What Is the Skills Gap?
The skills gap is the disconnect between the skills your business needs and the skills your employees currently have.
To identify and close those gaps, you first need to define career goals that align employee development and performance management with your business. From there, you can deliver personalised learning journeys that help learners perform better.
With the right setup, your Docebo becomes a live dashboard of organisational capability. Not just a course catalogue.
It gives you real-time insight into where your teams excel and where they need support. See what we mean?
The Growing Skills Gap Challenge
The global skills gap is widening.
According to LinkedIn’s 2025 Workplace Learning Report, 33% of organisations have no career development programmes. Plus, more than 60% of leaders say skills development is their biggest challenge for the year ahead.
Your people are now expected to do more, learn more, and grow faster than ever. When they don’t feel they’re getting this, they leave and take their experience, knowledge, and potential with them.
That’s the harsh truth behind today’s skills gap crisis.
Employees aren’t just looking for jobs anymore. They’re looking for growth. When that growth isn’t happening internally they’ll find it somewhere else. This results in higher turnover, lower employee engagement and can actually impact innovation long-term.
We use Docebo to close that gap. With a clear strategy in place Docebo doesn’t just deliver training, it empowers you to identify, measure, and close skills gaps.
3 ways designed to bridge the skills gap using Docebo and GuyKat
Skills Management
If your courses and assets aren’t linked to defined skills in Docebo, you’ll lose the visibility needed to close gaps effectively.
First, make sure that the Skills Management feature is activated. Then, you can use the Docebo Skills library (10,000+ skills) or curate your own to identify what competencies are required for each role and where the gaps exist. These simple steps transforms your library from a list of courses into a strategic skills ecosystem!
Tracking learning is easy, but tracking impact takes intention. To truly understand how your learning strategy closes the skills gap, you need to measure not just course completions, but skills growth. Therefore, we recommend aligning your Docebo reports with HR or performance data to uncover meaningful connections such as improved productivity, reduced turnover, or faster time-to-competence. You can then see which skills have improved, how performance has changed, and what impact learning has had.
Role-Based Learning Plans
Learning plans are curated sequences of courses designed to guide employees through a structured development journey. Once you’ve identified where the skills gaps exist in your organisation, you can use Docebo to build bespoke learning plans. Each plan should blend a mix of learning formats (from interactive SCORM modules and virtual classroom sessions). This multi-format approach supports different learning styles and keeps your learners engaged.
When building these plans, off-the-shelf content can only take you so far. Real value comes from custom-built learning that reflects your people, processes, and priorities. That’s where GuyKat’s expert team comes in! By creating short, scenario-based modules you can deliver learning experiences that are more relevant, memorable, and actionable than any generic training. These modules make it easier for learners to connect new knowledge directly to their day-to-day work. Plus, they’re proven to drive higher retention and engagement rates. Once developed, link these custom modules to the relevant skills in Docebo.
You want to go one step further! You can visually transform these journeys so learners can clearly see how each course contributes to their professional growth with our learning roadmaps. We transform learning plans from static content libraries into visual maps that improve engagement and keep learners motivated as they advance through their learning journey.
Want to see what this looks like in practice?
My Team Dashboard
Managers are the bridge between learning and performance. Their participation is what turns learning data into meaningful career growth.
That’s why our third suggestion is using the Docebo’s My Team Dashboard. This is such a powerful tool to give managers a clear, real-time view of their team’s skills progress, assigned learning paths, completion status, and overdue courses, all in one place. It also includes target competence levels, helping leaders quickly identify where support or coaching is needed most. Managers can move beyond compliance tracking as it allows them to have more meaningful one-to-one conversations about growth, potential, and the next step in an employee’s journey.
Ready to make learning measurable? Our consultants can show you how.
Ready to close your skills gaps?
The smartest learning strategies are about building a skills-first culture.
Let’s talk about how GuyKat can help you build a smarter, skills-driven learning strategy on Docebo:
- Our platform consultants can show you how to make it work for your team.
- Need custom content? We create skills friendly content tailored to your business.
- Interested in Learning Roadmaps? GuyKat’s design and development specialists can bring it to life.
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