The 12 people metrics that matter, dashboards leaders read, and how to avoid vanity HR data.
For: HR leaders, ops, founders
A short, defensible dashboard for leaders. Skip the vanity metrics and track what predicts hire quality and retention.
Most HR dashboards are unread. The reason is consistent: too many metrics, no decision context, no benchmarks, and no narrative. This is how to build a one-page people dashboard for the CEO and board that gets opened weekly — modelled on Andy Grove's indicator philosophy and modern people-analytics practice.
Attrition is the most reported and least understood HR metric. This guide separates regretted from non-regretted, builds early-warning indicators, and turns exit data into a system that prevents the next wave — not just counts the last one.