talenttrends Team Skills

See what your team can do.

talenttrends Team Skills gives managers, learning leads and HR business partners an overview of their team’s skills and proficiency levels — strengths, gaps, coverage — in four interactive visualisations, from the radar comparison of individuals to the team-wide skill heatmap. Live from the talenttrends Data Hub. No more thousand-row skill report, pivoted by hand in Excel.

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talenttrends Team Skills

The problem

The skill data is there. It’s just not usable.

Cor­ner­stone knows which skills your team has and at what lev­el. But the infor­ma­tion is scat­tered across user pro­files, capa­bil­i­ty mod­els and pro­fi­cien­cy reports. A man­ag­er who wants to know who is qual­i­fied for a new project, or where the com­pe­ten­cy gaps lie, exports a report and piv­ots it in Excel — or builds their own chart in PowerPoint.

Skill report to Excel, pivoted by hand

The route to a team overview goes via a thou­sand-row report that is then pre­pared man­u­al­ly. Out of date the day after export.

A new PowerPoint chart every quarter

Any­one who wants to visu­alise the com­pe­ten­cy pic­ture rebuilds it by hand every quar­ter — the same work, again and again.

Comparing two employees means reformatting

To place two skill pro­files side by side, data has to be re-sort­ed by hand. Too labo­ri­ous for a quick project staffing.

One fixed view, no drill-down

Stan­dard reports show a table — but they don’t let you zoom into a skill cat­e­go­ry, over­lay two pro­files or make struc­tur­al pat­terns visible.

What you see with it

Four visu­al­i­sa­tions, four ques­tions, one screen.

The same skill data, four angles — each tai­lored to a dif­fer­ent ques­tion. You select team and skills once, all four visu­al­i­sa­tions update together.

Profile comparison (radar)

Two or more employ­ees over­laid on the same skill axes. Strengths, gaps and com­ple­men­tar­i­ties at a glance. Best for one-to-one com­par­isons and the ques­tion of who com­ple­ments whom for a project.

Skill matrix (heatmap)

Employ­ees on one axis, skills on the oth­er, colour inten­si­ty shows the pro­fi­cien­cy lev­el. The most infor­ma­tion-dense view — whole teams of 50+ peo­ple on one screen. Best for team overview and gap detection.

Skill overview (treemap)

Pro­por­tion­al areas by com­pe­ten­cy mass per skill, with drill-down into skill cat­e­gories and capa­bil­i­ty mod­els. Best for under­stand­ing where com­pe­ten­cy den­si­ty sits — and where invest­ment is needed.

Skill flow (Sankey)

Flow dia­gram between team mem­bers, skill clus­ters and pro­fi­cien­cy lev­els. Makes struc­tur­al pat­terns vis­i­ble that tables hide — such as which skills depend on indi­vid­ual people.

How it works

Con­nect, embed, analyse

01

Connect

Team Skills con­nects to your Cor­ner­stone por­tal via the offi­cial Cor­ner­stone data inter­faces — either via direct API access or via the tal­ent­trends inte­gra­tion from the Cor­ner­stone Edge Mar­ket­place. Skill and com­pe­ten­cy data land in the tal­ent­trends Data Hub, which the visu­al­i­sa­tions work on.

02

Embed

Embed­ded in your Cor­ner­stone por­tal as a cus­tom page. Sin­gle sign-on via Cor­ner­stone itself — no sec­ond login. You deter­mine who may see Team Skills via the vis­i­bil­i­ty rules of the cus­tom page — typ­i­cal­ly man­agers and HR busi­ness partners.

03

Analyse

Select a team (direct and indi­rect reports), select skills (by indi­vid­ual skill, by sta­tus or by capa­bil­i­ty mod­el) — and nav­i­gate through the four visu­al­i­sa­tions. Every man­ag­er sees only their own team. Charts can be export­ed as an image for presentations.

The technology

Four charts, one engine, milliseconds

Team Skills runs in pro­duc­tive Cor­ner­stone projects where we take respon­si­bil­i­ty our­selves. This is what’s behind it.

Live from the Data Hub

Team Skills works against your repli­cat­ed data foun­da­tion, not against Cor­ner­stone live APIs. No API throt­tling, no rate lim­its, full per­for­mance even dur­ing Cor­ner­stone main­te­nance windows.

Read-only and parameterised

Fixed, ver­sioned queries that ship with the appli­ca­tion — not gen­er­at­ed at run­time, not change­able via the inter­face. Strict­ly read-only. Team Skills can­not change data under any circumstances.

Limited to the team

Every query is lim­it­ed to the direct and indi­rect reports of the logged-in man­ag­er. A man­ag­er sees their team — nev­er the whole organ­i­sa­tion. Enforced serv­er-side, not via the interface.

No AI of our own

Team Skills cal­cu­lates noth­ing in advance — it visu­alis­es your Cor­ner­stone data. Where Cor­ner­stone itself pro­vides AI esti­mates (pre­dict­ed pro­fi­cien­cy), Team Skills shows them for what they are: esti­mates, clear­ly recog­nis­able — and, if you wish, hid­den entirely.

Fast through one engine

All four visu­al­i­sa­tions ren­der from a sin­gle, proven engine — con­sis­tent inter­ac­tion (hov­er, zoom, pan, image export) across all chart types. Intel­li­gent caching of the rarely chang­ing cat­a­logues and tar­get­ed, team-lim­it­ed queries keep typ­i­cal views at milliseconds.

No third party, no data leak

The visu­al­i­sa­tions ren­der via a sin­gle authen­ti­cat­ed chan­nel — no third-par­ty CDN fetch­es, no teleme­try leaks, no trans­mis­sion of data to third-par­ty services.

Prerequisites

What you should coor­di­nate with us

Team Skills shows which skills indi­vid­ual team mem­bers have and at what lev­el — per­son­al data, close to per­for­mance assess­ment. A clean roll­out takes three points into account that we clar­i­fy togeth­er with you dur­ing onboarding.

Cornerstone setup

Team Skills needs data access to your Cor­ner­stone por­tal — either via acti­vat­ed Cor­ner­stone data inter­faces and a ded­i­cat­ed ser­vice account, or via the tal­ent­trends inte­gra­tion from the Cor­ner­stone Edge Mar­ket­place. The lat­ter is the faster route, because authen­ti­ca­tion and scope are pre-configured.

Team scope and audience

Every man­ag­er is restrict­ed from the out­set to their own team — direct and indi­rect reports, nev­er the whole organ­i­sa­tion. Via Cor­ner­stone’s vis­i­bil­i­ty rules, you addi­tion­al­ly nar­row down who may open Team Skills. And via the Data Hub con­fig­u­ra­tion, you deter­mine which columns appear at all — any­one who does­n’t want to show the pre­dict­ed pro­fi­cien­cy scores, for exam­ple, excludes that col­umn at repli­ca­tion level.

Co-determination, permitted use & estimates

In Ger­many, the intro­duc­tion typ­i­cal­ly trig­gers co-deter­mi­na­tion rights for the works coun­cil. The con­tract also stip­u­lates: Team Skills is a plan­ning and devel­op­ment aid, not an assess­ment sys­tem — com­pe­ten­cy data must not serve as a basis for per­son­nel deci­sions, no pro­fil­ing. Where Cor­ner­stone’s pre­dict­ed scores are shown, users must know that these are sta­tis­ti­cal esti­mates, not val­i­dat­ed assess­ments. We pro­vide the doc­u­men­ta­tion for the works coun­cil con­sul­ta­tion; you lead the conversation.

Deployment

Your data, your infrastructure

Team Skills runs on the tal­ent­trends plat­form and fol­lows its three host­ing paths — from our cloud to your own data centre.

SaaS with talessio

Ful­ly oper­at­ed by us. Fastest time-to-val­ue. Host­ing in Azure Ger­many West Cen­tral or with STACKIT — EU data res­i­den­cy, Schrems II-compliant.

In your cloud

Deploy­ment in your own cloud sub­scrip­tion — Azure, AWS, GCP or Open­Stack. Full con­trol over net­work and data residency.

On-Premises

Runs in your own data cen­tre. Max­i­mum con­trol. Your data nev­er leaves your infrastructure.

Details under Secu­ri­ty & Com­pli­ance. Details on host­ing choice, respon­si­bil­i­ties and migra­tion between mod­els can be found under Cloud & On-Premis­es.

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Interested?

See your team’s skills

30 min­utes, no oblig­a­tion. We’ll show you Team Skills against our sand­box envi­ron­ment or — if you wish — against a test con­nec­tion to your own Cor­ner­stone por­tal. And we’ll dis­cuss what a roll­out would look like in your context.

Arrange a call

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