5 Essential Dashboards Every Business Leader Should Use

Business leaders, are you steering your strategy with crystal-clear insights—or flying blind? Profit.co’s dashboards are designed to make your decisions sharper, faster, and smarter. With real-time data and team engagement at their core, these five essential dashboards provide critical insights to align your goals and elevate your decision-making. Let’s explore how they can help you maximize productivity, drive growth, and create a lasting impact.

1. OKR Ownership and Alignment Cockpit Dashboard

What: This cockpit dashboard provides a detailed view of key results ownership, departmental objective alignment, and overall progress tracking. It combines data visualization tools like pie charts and bar graphs to analyze how objectives and key results are distributed and aligned across the organization.

Why: By highlighting ownership and alignment, this dashboard ensures accountability and visibility across teams. It enables organizations to identify gaps in goal ownership and foster cross-departmental collaboration, leading to improved goal execution and organizational efficiency.

How:

• Monitor key result ownership across employees, managers, and teams.
• Analyze departmental objectives with clear visualizations like bar graphs.
• Track alignment metrics to ensure consistency with company-wide goals.
• Identify and support departments or individuals falling behind.

This dashboard is a central hub for managing OKRs through planning, executing, engaging, and learning.

2. The Department Progress Heatmap Dashboard

What: The Department Progress Heatmap visually represents team and departmental OKRs. It highlights progress through metrics like achievement scores, progress percentages, and alignment with overall business objectives.

Why: This heatmap helps ensure all departments align with company goals. It allows leaders to celebrate progress, spot potential risks, and redirect attention to areas that need support, fostering collaboration and accountability.

How:

• Visualize team progress with achievement scores and progress percentages.
• Pinpoint areas needing support to maintain alignment with business objectives.
• Redirect resources effectively to address potential risks or roadblocks.

This tool ensures departments stay aligned and focused on driving organizational success.

3. Earned Value Management (EVM) Dashboard

What: The EVM Dashboard offers a comprehensive view of project performance metrics, including the Cost Performance Index (CPI), Schedule Performance Index (SPI), and To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI). It visually tracks project health using performance indicators and variance metrics.

Why: This dashboard empowers project managers to monitor cost efficiency, schedule adherence, and overall progress. Highlighting variances in cost and schedule ensures timely intervntions to keep the project on track and within budget.

How:

• Track cost efficiency with the Cost Performance Index (CPI).
• Monitor project schedules with the Schedule Performance Index (SPI).
• Use TCPI to predict the effort needed to meet project objectives.
• Quickly identify project health using quadrant graphs for cost and schedule.

Analyze actual cost, planned value, and variances to assess project health at a glance.

4. Employee Performance 9-Box Matrix Dashboard

What: The 9-Box Matrix Dashboard visually maps employees based on their performance and potential. It categorizes individuals into actionable segments, such as “Star,” “Growth Employee,” and “Core Employee,” to provide a clear understanding of team dynamics and individual contributions.

Why: This tool enables managers to identify high performers, potential leaders, and areas where employees may need additional support. Organizations can make informed decisions on promotions, training, and resource allocation by understanding where each team member stands.

How:

• Categorize employees based on performance and potential for tailored development.
• Recognize high performers and nurture employees with growth potential.
• Align training programs to address specific skill gaps effectively.
• Regularly update performance data to adapt talent strategies.

This dashboard helps identify star performers, growth performers, slow performers, etc., at a glance.

5. Recognition and Rewards Dashboard

What: A comprehensive dashboard designed to track and manage employee recognition and rewards, showcasing the points received, given, and pending, along with a visual organizational graph of interactions.

Why: Recognition is a powerful tool for boosting employee morale, creating loyalty, and encouraging productivity. This dashboard promotes a culture of acknowledgment by providing visibility into team achievements, contributions, and engagement.

How:

• Visualize recognition flow with the Organizational Graph to identify key contributors.
• Track points received, given, and pending for fair acknowledgment.
• Celebrate achievements consistently to boost morale and engagement.

This dashboard helps build a recognition-rich culture where employees feel valued and inspired to succeed.

Conclusion: Transform Your Business with Profit.co Dashboards

Profit.co’s dashboards are more than tools—they’re your gateway to smarter decisions, stronger alignment, and unparalleled growth. With real-time insights and actionable data at your fingertips, you can streamline processes, empower teams, and stay ahead in today’s dynamic business environment.

Don’t just manage your business—lead it with confidence and precision.