Once you've created a skill, you can view, edit, or delete it from the Skills screen, which has three tabs: Skills, where you manage individual skills; Taxonomy, where you build the category structure skills sit within; and Permissions, where you control who can create and manage skills across the platform.
Skill Details
In the Actions column of the All skills table, click the menu icon (⋮) next to a skill to View details, Edit, Convert to topic, or Delete it.
View details opens the Skill details panel, showing how the skill is being used across your organisation:
People: The number of learners with this skill linked to their profile.
Content: The number of content items tagged with this skill.
Skill boost: The number of content items configured to boost this skill on completion.
Goals: The number of goals that include this skill.
You can also click Delete skill or Edit skill at the bottom of this panel.
Edit a Skill
Edit (✎) opens the Edit skill screen, with Details and Translations tabs, and a side panel for Skill details and Collections. Under Skill details, you can update the skill's Name (up to 100 characters), Description (up to 500 characters), and other details. Thrive detects the skill's original language automatically – confirm it's correct before saving, since it can't be changed afterwards.
Click Save changes to confirm your edits, or Cancel to exit without saving.
Convert a Skill to a Topic
Convert a skill to a topic when it’s a broader subject area – such as company updates or onboarding – rather than a tracked ability. Converting keeps its existing links to content, people, and collections, so you don’t lose them by deleting the skill and recreating it as a topic.
In the Actions column, click the ellipsis menu (⋮) and select Convert to topic to change a skill into a topic. In the Convert skill to topic popup, click Convert to confirm: all content, people, and collections linked to the skill are updated to reflect the topic, and this can't be undone.
Delete a Skill
Click Delete (🗑) to remove a skill. The Delete this skill? popup lists exactly what will be affected – the number of user profiles, content items, and taxonomy categories the skill will be removed from – before you confirm. This action is permanent and can't be undone.
Bulk Actions
To manage several skills at once, select the checkbox next to each skill. You can then:
Convert: Converts the selected skills to topics. This updates all linked content, people, and collections, and can't be undone.
Merge: Combines duplicate or near-duplicate skills, such as differently cased or misspelled versions, into one tag, transferring all associations and settings.
Add to collection: Adds all selected skills to an existing collection.
Delete: Removes all selected skills in one action.
Export Skills
To export the full skill list as a CSV file, click Export CSV. This is useful for auditing your skills taxonomy or sharing it outside the platform.
Taxonomy Tab
The Taxonomy tab groups your skill tags into categories, so you can manage large skill libraries at scale. Build a hierarchy of categories, then nest skills and other categories beneath them. Categories can be nested up to three levels deep.
Note:
Only skills can be assigned to learners, scored, boosted, or added to profiles. Categories are for organising your skills – they can't be assigned, scored, or boosted.
Creating a Category
On the Taxonomy tab, click + Create category.
Enter a Name for the category. Category names must be unique across your Thrive platform.
(Optional) Under Nest under, select an existing category to nest this one beneath. A category must already exist to appear here.
(Optional) Disable Translate this category if you don't want Thrive to translate the category automatically. This is enabled by default.
Click Create category.
The new category appears in the Skills taxonomy table, showing its number of sub-categories, skills, and connections.
Managing a Category
Click the menu icon (⋮) in the Actions column on a category's row to:
Add category: Connect an Existing category to this one, or add a New category.
Add skill: Tag an Existing skill to this category, or add a New skill.
View details: Opens the Category details panel, showing the category's usage – its number of sub-categories, skills, and connections.
Edit category: Change the category's name, nesting, or translations.
Delete category: Permanently removes the category. This shows a warning first, listing the skills and content items linked to it – check this before you confirm.
Permissions Tab
The Permissions tab controls who can create and manage tags across the platform.
Restricting Tag Creation
Turn on Restrict learners from modifying or generating tags to limit tag creation and management to users with admin and tag manager permissions.
Managing Tag Managers
The Permissions tab lists your current tag managers, along with their last login.
To add a tag manager:
On the Permissions tab, click + Add tag manager.
In the Add tag managers modal, search for one or more users by name or email.
Click Add tag managers.
To remove a tag manager, click the bin icon (🗑) on their row.