Skills mapping for schools
that drives real staff development
Discover the skills across your school, MAT, or college through AI-powered conversations. Target CPD where it matters, build Ofsted-ready evidence, and use signposting to direct staff to the right development resources automatically.
Challenges facing school leaders
Schools and MATs face persistent challenges when it comes to understanding, developing, and evidencing staff skills across their workforce.
CPD budgets wasted on generic training
Without knowing the precise skills your staff already have, CPD budgets are spent on broad courses that duplicate existing knowledge. Schools need a teacher skills audit to invest training budgets wisely.
Ofsted expects evidence of staff development
Inspectors look for clear evidence that schools are investing in workforce development. Pulling that data together from spreadsheets, emails, and memory is time-consuming and unreliable.
Skills spread across departments are invisible
A maths teacher with data analysis expertise, a TA with counselling experience: these hidden skills sit across departments with no way to find or use them. MAT workforce planning becomes guesswork.
Education skills management, simplified
SkillDrill gives school leaders and MAT central teams the tools to map, track, and develop staff skills across every school and department.
Map teaching and support staff skills across your school or MAT
SkillDrill uses conversational AI to discover skills that spreadsheets and forms miss entirely. In 10 to 15 minutes, each staff member has a natural conversation that uncovers their full range of expertise, qualifications, and interests.
- Covers teachers, TAs, admin, site staff, and leadership
- Works across multiple schools in a MAT from a single dashboard
- Discovers hidden skills like mentoring, first aid, and digital literacy
- AI adapts questions based on each person's role and responses
Discover skills you didn't know your team had
AI conversations uncover far more skills than forms or spreadsheets
Target CPD investment where it will have the most impact
Stop spending on courses your staff do not need. SkillDrill shows you exactly where the gaps are, so school staff CPD tracking becomes a strategic advantage rather than a compliance exercise.
- Identify skill gaps at individual, department, and whole-school level
- Match internal expertise to training needs before buying external courses
- Enable peer-to-peer coaching by connecting staff with complementary skills
- Track how skills develop over time with repeat conversations
Discover existing expertise
Find staff who already have the skills you planned to train for
Prioritise by gap analysis
Focus budget on the areas with the widest skill shortfalls
Enable internal sharing
Connect experienced staff with colleagues who need development
Build evidence for Ofsted on workforce development
SkillDrill creates a living record of your workforce's skills and development over time. When inspectors ask about staff development evidence, you have clear, structured data ready to share.
- Demonstrate a clear strategy for workforce development
- Show how CPD decisions are driven by evidence, not guesswork
- Track skills growth over time with repeat AI conversations
- Export reports and visualisations for inspection documentation
Workforce skills baseline
Complete map of current capabilities across all staff
Evidence-based CPD decisions
Clear link between identified gaps and training actions
Skills growth over time
Longitudinal data showing development progress
Exportable reports
Ready-to-share documentation for inspection day
Who uses SkillDrill in education?
From a single primary school to a large multi-academy trust, SkillDrill scales to fit your needs.
Individual Schools
Primary and secondary schools looking to understand their staff's full range of skills and plan CPD effectively.
Multi-Academy Trusts
Central teams managing workforce planning across multiple schools, with cross-trust visibility and MAT-wide reporting.
FE Colleges
Further education colleges mapping vocational and academic staff skills to align with curriculum delivery and industry needs.
Local Authority Education Teams
LA teams supporting maintained schools with workforce development, skills auditing, and strategic planning across their area.
Direct people to the right resources
After each conversation, SkillDrill shows relevant training links, support contacts, or next steps based on what was discussed. Configure rules to match skills, keywords, or welfare concerns to the right resources.
Keep profiles fresh automatically
Set review intervals per question set. SkillDrill reminds people when a catch-up is due and carries forward their previous answers so they only update what has changed. New skills and qualifications are captured automatically.
How it works
Three simple steps to map skills across your school or trust. No complex setup, no IT support needed.
Set up your school
Create your account, add departments and schools, and invite staff. SkillDrill handles the rest: no training needed for participants.
Staff have AI conversations
Each staff member has a 10 to 15 minute natural conversation with the AI. It adapts to their role, asking about teaching skills, pastoral experience, qualifications, and more.
Explore and act on results
View your interactive skills map, identify gaps, find hidden expertise, and make data-driven decisions about CPD, staffing, and development.
Start mapping skills across your school today
Join schools and MATs using SkillDrill to make smarter CPD decisions, build Ofsted-ready evidence, and unlock the hidden potential of their workforce.
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