viSkills by Aderant Skills Management software helps firms nurture well-rounded professionals and improve performance across the organization. It facilitates the creation of an effective skills management process, including a skills library and benchmarks, enabling your workforce to perform at its highest level. With effective skills tracking, your firm can improve productivity and performance, respond effectively to opportunities and change, and inform performance management, learning and training plans, professional development planning, and work allocation. The software allows you to systematize skills management to strengthen competencies and client work. You can dictate the skills your people will need to advance by creating a central repository that shows employees what skills they should be developing as they progress, organized by competency and career stage. The system allows you to pinpoint missing skills and work experience, track skills acquired from projects and client work, and gain a bird’s-eye view of your organization’s skills with status reports and automatic reminders.

Features:

• Dictate the skills your people will need to advance: Create a central repository that shows employees what skills they should be developing as they progress. For legal services skills, you may want to organize requirements by competency and then break them down by career stage (early, mid-level, senior). You can establish general skills across departments, such as leadership skills, or skills for each job or role. Choose whether progress is tracked by experience (from no experience with a skill all the way to mastering it) or by the number of times employees complete the skill.
• Pinpoint missing skills and work experience: Use employee skills tracking to predict what each person is missing and what experience they need. As your people train and practice, they can use our skills management software to quickly update any progress and leave comments. Follow their overall progress (how many skills are complete, in progress, incomplete, or not started) and pinpoint what skill gaps they need to fill to advance in your organization. Employees can prioritize getting work experience to meet those requirements and managers can also strategically assign them relevant work.
• Track skills acquired from projects and client work: To better track their employee skills progress while handling work for numerous clients, law firms and organizations can choose to have people update their skills based on each assignment or matter. Skills management software can integrate with your billing system so people can track their progress based on the work they bill for. It makes it easy on them, because they can consider everything they contributed to an individual project and update all their relevant skills in one go.
• Get a bird’s-eye view of your organization’s skills: Review a status report of who has updated their skills, with automatic reminders sent out to those who haven’t. Reminders can be sent out regularly, including weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Check on people who have no recorded experience in certain skills or find people with extensive experience in the skills you need. With a firm-wide view of data that can be filtered by department, office, or practice group, see what collective skills and experience your firm has. Identify expertise gaps and fill them with strategic talent management.