Real Skills: Keeping it Real | Kia Pono te Tika assessment tool

The Real Skills assessment tool provides a quick and easy way for organisations, teams, groups, and individuals to assess knowledge and skills against Keeping it Real | Kia Pono te Tika. These are free workforce planning tools available to organisations, teams, groups, and individuals that work alongside tāngata whai ora and whānau experiencing addiction and/or mental health challenges.

The Real Skills assessment tool enables reflection and reporting on the strengths and development needs of individuals, teams, groups, and organisations.

Aggregated responses support Te Pou, Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora, and the wider sector in understanding the strengths of the workforce and identifying opportunities to develop targeted training and resources.

If you are accessing the tool as an individual, you can sign up directly and begin your assessments using the links below. Each assessment is designed to support different levels of development:

If you are part of an organisation, team, or group and would like access to the tool, please complete the request form.

These two short videos are for leaders and kaimahi working in the health sector in Aotearoa New Zealand who want to improve the way their teams work alongside tāngata whai ora and whānau experiencing addiction and/or mental health challenges.

The first video explains the Real Skills Assessment tool, why it is useful, how to access the tool and how to use it to support workforce planning and development.

The second video describes how one team has used the Real Skills assessment tool, the way leaders can engage with their team to ensure participation, the conversations the results can generate, and how they can use the results to support workforce development.

The tool is part of the Keeping it Real | Kia Pono te Tika framework and is relevant for everyone working in health.