For HR managers & team leads
Templates for HR & Team Leads.
A curated set of 5 spreadsheets for the people who run people. Map your team's capability on a skills matrix, find what's missing with a gap analysis, and settle who owns what with a RACI matrix — your team's capability and risk on one grid, not buried in someone's head.
See your team's capability and risk on one grid
Most teams carry their capability in their heads — who can cover what, who's the only one who knows the process, where the next gap will open when someone leaves. A skills matrix puts that on a single grid you can actually act on: spot key-person risk, plan training, and make the case for a hire with evidence instead of a hunch.
Pair it with a gap analysis to see the distance between where the team is and where it needs to be, and a RACI matrix to make responsibilities unambiguous across a project or a reorg.
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Capability, gaps and responsibilities — on a grid
5 templates
A skills matrix, gap analysis and RACI matrix, in Excel and Google Sheets.
- $3.45 Excel
Skills Matrix - Excel
Teams rarely have a skills problem — they have a visibility problem. This excel skills matrix template scores your people and projects so the gap stops hiding.
- Human Resources
View details - $2.95 Excel
Gap Analysis - Excel
Most strategy decks describe goals. They skip the gap. This excel gap analysis template forces the conversation: current state, future state, gap, and the actions to close it.
- Project Management
View details - $2.95 Sheets
Gap Analysis - Google Sheets
Your last strategy review listed goals. Did it tell you what to fix first? This google sheets gap analysis template ranks every gap by priority and status with live charts.
- Project Management
View details - $3.45 Excel
RACI Matrix - Excel
A RACI chart isn't paperwork. It's how you spot the person you're about to burn out. Excel RACI matrix template with a live workload view per resource.
- Project Management
View details - $3.45 Sheets
RACI Matrix - Google Sheets
Is anyone on your team quietly drowning under the work? This google sheets raci matrix template doubles as a raci chart template with a live workload view.
- Project Management
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Ardent Workshop
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