any skill to see who holds it, how far they've got, and the training and job titles linked to it. Use what you see to decide what to train next.

People who hold the skill, counted by level

Linked content and job titles in one place

The level each job needs, shown next to who holds it

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Learner view

Give every person a clear view of where they stand.

My Progress shows what a learner has achieved, what they have added themselves and what they are working towards, with their current level beside their target. Achieved skills link back to the content that earned them.

Achieved skills, awarded by completing mapped learning

Self-added skills, claimed with a level the learner sets

Skills to Earn, drawn from their aspiring role or the targets they choose

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Who is it for

Built for your team

From the first hire to the fiftieth, skills stay clear

Compliance and Operations

Make every required course count towards a skill.

Connect required courses to skills

Keep a history of what's been achieved

Archive outdated skills without losing records

HR

Turn job titles into clear skill expectations.

Map each role to the skills it needs

Support internal moves with aspiring roles

Keep one record of skills across the team

Team managers

Help your people grow, not just get through training.

See who holds each skill and at which level

See the content linked to each skill

Support development conversations with a shared record

Scaling teams

Let people grow as the business changes.

Define skills as the business changes

Onboard to a clear set of skills

Track simply now, and add depth when you need it

Stop stitching training together from separate tools.

Writing, approving and publishing shouldn't need three different tools. Sodium does all three in one place.

What you need to do

Spreadsheets and appraisals

Sodium Learn

Know who has which skill

Out of date by the next review

A skills profile for every person

Link training to a skill

Guess which course helps

Content mapped to skills and levels

Set what a role needs

Job descriptions

Job titles mapped to skills and levels

Support a move to a new role

A manual plan per person

Built-in approval and audit trail

FAQ

Everything you need to know

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What is a skill in Sodium?

A structured record with a category, a type and optional levels. It connects to content, job titles and learners, so it's more than a label.

Do I need to use levels?

No. Track a skill as held or not held, or use five levels: Novice, Advanced Beginner, Competent, Proficient and Expert.

How do I link skills to job roles and training?

Map each skill to the job titles that need it, with the level the role requires. Then map it to the courses and other content that build it, with the level they develop. You can edit or remove mappings as roles and content change.

How do learners earn a skill?

A skill is awarded when a learner completes content mapped to it. Standalone quizzes, pathways and campaigns can also award skills.

Can learners add their own skills?

Yes. Self-added skills are shown separately from achieved skills, so your record of what people have earned stays clear.

Can learners set their own targets?

Yes. A learner can choose an aspiring job title, which brings in the skills for that role, or add skills they want to develop. These appear under Skills to Earn.

What happens when I change a job title's skills?

Learners who have that job title as their aspiring role are updated automatically. You change it once and everyone aiming for that role sees it.

Do I need a separate skills tool?

No. Skills sit alongside your content, pathways and campaigns in Sodium, so you don't need to keep skills in a separate tool or spreadsheet.