You can ask employees to analyze what skills they needed to complete their tasks in the past year. Watch for answers such as, "I found that my organizational skills really helped me do my job," and "My interpersonal skills contributed a lot to getting things done," and you will know you have a self-aware employee who is trying to make the workplace as productive as possible. If you hear, "I can't wait until I get a promotion so I can really use my best skills," or "A lot of my skills go to waste because people don't always appreciate what I can do," you probably have an employee who is not fully invested in their current positio