We are thrilled that you have chosen to use MuchSkills for your team or organisation. We understand that you may have several questions about our solution and this guide should have all the answers you need. If you have any further questions or need any help at all, please write to us at support@muchskills.com.
MuchSkills’ perspective on employee engagement is guided by the findings of global analytics company Gallup, which has 80+ years of data collection experience as well as 35 million global respondents in its employee engagement database, making it a global leader in the employee engagement movement.
The core of their findings is this: Let employees do what they do best. Match their skills and interests to their roles to see increased engagement, productivity, sales, and profitability.
MuchSkills is an efficient way to map the skills of an entire team or organization. It is designed to help team leaders and the organisational leadership to identify employee strengths and interests so that employees can be paired with the most suitable projects and roles. By creating a workplace where each person is encouraged to do what they do best, organisations will increase employee engagement, productivity and more.
For an overview of MuchSkills:
Before asking everyone in your team or organisation to log in to MuchSkills, you must first inform them about how it works. Below is a suggestion of what you can say in an email to your colleagues. You can also download a ready to go presentation that you can share with your team informing them about MuchSkills. Download presentation.
Hello colleagues,
We have decided to start using a new tool, MuchSkills, to help us identify and focus on our strengths at work.
I will invite you to log in to MuchSkills to create a skills profile. Setting it up should take you just a few minutes. Once you are done, you will have a beautifully visualised skills profile that highlights your Job Focus (what you are good at and what gives you energy), Soft Skills, and Technical Skills. You can then share this with your colleagues.
Showcase your superpowers and get to know the strengths of your colleagues – Once everyone has built their skills profile and shared it, you will be able to view it. Similarly, your colleagues will also be able to see your visualised profile – what you’ve listed as your key skills and strengths, and what energises you.
Easily search for superpowers in your team or organisation – Once all of you have your own MuchSkills profiles, it will be easy for everyone to find colleagues who possess specific skills. Simply log in to MuchSkills, click on ‘TEAM’, type in the skill you are looking for in the search field and press ‘enter’. You will see matching skills. Click on a skill and you will get a list of all colleagues who possess that skill.
Create skills-based project teams – If you have a new project for which you need many different skills, log in to MuchSkills and click on ‘PROJECT’. Then create a project and list the skills you need for it. The MuchSkills software will then suggest to you the names of colleagues with those specific skills.
Want to know more about MuchSkills? - You can visit their website or watch a short 2-min video explaining how it works.
If you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact me.
In MuchSkills, click on your profile image in the top right corner and click on ‘Create a team’.
Enter a team name and set a unique URL. A team can be anything – your best friends, a creative workgroup, a team at work, or an entire organization. When you are done click ‘next’.
Now it's time to invite people to join the team. In the space provided, simply fill in the emails of those you want on the team and send out the invitations. Alternatively, just create an ‘invite’ link and share it with them.
The ‘invite’ link is something you can easily share via email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, or any other solution you use to communicate with your colleagues.
Sending the invitations using email comes with one major advantage. It allows you to track whoever has joined MuchSkills and created a profile. After you send out your invitations by email, click on ‘TEAM’ in the top menu and then click on ‘Members’. This will give you an overview of everyone who has joined and any pending invitations.
Watch the videos below to learn how to use MuchSkills effectively. It will show you how to add skills and modify your profile, search for skills, create a skills-based project, set your availability, and more.
MuchSkills is designed to help team leaders increase employee engagement. Below is a suggestion for the message you can send all team leaders about how they can use MuchSkills most effectively.
Hello Team Leaders,
It’s great to see how our company skills pool is visualized on MuchSkills. If you have not seen it yet, log in and click on ‘TEAM’ in the top menu to view it.
There are many interesting details in this overview. I recommend that you read the MuchSkills FAQs and especially watch the overview videos in the section MuchSkills 101 to understand how to use this tool most effectively.
Briefly, here’s how MuchSkills can help you manage your team efficiently.
Single view of team’s skills – Get insights into your team's soft skills, job interests and even their technical skills – in a single view.
Build engaged teams – Understand what an individual is interested in – what energises them – so that you can help them focus on their strengths and build a more productive, engaged and happier team.
Plan projects easily – One of the best things about MuchSkills is that it is now easy to find colleagues with specific skills. Log in to MuchSkills, click on ‘TEAM’ in the top menu, and search for a skill using the search field. Once you find it, click on the skill bubble to see everyone in the team/organisation who has that skill.
Plan training and recruitment – Easily assess if your team has the skills to deliver the desired results, identify areas of improvement and plan future recruitments accordingly. If you have any questions I am happy to help.
All the best
MuchSkills is designed to help team leaders increase employee engagement. We have designed a set of playbooks to help individuals and teams grow more effectively. You will find the playbooks further down on this page. Below is a suggestion for the message you can send all team leaders regarding these Playbooks.
Hello Team Leaders,
It’s great to see how our company skills pool is visualized on MuchSkills. If you have not seen it yet, log in and click on ‘TEAM’ in the top menu to view it.
Understanding the visuals There are many interesting details in the overview. I recommend that you read the MuchSkills FAQs and also watch this overview video to understand all the things you can do with MuchSkills.
Important: Instructions for one-on-ones As part of our efforts towards increasing employee engagement, it would be great if you can implement MuchSkills’ playbook on how to conduct one-on-ones for an employee’s personal and professional growth. We recommend that all team managers hold quarterly meetings for this purpose.
MuchSkills also has a playbook on conducting regular check-ins to keep track of progress on projects and assigned tasks. We recommend that these are held bi-weekly. You will find all the playbooks and instructions here.
If you have any questions I am happy to help.
All the best
We have designed a set of playbooks to help individuals and teams grow more effectively. You will find the playbooks further down on this page. Below is a suggestion for the message you can send all team leaders regarding these Playbooks.
Hello Team Leaders,
We hope that you and your teams have familiarised yourselves with MuchSkills by now. Isn’t it exciting to view your team’s skills pool on one page?
To understand how to use MuchSkills most effectively, I recommend that you read the MuchSkills FAQs and especially watch the overview videos in the section MuchSkills 101 if you haven’t already.
Important: Instructions for one-on-ones As part of our efforts towards increasing employee engagement, it would be great if you can implement MuchSkills’ playbook on how to conduct one-on-ones for an employee’s personal and professional growth. We recommend that all team managers hold quarterly meetings for this purpose.
MuchSkills also has a playbook on conducting regular check-ins to keep track of progress on projects and assigned tasks. We recommend that these are held bi-weekly.
You will find all the playbooks and instructions here.
If you have any questions I am happy to help.
All the best
To read the MuchSkills FAQs click here.
One-on-one meetings help managers understand what drives their direct reports and how they want to grow professionally. When held consistently, such meetings help build trust and allow teams to benefit from shared context. This boosts employee engagement as well as productivity. To use this Playbook click here.
As many of us know, check-ins are weekly one-on-one meetings between managers and direct reports that focus on progress made on work such as projects and assigned tasks. What not so many of us know is that holding regular check-ins helps increase employee engagement, productivity and reduces employee turnover, which is great for the organisation. To use this Playbook click here.
You can see our full pricing page here. To summarize, we have made it free for small teams. If you want to use MuchSkills for your entire organization please contact support@muchskills.com and we will assist you with pricing.
The team plan is free for small teams and includes usage of software and chat support. In the enterprise plan, there are no limitations to usage, you get priority phone support and custom integrations and billing.
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