How do your users' Revit skills measure up?

Image Screenshot Source: http://blogs.autodesk.com/revit/

I came across a great article this morning written by Jeff Hanson called Five must-know Revit skills for beginners. Autodesk's content experience team has developed some valuable video content on the five must-know Revit skills for beginners.

The article identifies these skills as:

• Trim and Extend Elements
• About the Crop Region
• Best Practices: Printing
• About Curtain Wall Panels (Add a Door to a Curtain Wall)
• Workflow: Select Fields for a Schedule

You can find the videos here.

 This brings me to a couple of salient questions:

• How does your users' measure up in terms of these skills?
• Should they be spending valuable company time watching these videos at all?
• Are there more relevant videos based on their skill gaps?
• What percentage of people on your team do need more training on these topics?
• What is the percentage skill gap amongst your users?

The only way to accurately and objectively answer the above questions is through a skills assessment process. Each user starts their Revit journey with a unique set of skills and knowledge, and a one-size-fits-all training policy is hardly ever appropriate.

Skills assessment and training go hand-in-hand - always!

So could skills testing help a company align the right training? Absolutely! KnowledgeSmart customers strategically use skill-based testing to identify learning needs, highlight areas of strength and expose areas of growth both before and after employment.

 So how did I create the visual above?

I analysed some of the KnowledgeSmart demo data based on question performance. I isolated all questions with training tags linked to the 5 skill areas the Autodesk article identifies and then sorted them in order of priority in Microsoft PowerBI. Based on my industry experience and the fact that these five skills were compiled from Autodesk customer data I agreed with Autodesk's findings that these Revit skills were important for users. Looking at my results data, it would appear that worksharing, view properties, detailing and worksets were priority areas for my group.

Next I can start thinking about slicing this data based on office location or perhaps based on some of the other valuable background data that KnowledgeSmart offers. But I will save that for another day.

Focus your time and efforts and assign training where it is needed most. Increase productivity and reduce project risk.