We are currently working on developing a way to track employee skill development. A large hurdle we are having is Skills in the platform empowers and is controlled by the user rather than from the manager. We do NOT want the user to be able to impact or select there skills. 

Our goal is to assign skills based on content or even external actions from the platform in order to identify individuals capable of supporting sites and projects. Additionally, we have a goal of this interacting with Workday and maybe even Dynamics in the future.

Has anyone been able to achieve employee skill tracking similar to our goal? What has worked for you? What did not work?