Cycle Outcomes dashboard

Introducing Cycle Outcomes, the powerful new addition to Cycle Insights in Compensation Planning that delivers real-time visibility into your compensation cycle results.

 

Key Highlights

• Data-driven decisions without the spreadsheet headaches: Say goodbye to mid-cycle pivot tables! Cycle Outcomes delivers intuitive visualizations that instantly answer your most pressing questions about performance ratings, promotions, program-specific increses, and the relationship between performance and compensation.
• Real-time strategic intelligence: Monitor your cycle's evolution with live updates based on planner inputs, allowing you to identify trends, spot anomalies, and make proactive adjustments before your cycle concludes.
• Precision analysis with effortless filtering: Drill down into any dimension or compensation program with our flexible filtering system, enabling targeted analysis of specific employee segments, departments, or compensation programs with just a few clicks.

Getting started

• Availability: Cycle Outcomes is included with Cycle Insights for all Compensation Planning customers at no additional cost.
• Strategic access controls: Provide Cycle Outcomes access to Cycle Admins for organization-wide visibility, or to HRBPs and department leaders for targeted insights into their specific orgs.
• Simple activation: Enable the Cycle Dashboard permission for any role requiring access to the complete Cycle Insights suite, which includes Cycle Progress, Budgets, and the new Cycle Outcomes dashboards.

:::tip Reminder: Rank each performance rating in the correct order under Column configs > Performance column in order for all charts to display performance groupings in the correct order.

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How to access

Access Cycle Insights by navigating to View insights at the top of your worksheet table:

Key features

Cycle Outcomes offers two powerful analytical perspectives:

• Performance: Gain crystal-clear visibility into both overall metrics and proportional breakdowns with intuitive visualizations that instantly answer your critical questions:
  • What is the distribution of performance ratings across my organization?
  • How many employees are advancing through promotions, both in absolute numbers and percentages?
  • What is the correlation between performance ratings and compensation adjustments?
• Post Cycle Trends: Uncover the strategic impact of your compensation decisions with comprehensive trend analysis that reveals:
  • How effectively your compensation strategy positions high performers within their bands compared to mid and low performers
  • Potential outliers whose range positioning may not align with their performance assessment
  • Progress toward key compensation objectives, such as increasing the percentage of employees positioned appropriately within their bands

Performance Distribution

Breaks down the number and percent representation of each performance rating within a specified cohort.

Group by: The chart is grouped by Department by default, but can be grouped by any other employee dimension used in the cycle.

Average increase by performance

Shows the average dollar and percent raise by performance rating.

• View by: Choose the compensation program that you want to view in the graph

• Group by: Add any secondary dimension to the chart’s grouping. For example, you can group by level to view average increase by performance rating, broken down by employee level.

• Other filters: You can filter down to any employee segment using the filter options under More. You can also view promoted or non-promoted populations in isolation using the left-most filter.

  

Performance vs. Compa-Ratio

Visualizes the distribution of employees by compa-ratio (or range penetration) and performance rating. A graph with diagonal shading towards to upper right corner would reflect a pay for performance program design. Compare pre-cycle and post-cycle states side-by-side to instantly measure how your compensation decisions have strengthened performance alignment across the organization.

Filters: View promoted or non-promoted cohorts, or any other segment to refine your analysis further.

Total Cash Band Adherence

Compare the percent of employees that are within their compensation range before and after the cycle, as well as a department-specific breakdown. 

View Bands by [Department]

Visualize employee distribution within each compensation range. Each employee is color-coded based on their performance rating, making it easier to pinpoint outliers.