🌟 Event Recap: How are we using Skills at Kallidus?

Thanks to everyone who joined our live session! Here’s a quick round‑up of what we covered and the biggest takeaways to help you on your own skills journey.

If you missed it and want to watch it back, you can find the recording here the the Academy. 

🔍 Our Story So Far

Justin took us through Kallidus’ internal journey with Skills: from joining as the first dedicated L&D lead, to building relationships, understanding the business, and uncovering what really matters to people, managers, and the SLT.
The main message? There’s no “perfect” way to implement skills - only the way that works for your organisation.

🎯 Where to Start: Know Your Business

A major theme of the session was focus. Rather than jumping straight into mapping skills or building big frameworks, we explored why the most powerful starting point is understanding:

• What your organisation cares about
• Where the biggest problems or opportunities are
• How skills can directly impact those business outcomes

From this, we identified four key outcome areas that influence skills strategy:
Productivity, Retention, Risk, and Revenue.

🧱 Our Four Strategic Skill Pillars

To keep our rollout focused and meaningful, we identified four pillars tied directly to Kallidus’ strategic goals:

AI – building capability for efficiency and innovation
Outcomes – helping teams speak the language of impact and ROI
Leading Self – supporting growth, confidence, and self-awareness
Navigating Change – empowering people to adapt and drive change

These pillars guide our skill choices, development conversations, and measurement approach.

📏 Measurement That Matters

We discussed the importance of combining:

Lagging measures (e.g., ARR, revenue per employee, turnover, compliance risk)
Leading indicators (e.g., learning activity, case studies, survey sentiment, review quality)

This mix helps paint a meaningful picture of progress without waiting a year for the results.

💡 Your Three Key Takeaways

If you do nothing else, start here:

Know your business – understand what outcomes matter most right now.
Build relationships – especially with senior leaders; conversation is everything.
Pause before launching – if you can’t link your skills work to a business outcome, rethink it.

💬 Want to know what we did next? 

Make sure you’re signed up for Part 2, where Justin will share how Skills was implemented, what functionality was used and why and how stakeholders were engaged across the business for the initial launch.