This is a very imporatnat & critical task. First of all you have to identify the various skills ( Managerial / Behavirol & Technical skills) required for the various positions in your organization. Basing on the skill requirement you need to identify the existing skills of the employees, gap analysis need to be done, then work out action plan for skill enhancement. Once the employee acquires the requied skills then you should think about the other skills which are useful for the employee and the organization then work out action plan to train the employee in acquiring the other skills. Once the employee acquires the skills which are other than the skills requires to perform his present duties are called multi-skilling.
Multi skilling is very useful in growth of the organization and career planning of the employee. A very critical & crucial task for HR is retention of these multiskilled employees, their employability & expectations will be very high.
Part of multiskilling all activties like TNA, Training calendar, feed back etc are common. To complete the multiskilling activity the immediate superior & Heads of Departments co-operation, support & commitment is very critical hence lot of support of the top management required in initiating & completing this task.
Regards - kamesh