Measuring and managing thesuccess of employeesis one of HR’s most important roles. However, there’s a lot of data to keep track of, and this can often be overwhelming. You can, of course, use a standard HR dashboard for this. However, you’ll get far more benefits from using acustom dashboard that has been tailored to the specific needs of your business. A comprehensive HRIS with apersonalized dashboardcan help you keeptrack of your most important data points. It provides you with instant access to youressential KPIsso that you can continuouslyenhance your employee metrics and improve your ROI.
Factorial’s HRIS has included a company dashboard for some time now. This dashboardaggregates data from all your people management processes so that you have instant and intuitive access to all the insights you need to grow your business.
But why stop there?
At Factorial, we arecontinuously working to enhance our products so that our customers get the most from our platform. As a result, we are now very excited to announcethe launch of our new and improved custom dashboard!
Whether you’re an existing customer, or you’re keen to find out what a custom dashboard is and how it can help your business, you’ve come to the right place. Read on to find outeverything you need to know about our exciting new custom dashboard features.
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Why have a company dashboard?
AnHR dashboardis a digital tool that you can use tocentralize and manage all your employee KPIs. HR teams use all this information tomake strategic data-driven decisions that help the company grow. This includes enhancing employee performance and development; improving retention and turnover levels; optimizing hiring, onboarding and offboarding processes; and upgrading the overall employee experience. You can also use a company dashboard togenerate valuable HR reportsthat enable you to monitor your progress in all these key areas of your business.
Think of a company dashboard as acontrol panel that provides you access to your most important employee data points so that you can steer your company to success. The biggest benefit of using one is that all your most important data iscentralizedand can beeasily accessed by all members of your team.
There are other benefits, too:
- Increased flexibility.
- Enhanced internal communication.
- Tools for identifying patterns and trends in your business so that you can address issues before they become a problem.
- Streamlined workflows and improved productivity.
- Access to detailed analytics and reporting features.
- The ability to make smarter, data-driven decisions that grow your business and save you money.
Above all, when you look for a company dashboard, you need to make sure that it isvisual and interactive. Data should beeasy to read and understandand consist of metrics thatrelate to the specific needs of your business.
This is where using acustom dashboardcan help.
Withcustomizable HR software, you can be sure that your team has access to the specific KPIs that you actually need.
Why are custom dashboard features important?
With a custom dashboard, you get all these benefits and so many more. Most importantly, you cantailor the KPIs included in your personalized dashboard in line with your business objectives. That way, yourdashboard only displays the metrics that are important to you. This makes it much easier to keep track of your progress in all areas of effective people management.
However, before you invest in a custom dashboard, it’s important toconsider which dashboard features you will have access to. The features offered by a solution will determine thelevel of control that you have over dashboard customization and the data you can access.
Let’s take a look at some of the reasonswhy custom dashboard features are so importantin a bit more detail.
Prevent information overload
People management involves keeping track of a lot of data. You need to monitor and manage employee performance; develop employee skills; keep track of time and attendance; manage payroll and leave; and have access toclear and measurable benchmarks to ensure that employees are continuously improving and achieving their goals. You also need to keep track of your diversity metrics; monitor retention levels; ensure your policies are legally compliant; implement processes for onboarding and offboarding employees; and work on measures toimprove the overall employee experience. And countless other processes and workflows.
That’s a lot of information.
Acustom dashboardcan help youstreamline all this data and prevent information overload. Instead of using a crowded dashboard with an abundance of data points that might not even be relevant to your needs, you cantailor your personalized dashboard to the information that you need instant access to on a regular basis. That way, you can getquick answers when you need themand you won’t get lost in a sea of KPIs every time you log in. Instead, you can simply select the widget that corresponds to what you need andinstantly access all the insights that you are looking for. This helps youmake better data-driven decisionswithout wasting valuable time (or giving yourself a headache).
Make sure that the product you choose includesfeatures for customizing the data displayed through your dashboard. This includes the ability toadd, edit, and remove customized widgetsso that you can adapt the design of your dashboard in line with your changing needs. That way, you can easily locate what you need every time you log in.
Make sure visible data is relevant
It’s also important to make sure that the custom dashboard that you choose includesfeatures for ensuring that displayed data is visible and relevant.
A visually appealing personalized dashboard must beeasy to navigate, and data should beclear and transparent. It should highlight theKPIs that are most important to youso that your team can find what they need at all times. It should includegraphs and other graphicsso that you can visualize your progress easily and there is no risk of confusion. And, most importantly, data needs to berelevant and informative. All this will help you understand the bigger picture so that you don’t miss any important patterns that might negatively impact your business.
Ultimately,data is only useful if it is well explained and expressed in the right context. If information is overly complicated or unrelated, then will create confusion and misunderstandings within your team. That’s why it’s so important that youpick a product with visually appealing and easy-to-understand data formats. The key to success is keeping your dashboardstreamlined and simple. You need everyone on your team to understand exactly what they are looking at each time they search for data.
Prioritize the right tasks
Finally, when you search for a custom dashboard,make sure you pick a solution with features that enable you to prioritize the tasks that are important to youat any given moment. This will obviously change as your business evolves, so you need a custom dashboard that lets youmodify data in line with your changing priorities.
Consider the following when you build your custom dashboard:
- Which areas of your business are you trying to improve?
- Are there any problems that you need to address? (For example, retention levels or the employee experience)
- Which KPIs have the biggest impact on your overall business results?
- What data do you need to track to enhance your business processes?
- What are your top 5 HR metrics right now in terms of priorities?
It’s also a good idea tocollect regular feedback from your HR teamto find out what they would like to see on the dashboard or if any displayed data is no longer relevant. Provided you have access to the necessary features, you can then adapt your custom dashboard accordingly. Bykeeping your dashboard continuously updated in line with your prioritiesyou can ensure you get the most from your solution now and in the future.
That way, you can:
- Prioritize the right KPIs for your company.
- Generate relevant HR reports at the click of a button.
- Design customized visuals that your team can easily understand.
- Access actionable and relevant insights at a glance.
- Identify trends and patterns that help you determine which areas of your business you need to prioritize right now.
Factorial’s new personalized dashboard features
With Factorial’s HR software solution, you cancreate custom dashboards and HR reports in line with the specific needs of your business. Our dashboards leverage all the data collected from each of your HR processes so that you caneasily measure and track your KPIs and make strategic decisions based on hard data.
So, what makes our solution so unique?
For one thing, you can createcustomized dashboards for different processes within your HR department.
You can create a:
- Performance management custom dashboard.
- Training and development custom dashboard.
- Hiring custom dashboard.
- Diversity custom dashboard.
- Leave management custom dashboard.
- Retention custom dashboard.
Moreover, you cantailor your dashboards so that they display the specific KPIs that you want to keep a close eye on. You can also createcustom reportsstraight from your dashboards so that you can share relevant data with your team.
Best of all, we have recently made a number of improvements to our HRIS to help our customers get the most from our platform. For instance, we have just launched a series ofnew personalized dashboard features that make your dashboards even more powerful!
Let’s take a look at some of these new features to see how you can benefit from them.
View/Edit mode
Our new custom dashboard includes two different modes:View ModeandEdit Mode.
You will probably recognize View Mode as this is what our customers have had access to until now. With this mode,users can interact with all the data displayed through the various widgets configured on their dashboard.
Edit Mode isone of our new, updated features. With this feature,admins and managers can customize the look and feel of the dashboard. They can configurewhich widgets are includedand what information is displayed to users. They can alsomove these widgets around, resize them, remove them, or add new widgets to the dashboard.
All this makes it much easier to design a custom dashboard that meets your specific business objectives.
Resizing and moving (sorting) widgets
As we just mentioned, with our new custom dashboard features, you can nowresize your displayed widgets and move them around. Users can easilydrag and rearrangetheir widgets through Edit Mode according to their preferences. They can also change their visibility by making themlarger or smaller, depending on their needs. That way, you can ensure that your prioritized KPIs are the first things you see when you access your dashboard.
Removing widgets
Priorities change and the KPIs that matter most to you one day might be less important in the future. That’s why we now offer customers the ability toremove widgets once they no longer need to access certain KPIs from their dashboards. And, if your needs change again, you caneasily add them back. You can also tag certain widgets as “static” so that they remain in place at all times and there’s no option to remove them.
Adding new widgets
Users can now easilycustomize their own dashboards and add new widgets that are available to them. They canadd, delete, or move widgets to customize their personalized dashboard layout. This allows them to tailor their homepage to include the data that is most important to them; the data that enables them to succeed in their role.
Restore version
Our custom dashboard now also includes a new feature that enables users torestore the automatically generated version of their dashboard. That way, they can revert to previous settings if needed or reverse any changes that might have been made in error.
Widgets configuration
Finally, users are now able toconfigure the settings of each widget displayed on their custom dashboard. Depending on the configuration, the information presented is also customizable for each user. That way, users can personalize their widgets according to their specific needs.
An HR solution tailored to your business needs
A company’s biggest asset is its employees. They form the backbone of your organization andthe way they perform and develop has a direct impact on the growth of your business. That’s why it’s so important to use thebest possible tools and digital solutions to manage your workforce. But it’s not enough to rely on basic, generic tools for this: companies need solutions that specifically work for them.
That’s whythe age of the “one size fits all” platform is over.
Companies have their own specific objectives and requirements, and they need access totools that can accommodate their business needs. Otherwise, you will waste valuable time and resources on processes that can beeasily streamlined and automated with the right product.
Our latest custom dashboard features have been designed with this in mind.
At Factorial,we understand that every company is different. We know thatour customers need a solution that is tailored to their evolving business needs. We appreciate that these needs change over time andbusinesses need access to features that help them adapt their tools whenever needed. That’s why we are handing overfull controlto our customers.
With our custom dashboards, you candesign a tool that works for you and your team. You will have easy access toall the data you need to continuously improve your people management processes. That way, you will understand exactly what you need to do to build ahappy, productive, and engaged workforce.
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