What is meant by skills matrix for your team work?

Matching available human skills to the planned tasks.

Normally it is used to map available skills in a project team, it can be useful to use it when necessary regardless of skill owner's current position. You save money and guarantee someone from inside who knows your business culture will do the job.

skills matrix used to assessment the team to know the create the training plan for the team.

Skills Development

Encouragement

The ability to increase the thinking and planning and development

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A Skills matrix is a tool used to assess training needs, also known as a competency framework. It is a table that displays all tasks and skills of individuals in an area or team; it displays all current team members and current competency/ability levels for each task.

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The Skill matrix is a grid where you can place people ( for example a team of workers ) in a3x3 grid depending on their skill set and their attitude to work. People with low skill

Skills Matrix are a consistent way to find range of capabilities that each of your team team member has, and to be able to deploy that attributes to work together to achieve any given set of objectives

It is a Tool which is used to Plan Human Resources for a particular Activity in a project. The Skill Matrix is used to plan, assess and monitor the avaibality of the manpower required for completing the specific tasks within the schedule and cost and is very useful for Activities which are on the Critical Path. 

Skills matrix as what others have said is to have a basis on what current talent resource a leader have and map it accordingly to that project for better efficiency and output. On software development, I've used it to have my members a better view on what their capabilities are then make sure that those skills in3 or6 mos have increments or progress...e.g. John Doe rated himself5 in responsive design1st quarter, then by2nd or3rd quarter John Doe should have an improvement, probably around8 being10 as an expert.

That is also one way to see what training needs your team should have specially if your team is involve in IT projects where it continously evolve and innovate introducing new things often.