The Training Matrix: Who Can Do What, and Where One Absence Stops the Shop

Score every skill and every person 0–3 (can't / with help / solo / can teach). Coverage counts the 2s and up — "watched Dana do it once" covers nothing. The grid flags what one absence breaks: the sample finds three SINGLE POINTs and one skill nobody runs at working level.

How it works

• The Matrix — 10 skills × your people. SINGLE POINT and NOBODY flags compute themselves; the breadth row shows whose column is thinnest and who carries the shop
• The Coverage Math — three exposures × four exposed weeks × $1,150 of weekly scramble = $13,800 a year of quiet risk, against $2,448 of paired training: a 5.6× return on drawing the grid
• The Program — pick three gaps a quarter; pair mentor and trainee ON the schedule; level up by doing (three solo reps with declining supervision); the teach-back test; NOBODY rows jump the queue — they're outages with a date you don't know yet; refresh quarterly, hire by column

Built for

Any team small enough that skills live in people instead of departments: shops · restaurants · offices · crews · practices. Also the fairest raise conversation in the building — breadth is visible, and so is who carries it.

What you get

One .xlsx file, four tabs, instant download. Excel, Google Sheets, Apple Numbers, LibreOffice. No macros, no subscription. Skills, people, levels and rates all yours.