Chapter 15. A Practical Guide to Building Your Ultimate Dashboard

What will your ultimate HR dashboard look like? I hope that it will look different from every other organization’s ultimate dashboard, since your organization’s priorities and service level with executives will be different from those of other organizations. But, how do you determine what it will look like? How do you convert the metrics into digestible, actionable data points that will assist the executive team in managing the organization? What are the usual pitfalls that you may encounter in building your reports and your dashboard? What practical advice do best-practitioners have for building your ultimate dashboard?