3 Ways GuyKat Helps You Close the Skills Gap on Docebo
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.
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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.
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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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Build a Social Learning Hub in Docebo (the right way)
How GuyKat can help you build a social learning strategy that works
If you’ve ever heard, “We’d like to create a social learning hub,” you’ll know that’s both exciting and… slightly terrifying.
Social learning can transform how people learn at work but only if the experience is thoughtful, governed, and genuinely useful.
On Docebo, your social engine is the Community Hub. It allows your learners to ask questions and share knowledge within curated spaces that don’t feel like a dumping ground. This allows you to integrate a social learning environment directly into your Docebo platform.
There's also the option to leverage channels, if you want to include a social element widget within your existing custom pages, to enable your learners to ask questions and share assets, encouraging collaborative learning.
Done right, Communities and Channels are a great way to power social learning online. But how do you get it right the first time? We can share some tried-and-tested best practices we use when we help clients launch and sustain social learning at scale.
What is a “Social Learning Hub” in Docebo?
Think of it as the first step to learning from your people and making social learning part of everyday work.
- Communities for curated themes and spaces, with the ability to limit access to those who really need it. With communities geography is no longer a barrier as peers can connect around the world.
- Channels to upload quick wins, comment or recommend content based on interests and roles. Channels can include user-generated content so it’s completely unique to your organisation.
- Expert Q&A where your learners can ask subject-matter experts, receive fast, reliable guidance, and the published Q&A helps others learn from the same question.
- Gamification to nudge contributions and encourage participation through badges or rewards.
The goal isn’t more content. It’s faster problem-solving and better decisions because the right knowledge is discoverable, current, and trusted.
The business case (in one minute)
Reduce support tickets and repeat questions.
New starters land in curated channels with day-one essentials at their fingertips.
De-risk key-person dependency and capture all their expert answers.
Boost engagement with threads that link back to courses.
Proven impact with increased time-to-competence.
Helps fuel social learning where learners can connect with each other.
What’s the rollout?
We’ve created social hubs across industries, so we know where the snags are.
1) Design the experience before you build: Jump on a call with us to discuss and define your use case. You might want to map audiences to community spaces or channels (by role, region, journey stage). Avoid launching to everyone with everything, it’s better to create a personalised learning experience for your users.
2) See value on day one: Work with us to help you pre-load your Docebo with small nuggets like FAQs or 90-second demos. A blank hub will kill your momentum! Then, it’s over to you to make contributing effortless.
3) Build trust: Work with our team to develop a community governance strategy. Allocate experts and moderators to moderate lightly and curate actively to pin evergreen content in community spaces and archive stale, outdated contributions in channels.
Then, measure what matters through Insights dashboards, custom reports and quarterly health checks, turning your engagement data into demonstrable ROI.
Are you ready to build your hub?
If “We’d like to create a social learning hub” is on your roadmap, we’ll help you design it for outcomes, not noise.
We can jump in at any stage, from shaping your community strategy to full build-and-launch in Docebo, including content and insights dashboards for reporting.
Want a quick sanity check on your current plan? Share your list of audiences and goals and we’ll suggest a streamlined plan to get traction fast.
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GuyKat are Docebo’s longest standing partner. We have provided award-winning professional services and consulting to some of Docebo’s largest clients. GuyKat is passionate that project success comes from a great platform mixed with great content.
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GuyKat Shortlisted for Scaleup Company of the Year
GuyKat has been shortlisted for Scaleup Company of the Year... and why it matters to us
We are excited to be shortlisted for Scaleup Company of the Year at this year’s TechWM Awards.
We pour a lot into our people at GuyKat, so this recognition isn’t just about revenue curves or headcount graphs, it’s about the humans behind them.
At GuyKat, we believe great growth comes from great people. So we back ours with development, mentorship and everyday support. When we say we’re people-first, we mean it.
How we’ve scaled:
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People-first growth: Since 2020, we’ve tripled our headcount without losing our culture. We have achieved this through smart recruitment and internal development. Every single employee has regular, dedicated 1-1s. These sessions aren’t status updates, they’re check-ins on wellbeing, progress, challenges, and aspirations. They’re about unlocking the potential of individuals who want to grow.
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Putting our clients top of the list: We pair high client standards with real personal support. Last year, we exhibited at five international events, growing our visibility and reaching new markets. We have expanded our service offering with new partnerships including an AI-powered video creator, Colossyan.
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A Graduate Scheme that builds future leaders: We recruit graduates not just for what they know, but for their potential. Over the course of 18 months, graduates rotate through teams to help them find the area where their talents shine brightest. Each graduate is paired with a dedicated mentor in each rotation, given 1-1 development sessions with senior leadership, and encouraged to set personal and professional goals. By the end of the programme, they don’t just ‘slot into a job’, they become integral to shaping the future of their chosen team. The result? A retention rate of over 90% and a new generation of rising stars.
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Wellbeing you can feel: We’ve trained Mental Health First Aiders across the business so there’s always someone to talk to, no matter the challenge.
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Community that works online and off: We host monthly socials designed for everyone, including film club, pub trips, chess competitions, sports day, badminton sessions, curry night and virtual quizzes. We have friendships that started here, and it's all naturally happening across the business.
- Tools for better teamwork: We use DiSC personality profiling to help teams understand each other’s working styles and communicate more effectively.
The awards
For us, “scaleup” has never been shorthand for “grow at any cost”. It’s meant grow with intent, protecting what we do best, nurturing potential, and building a place where talented people can do the best! We’ve scaled consciously without losing what makes us "us" 💙 So best of luck to everyone nominated on Friday. There’s brilliant work happening across our region and whatever happens on the night we still feel lucky to be shortlisted.
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How Benefit Launched Bold, On-Brand Learning... And Why You Should Too
How Benefit Launched Bold, On-Brand Learning... And Why You Should Too
When your teams are serving customers all day, learning has to be fast to launch, easy to use, and unmistakably you.
That’s why Benefit Cosmetics chose GuyKat and FLOWSPARKS, a partnership that blends award-winning learning design with a flexible, component-based authoring platform.
Why partner with GuyKat & FLOWSPARKS
1) Launch at pace
Our team is full of expert consultants, IDs, designers and developers that can turns brand guidelines and training goals into polished modules, fast. FLOWSPARKS’ component-based authoring keeps build and review cycles lean, so you ship sooner.
2) An experience that feels 100% on-brand
We design learning that looks and sounds like you. No “off-the-shelf” vibe, everything we make is bespoke and an experience that learners actually want to open.
3) Built for real learners
With unrestricted navigation, resumable activities and bite-size content, leaners can learn in short bursts of learning on the go between day-to-day with no lost progress.
4) Deployment that fits your ecosystem
Distribute SCORMs to your LMSs, or use Event Pages or FastPass for rapid access. One content strategy, multiple routes to delivery.
5) Localise once
FLOWSPARKS’ AI-powered translation streamlines multilingual rollouts without duplicating SCORM files. Local teams can update copy and context quickly with no development required.
Proof in practice: Benefit’s rollout
The challenge
Benefit needed engaging, brand-true training for 12,000+ licensed aestheticians and Brow & Beauty Experts working in fast-paced retail settings, often learning on the job and in short bursts.
What we delivered
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Bite-sized modules combining product knowledge with practical selling skills
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End-to-end branding through UI and visual design
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Flexible delivery across SCORM, Event Pages, and FastPass
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Quick, maintainable localisation via FLOWSPARKS AI translation
Early impact
The US market (over half of Benefit’s global business) launched first across four retailers and brand boutiques, driving 7,189 activities in progress or completed during the initial phase.
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5 Signs Your eLearning Content Needs a Refresh
If your training is helping people fall asleep faster than it’s helping them learn, there's a problem.
Bored learners don’t change behaviour, retain knowledge, or deliver results. And if that sounds like what’s happening in your organisation, it could be a sign your eLearning content needs a refresh.
Great training should do more than tick boxes. It should inspire learners, equip them with knowledge they’ll remember, and empower them to apply it in the real world. If your courses aren’t doing that, it’s time to take a closer look.
Here are five red flags to look out for:
1. Your content looks dated
Design matters more than many people think. Today’s learners are surrounded by sleek, modern digital experiences, so when your training looks like a recycled PowerPoint deck, it instantly feels outdated. A dated design not only hurts engagement, it can also damage how your brand is perceived. Learners should feel like the training they’re taking is an extension of your organisation: polished, professional, and on brand.
2. Learners aren’t engaging
If completion rates are low or learners are forgetting key takeaways, it might not be their attention span that’s at fault, it could be the format. Engagement comes from variety and interactivity. Content that is static, text-heavy, or overly linear leaves little room for learners to interact, reflect, or apply knowledge. The best eLearning invites participation through scenarios, quizzes, and practical challenges, keeping learners active rather than passive.
3. Your business has evolved, but your training hasn’t
Businesses don’t stand still. Processes change, products are updated, and priorities shift. But if your training is still teaching yesterday’s way of doing things, it’s actively holding your people back. Training should be a living, evolving resource that adapts to your organisation’s needs. Out-of-date content not only wastes time but can also create confusion and mistakes. Aligning learning with current strategy and processes ensures employees are equipped to deliver real impact.
4. It drags on too long
Modern learners are used to consuming information in short bursts. Long, lecture-style courses are a quick way to lose them. Bite-sized learning, often called microlearning, is proven to boost both retention and completion rates. Shorter modules fit naturally into the flow of work, making it easier for employees to apply what they’ve learned straight away. The result? Training that sticks.
5. There’s no clear goal
Every training programme should answer one question: What is in this for me? When there’s no clear purpose, learners feel like they’re completing training just to tick a box, and that’s when engagement drops. Clearly defined goals give learners context, motivation, and a sense of progress. For organisations, it also means results can be measured and tied back to business outcomes.
If any of these warning signs sound familiar, it’s time to move beyond an update and commit to a real eLearning content refresh.
Refreshing your eLearning isn’t just about giving it a facelift, it’s about delivering training that truly works.
- ✅ Modern design improves user experience and strengthens your brand.
- ✅ Short, focused modules help learners retain and apply knowledge.
- ✅ Alignment with business goals ensures training drives measurable results.
If any of these warning signs sound familiar, it’s time to move beyond an update and commit to a real eLearning content refresh.
The result? Training that engages learners, delivers value, and makes a lasting impact.
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Why AI Avatars Could Be the Game-Changer Your Business Needs
Why AI Avatars Could Be the Game-Changer Your Business Needs
When it comes to creating training, marketing, or internal communication videos, one truth remains: people connect with people.
Whether it’s a friendly face explaining a process, a confident presenter introducing a product, or a reassuring voice guiding learners through a scenario, a human touch makes your message stick.
Traditionally, that human touch meant scheduling time, booking studios, arranging lighting, filming days… and crossing your fingers that you wouldn’t need to re-shoot if something changed.
That’s where Colossyan’s AI avatars change the game.
Colossyan avatars give you the feel of speaking directly to a person, without the time, cost, or logistics of hiring a presenter. The avatars look natural, engage the viewer, and can deliver your content in multiple languages, perfect for global teams or diverse audiences.
How can we help?
For many businesses, the hardest part isn’t the technology, it’s knowing how to use it well. That’s where we come in.
At GuyKat, we help you get set up with Colossyan, guiding you from your very first video to a fully scalable content strategy. We don’t just hand over the technology, we help you make the most of it.
That includes:
- Opening animations and branding to make your videos instantly recognisable.
- Script and scene planning so you can deliver a clear, engaging message.
- Consulting Workshops to align Colossyan with your learning goals and set up for success.
- Branded Hype Video to generate excitement and encourage adoption of your new content.
Still stuck for ideas?
Let us turn your training into scenario-based learning!
This style of learning puts the viewer in a realistic situation and lets them explore different outcomes based on their choices, making the training more immersive and impactful. With avatars, these scenarios feel more human and relatable, but remain easy to update when policies, products, or processes change.
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Want to learn more?
If your business needs engaging, cost-effective video content that can evolve as quickly as your organisation does, we can help. Bring the warmth and connection of a real person, combined with the speed, flexibility, and scalability of AI.
With tools like this, you’re not just making videos, you’re making communication effortless.
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Faster, Smarter Translations: The AI and Human Formula
Ever wondered about the secret to faster, smarter translations?
If you’ve ever dined out abroad, you’ve probably found yourself relying on AI to quickly check menu items and order your dinner. It’s fast, convenient… and sometimes, a little risky. Because, with dodgy auto-translate, speed isn’t everything especially, if you hate prawns.
That’s exactly why, at GuyKat, we take a smarter approach to translation and localisation.
How we use AI and native speakers to localise learning faster
When it comes to translating training content, guesswork shouldn’t be part of the experience. Our approach blends AI for speed, native speakers for quality and an expert at GuyKat to put it all together for you.
At GuyKat, we’ve seen firsthand how AI can supercharge the localisation process, cutting weeks of turnaround time and unlocking scalable global rollouts. This got us talking about how to keep localisation fast without compromising on quality.
The GuyKat Localisation Process
We know translation isn’t just about swapping words from one language to another. It’s about meaning, tone, and context, especially when you’re training global teams. That’s why we’ve built a process that gets the best of both worlds.
Here’s how it works:
- Translate with AI: We use industry-leading tools to generate rapid first-pass translations. This means we can localise entire eLearning modules in minutes, not days. It’s scalable, efficient, and consistent.
- Check with Native Speakers: Then comes the important part, the human review. We work with skilled linguists who are not only fluent in your chosen language but, where required, also specialise in your subject matter, ensuring accurate, context-aware translations that resonate with your audience. So crucially, they could check whether your dinner suggestion accidentally includes prawns.
- Perfect Delivery: Once approved, unlike many translation providers, we implement the translations ourselves. That means we maintain the design integrity, interactivity, and functionality of your learning content so every learner, in every language, gets the same high-quality experience.
It’s a process that’s shaved weeks off our delivery timelines and made rolling out content to multiple markets smoother than ever.
The result? Faster, smarter translations.
Translated content in days, not months, and learners are getting content that feels native to them with no awkward phrasing or misunderstanding.
We handle the entire process end-to-end, no matter the type of training or language. The learning experience is fully replicated and accessible to each learner. Plus, no surprise prawns.
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💙 It doesn’t stop there… We’re proud to partner with some seriously smart tools including Colossyan that produces AI-generated training videos with avatars who can speak in multiple languages, voices, and tones. And FLOWSPARKS which creates modular content with one-click translations built in.
A Platform That Works for Everyone
How Nord Anglia Transformed Learning with GuyKat
Nord Anglia Education is a premium international school group with over 80 schools in 33 countries. They believe outstanding teachers make outstanding schools and that means investing heavily in the professional development of their staff.
To deliver a world-class education, Nord Anglia needed a scalable, intuitive learning platform that could grow alongside their global organisation. With a strong emphasis on collaboration and continuous development, they turned to Docebo and to GuyKat to make it happen.
What was the challenge?
As Nord Anglia Education grew, so did its library of onboarding and training content. But with so many users, from teachers to administrators, learners were struggling to find the resources relevant to them. Engagement was inconsistent, and the platform needed a smarter structure to support their goals.
Our Solution: Designed for Scale, Built for People
1. A Smarter Navigation System
We developed a custom drop-down mega menu using HTML and CSS, giving users the ability to filter content by school, topic, or type.
2. Custom Templates for Flexibility
We created branded, easy-to-edit widget templates, complete with detailed documentation and training. This meant any admin could maintain and update the platform independently.
3. A true social learning space
With a clear strategy to support Docebo Communities, we gave learners across continents the opportunity to connect, share knowledge, and support each other. This evolved from a content repository into a true social learning space.
What was the impact?
All these changes helped boost user engagement from just 20% to an incredible 94% post-launch.
The transformation has already delivered measurable impact, from time saved on admin tasks to significantly higher learner engagement. And this is just the beginning. With plans to integrate Docebo with their HR platform, Nord Anglia Education is preparing for a fully personalised learning journey aligned with career progression.
“GuyKat supports us to make our platform fly.”
— Vicky Wheeldon, Learning Experience Designer, Nord Anglia Education
Why did it work?
At the heart of this transformation was true collaboration. Nord Anglia’s team brought curiosity, clarity, and commitment to the project, working closely with us to create a platform that truly meets their learners’ needs.
“It’s been a wonderful partnership because we can talk openly about what we need and get to the bottom of it… they suggest what has worked elsewhere and support us.”
— Julia Gallois, Learning Experience Designer, Nord Anglia Education
We believe great learning experiences don’t happen by accident, they are designed with purpose. That’s why we’re proud of what we’ve achieved with Nord Anglia, and why we’re excited to keep helping organisations around the world make learning more accessible, effective, and engaging.
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Supercharge Your Docebo with a Learning Roadmap
Drive engagement, boost motivation, and bring structure to your learning, all within your Docebo.
If your learners are losing momentum or your admins are constantly chasing completions, it’s time to take a smarter approach. Our bespoke GuyKat Learning Roadmap is designed to help you get the most out of your Docebo platform. Transforming onboarding and training into an engaging, intuitive experience.
What Is the GuyKat Learning Roadmap?
The Learning Roadmap is a fully interactive visual journey hosted directly within your Docebo platform. No third-party tools. No hidden costs. Just a seamless, branded experience built around your learning goals.
It’s more than just a pretty interface. It’s a powerful strategic tool to help learners see where they’re going, track how far they’ve come, and stay motivated to reach the next milestone.
What You’ll Get
- Built in Docebo: Built right inside your platform, with no additional hosting fees or complexity.
- Custom designed: Give learners a clear view of their learning path, helping them stay focused and on track. Our Learning Roadmaps don’t just work well, they look good too. They’re built to reflect your brand, look like part of your business and host your content.
- With added expertise: We bring years of Docebo experience to the table, guiding you on how to tackle disengagement and streamline completion tracking.
- You’re in control: With simple documentation, you can easily manage content updates, course swaps, or tweaks without relying on external support.
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Why GuyKat?
At GuyKat, Docebo is all we do. We’ve spent over a decade specialising in Docebo, helping clients across industries build smarter, more engaging learning experiences.
Whether you’re onboarding new hires, rolling out compliance training, or launching leadership development, we can help you unlock the full potential of your platform.
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Let’s chat and create something your learners will actually want to follow.
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Behind the Scenes at GuyKat: Meet the Team
At GuyKat, we believe a great workplace starts with great people.
That’s why we recently turned the camera on our team...
We asked a few (chaotic) questions. We got a lot of unexpected answers. And we captured a snapshot of what makes our culture so unique.
This is an insight into unscripted life at GuyKat. From spontaneous impressions to questionable mouse mats and terrible jingles, this video is a celebration of the personalities that power our business.
Whether you're curious about what it’s like to work here, considering applying, or just need a laugh, we think you’ll enjoy it.
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