15Five's HR Outcomes Dashboard is your command center for strategic HR, designed to help you measure what matters most and take action where it counts. By surfacing real-time insights across Engagement, Performance, and Turnover, the dashboard empowers HR leaders to make data-informed decisions that drive measurable business impact.
This article walks you through the Dashboard tab—the heart of the HR Outcomes Dashboard—where you’ll find high-level metrics, filtering options, and data insights to help you identify trends, diagnose issues, and prioritize areas for strategic action.
This article contains the following sections:
- Dashboard Tab Overview 🌐
- How to Use the Dashboard Tab 👩💻
- Taking Action from the Dashboard 🚀
- Bringing it All Together: The HR Outcomes Flywheel 🔄
- Related Articles 📖
Access and availability
⛔️ Required access to the HR Outcomes Dashboard.
👥 This article is relevant to roles and individuals assigned access to the HR Outcomes Dashboard.
📦 This feature is available in the Total Platform pricing package.
Note
This article focuses specifically on the Dashboard tab. You can access links for articles walking through the Manager Effectiveness and Action Plans tabs in the "Related Articles" section of this article.
Dashboard Tab Overview 🌐
The Dashboard tab—accessible by clicking Outcomes Dashboard in 15Five's main, left-hand navigation—provides a high-level summary of your organization’s overall health. It brings together critical data across Engagement, Performance, and Turnover to spotlight trends, identify areas of concern, and connect your people metrics to strategic priorities.
From this tab, you can...
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📊 View company-wide scores for Engagement, Performance, and Turnover
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🔍 Apply filters to narrow results by group, attribute, or outcome segment
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📈 Analyze trends with visual data insights
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🤖 Access AI-generated Action Plans tailored to your organization's needs
What it Measures: HR Outcomes
The Dashboard tab helps you track the three core outcomes that matter most to business success: Engagement, Performance, and Turnover. These outcomes form the foundation of strategic HR because they reflect how your people feel, perform, and stay with your organization. When analyzed together, they tell a powerful story about workforce health and help you align people strategy with business outcomes.
Use the dropdowns below to learn more about what each of these outcomes means, how it's measured, and why it matters.
Engagement is the emotional commitment and passion that an employee has toward their work and their employer. It's demonstrated by their willingness to put in discretionary effort—going above and beyond their basic job requirements to help the organization succeed.
In the dashboard
Engagement is measured through employee surveys (Engagement Campaigns or Pulse Check-ins) that assess how employees feel about their role, their manager, their growth opportunities, and the company's direction. Learn more →
Why it matters
Engaged employees are more productive, innovative, and loyal. They’re the ones who go the extra mile, advocate for the company, and contribute to a positive culture. On the flip side, disengagement can be an early warning sign of burnout, turnover, or performance issues.
Performance represents how employees are evaluated in your organization’s formal review processes. It reflects the extent to which individuals meet or exceed expectations, contribute to business goals, and demonstrate role-specific competencies or behaviors.
In the dashboard
Performance designations are derived from review cycle ratings and completion of objectives (OKRs). You can analyze how performance trends vary across teams, departments, tenure, or demographics. Learn more →
Why it matters
High-performing teams drive business results. Performance data helps you identify top talent, underperformance risks, and opportunities for development or recognition.
Turnover measures the rate at which employees leave your organization.
In the dashboard
The Turnover tile is populated based on termination data, which you can add to 15Five via an HRIS or bulk import CSV. You can analyze how turnover is trending from month to month.
Why it matters
Turnover affects productivity, morale, and costs. High or uneven turnover rates often signal cultural, leadership, or workload issues that need intervention.
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Want to understand why Engagement, Performance, and Turnover are the outcomes that matter most? Check out our HR Outcomes Playbook to learn how focusing on these three areas drives strategic impact and business success.
Populating Your Dashboard
The HR Outcomes Dashboard is powered by data from 15Five—from things like running engagement surveys, holding performance reviews, and connecting your HRIS. Learn how to populate the HR Outcomes Dashboard with data →
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The more recent and complete your data, the more accurate and actionable your dashboard insights will be. Make sure you're running regular assessments and keeping employee data up to date to get the most value out of your dashboard experience.
Roles and Visibility
By default, Account Admins and HR Admins can view and interact with the HR Outcomes Dashboard. In configuration settings (in-app link), you can remove access for these roles or grant access to specific individuals. Learn how to control access to the HR Outcomes Dashboard →
Use the Dashboard Tab 👩💻
The Dashboard tab is made up of three core components—Filters, Outcome Tiles, and Data Insights—each designed to help you explore trends, drill into key people metrics, and uncover actionable insights. Together, these tools give you a strategic lens into how your people are doing and where to focus your efforts for maximum impact.
Let’s take a closer look at how to use each part of the Dashboard tab effectively.
Filters 🔍
By default, the HR Outcomes Dashboard contains information for your entire company. At the top of the Dashboard tab, you’ll find filters that let you refine results by Groups (e.g., manager teams, departments), Atrributes (e.g., tenure, gender), and Outcomes (e.g., high performers, disengaged employees). Learn more about available filters →
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Apply filters to view outcome data for specific employee segments, helping you pinpoint where support is most needed. Look for concerning trends or significant changes—especially within critical groups like top performers or high-potential employees.
Outcomes Tiles 📊
The Outcome tiles are the centerpiece of the Dashboard tab, giving you a high-level snapshot of your organization’s health across three core HR outcomes: Engagement, Performance, and Turnover.
Each tile displays your most recent outcome score and visualizes key trends through charts and breakdowns. These tiles help you quickly assess whether your people are engaged, performing, and staying—and whether those trends are improving or need attention.
Outcome tiles also include a direct link to explore more detailed reporting. These links take you beyond the snapshot to diagnose what's driving your outcome scores and where to focus.
- Engagement: Click "Explore latest campaign" to jump into results from your more recent engagement campaign. You’ll be able to review key drivers, heatmaps, and suggested actions based on how employees responded. Learn more about engagement campaign reporting →
- Performance: Click "Explore this data" to access the Performance Designation Report, where you can see a breakdown of top, mid, and bottom performers across roles, departments, and managers.
- Turnover: Click "Explore this data" to view the Performance & Turnover Insight, which shows you how turnover trends compare across performance tiers. This can reveal whether you're losing high performers or at-risk talent segments.
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These tiles are your launchpad for deeper analysis and action planning. Combined with filters and data insights, they help you move from observation to informed, strategic decisions.
Data Insights 📈
Data insights help you analyze and compare trends across Engagement, Performance, and Turnover. Use them to explore how these metrics intersect. For example, you can analyze how turnover varies by performance level or how engagement scores differ between top and bottom performers. These insights help you move from what’s happening to why it’s happening. Learn more about the available data insights →
The following data insights are available:
- Objectives status: Tracks goal progress and alignment over time.
- Performance and Turnover: Reveals who’s leaving—and how well they were performing.
- Top performers and engagement: Monitors engagement among your highest-impact employees.
- Engagement: Shows organization-wide engagement trends over time.
- Top performers and pulse: Tracks the morale of top performers through Check-in responses.
- Pulse: Visualizes overall employee morale and trends over time.
Targeted Action Urgency Callout ⚠️
If your organization uses 15Five’s AI Coach (Kona), you’ll see an urgency callout below outcome tiles. This callout highlights managers who may need extra support based on recent data and AI-driven insights.
Clicking "Review insights" opens the Manager Summary Report (in-app link), which helps you understand the factors driving the need for manager support and launch Action Plans to improve effectiveness.
Help Center article 💡: Kona Reporting in the HR Outcomes Dashboard
Help Center article 💡: Create a Manager Effectiveness Action Plan
Taking Action from the Dashboard 🚀
The HR Outcomes Dashboard doesn’t just surface insights—it helps you act on them. Action Plans in 15Five are a structured, strategic tool that helps HR leaders and managers turn insights into measurable improvements across performance, engagement, and retention.
There are two ways you can create Action Plans from the Dashboard tab.
Create a Custom Action Plan 🛠️
In the top right-hand corner of the Dashboard tab, click “Draft Action Plan” to create a new plan from scratch. This option allows you to design a plan targeted to the people who meet your selected filters. Learn more about how to create an Action Plan from the Dashboard tab →
Use AI-Powered Action Plan Recommendations 🤖
When 15Five detects meaningful patterns in your data, it may surface suggested Action Plans—either within the "Explore" option in Outcomes tiles or within Data Insights. These recommendations help you respond quickly and strategically to areas that need attention.
Bringing it All Together: The HR Outcomes Flywheel 🔄
The Dashboard tab is more than just a place to check your metrics—it's the launch point for strategic action. Everything you see here supports the continuous improvement cycle at the heart of 15Five’s HR Outcomes Flywheel: Diagnose → Plan → Act.
- Diagnose: Use the HR Outcomes Dashboard to spot trends, surface root causes, and determine where to focus. Filters and data insights help you drill into the "why" behind high or low scores in engagement, performance, or turnover.
- Plan: Once you've identified areas that need attention, the Dashboard makes it easy to turn insight into strategy. Launch targeted, outcome-aligned Action Plans—either from scratch or using AI recommendations tailored to your data.
- Act: Empower people managers to carry out the plan with assigned actions like 1-on-1 talking points, coaching sessions, and development courses. Monitor progress and track impact right from 15Five.
By cycling through these phases continuously, you don’t just measure outcomes—you improve them. And by activating managers as change agents, you scale your strategy and drive long-term impact.