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Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Concept: Trends, Gaps, Top Drivers, and Detailed Data

Concept: Trends, Gaps, Top Drivers, and Detailed Data

You can click
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on a KPI or story card to view a metric as it changed over time, underlying drivers, and additional details about it.

Trends and Gaps

A trend in People Analytics demonstrates how a metric changed over time. The amount of data history you have in People Analytics determines the number of months used for comparison in the trend. Example: Reviewing performance in Canada over the period of 12 months.
Trend stories compare the current performance trend to the performance trend at the beginning of the historical period.
Gap stories compare the current performance trend with the performance of an internal peer group. Example: Comparing current performance in Canada to the current performance of the Americas.

Top Drivers

The storyteller engine surfaces top drivers of a metric by slicing the metric by different dimensions. Examples: Ethnicity, generation, location, or management level.
The Top Drivers tab on a story card displays dimensions:
  • Contributing to the performance gap in the story.
  • Driving the story in the opposite direction.
Tables underneath the dimensions display personalized insights for each top driver, using conversational language to convey key information. Example: Female Representation in this
Tenure Category
is
64.3%
— which is
18.7
percentage points above
Cost Center 1
. Top drivers display by the severity of their impact on the story: from High to Low.
The change in metric, population size, and historic trend (for trend business questions) determine the impact level.
High
impact labels indicate areas of the organization where there might be an immediate need for focus.
Decision makers can focus on a few of the biggest drivers to improve performance of the metric as that can even influence other, not so impactful drivers.
Example: In the last 12 months, female representation in your organization’s level 4 has increased by 18.8 percentage points.
Which drivers are contributing to higher Female Diversity Trend in Org Level 4?
Top drivers (Dimension: Value)
Impact level (High, Medium, Low)
Ethnicity: Hispanic
High impact
Location: Atlanta
Medium
Management level: 9 manager
Low
Location: New York City Campus
Low
Each top driver tab includes detailed information on the metric composition.
Which areas scored lower for Female Diversity Trend in Org Level 4?
Top drivers (Dimension: Value)
Impact level (High, Medium, Low)
Location: New York
Medium
Job Level: Team Players 2
Low
Each top driver tab includes detailed information on the metric composition.

Detailed Data

The
Detailed Data
tab is designed to be a preview and displays the first 100 rows of data with the possibility of restricting the list to an individual month. You can export the data to a discovery board to view all rows of data and perform further analysis.