Skills are the abilities you're building as you learn – the capabilities you want to grow for your role, your development, and your career. When you choose the skills you want to develop, Thrive shows you more of the content that helps you grow them. That keeps your learning relevant to where you want to go.
Skills work alongside topics, which cover the broader subjects and interests you want to follow. Together, they shape what Thrive recommends and how easily you can find the content that matters to you.
Skills and Topics
Both skills and topics are tags applied to content, and both make content easier to discover – but they serve different parts of your learning.
Skills: The specific abilities you want to develop or improve, such as effective communication, leadership, or Excel. Skills are tied to your professional growth, and the learning you complete against them is tracked.
Topics: The broader areas you want to explore or stay informed about, such as onboarding, wellbeing, or your organisation's products. Topics are marked with a hash symbol (#), and you can follow the ones that interest you.
When you develop a skill, content tagged with it becomes easier to find – on your Home and Explore screens, in Learn, and in your search results. When you follow a topic, related content appears in the relevant areas of your Home screen.
Examples
Category | Examples | Description |
|---|---|---|
Skills | Effective communication, Leadership, Presentation delivery, UX design, Excel, Conflict resolution | Specific abilities you develop and improve through learning and practice |
Topics | Onboarding, Our products, Mental wellbeing, Company updates, Senior leadership | Broader areas of interest that help you discover and follow content |
Choosing the Skills You Want to Develop
You first choose the skills and interests you care about when you set up your profile. You can update them at any time from the Skills screen. Go to Learn > Skills in the Thrive menu, then add the skills you want to focus on next.
Your manager or your role may also add skills to your profile – for example, the core skills expected for your job. These appear alongside the skills you've chosen yourself.
Viewing Your Skills
To see all your skills and their related learning:
From the Thrive Menu, go to Learn > Skills.
Your skills appear as cards, each showing the skill name and its status, such as whether it's verified and your current and target levels.Note:
Use the view toggle at the top left to switch between card and list views.
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Select a skill to open it.
You'll see any learning assigned to you for that skill, followed by suggested content tagged with the skill that you can explore. If nothing's assigned yet, you'll see a prompt to start with the suggested learning.