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See how your company is performing in regards to understanding project readiness, forecasting training needs, and planning your team’s development investments
Overview
This section explains how to use KnowCount’s built-in reporting and dashboards to understand project readiness, forecast training needs, and plan your team’s development investments. These reports combine skills data with customizable business assumptions to support informed, strategic decisions.
With KnowCount’s Reports and Dashboards, you can:
- Evaluate skills readiness levels across all projects
- Analyze skills gaps by level, person, and role
- Estimate the time and cost required to close gaps
- Adjust inputs like cost per training type and number of trainees
- Export results to Excel for further analysis or reporting
Readiness and Gap Summary by Project
To see readiness scores and skills gaps for each project:
- Navigate to the Reports section.
- Open the Skills Gaps Report for All Projects.
- You’ll see for each project:
- Skills Readiness Level (% of required skills already covered)
- Total number of skill gaps
- Breakdown by gap level:
- Level 1 = fundamental gaps
- Level 2 = intermediate
- Level 3 = advanced
This high-level view helps you identify which projects are most at risk and which are ready to begin.
To plan your training strategy for each project, you’ll see:
| Metric | Description |
|---|---|
| Skill Gap (L1/L2/L3) | Number of skill gaps to close at 65%, 80%, or 90% readiness |
| Time (L1/L2/L3) | Estimated training days needed |
| Cost (L1/L2/L3) | Total training cost for each readiness target |
This allows you to compare:
- What it would take to bring the team to basic, solid, or full readiness
- The time and budget tradeoffs of going beyond the minimum
🛈 All calculations are automatic and based on the latest skills assessment and project data.
Total Investment Summary
At the bottom of the Training Cost and Time report, you’ll find an automatic summary:
| Metric | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Total Time | Aggregate training time required for all projects |
| Total Cost | Combined cost of all planned training |
| Duration (days) | Total number of calendar days to run training |
| Time to apply readiness targets | Days needed to reach 65%, 80%, or 90% readiness across your portfolio |
This view helps HR, Finance, and Leadership teams plan resourcing and align budget with projected delivery timelines.
Customize Cost and Effort Assumptions
Administrators can configure key training assumptions to ensure accurate forecasting.
To adjust these:
- Go to Admin → Report Settings
- Set values for:
- Coefficient of overlapping work/study (e.g., 50%)
- Days per skill gap per person (e.g., 11)
- Avg. cost per training day
- Cost of internal training per day
- Cost of online training per day
- Cost of on-site training per day
- Average number of trainees per session
These inputs control all readiness, cost, and time estimates across projects.
Exporting Reports
To share or analyze reports further:
- Click Export to Excel on any report
- Select the desired format (CSV or Excel)
- Open the file in your preferred tool
You can customize charts, perform custom filtering, or embed them in internal documentation.
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