Drill into dimensions and trends

Benchmarks tell you where your organization stands; the dimension breakdown tells you why. This is the bottom half of a tool’s reporting view — heatmap, items, and trajectory.

Before you start

You need the org admin role and assessments reporting enabled. Open a tool from the reporting index — see Use assessments reporting.

The dimension heatmap

The heatmap lists each dimension of the instrument with three columns:

• Self — the average self-assessment score.
• External — the average score from raters.
• Gap — the difference, classified as Blind Spot, Hidden Strength, or Aligned — see Understand benchmarks and gap analysis.

Cells are colored by the same factor bands used in individual reports — High Risk, Risk, Limiting, Growth, Strength, Success — so weak dimensions jump out without reading a single number. Expand a dimension to see its subscales, and break external scores out by rater type to see whether peers, direct reports, and managers agree.

Item-level drill-in

Open a dimension’s items to see scores question by question. Dimension averages can hide a split — one strong item propping up one weak one — and the item level is where the specific behavior behind a low score shows itself.

Score trajectory

The time series plots scores over time, so you can see whether an intervention moved the needle. Judge trends against submission volume: a month with three submissions swings more than a month with three hundred. Check the activity calendar on the reporting index if a data point looks suspicious.

Filters

Every view on the page respects the filter bar:

• Date Range — limit to a time window.
• Scale — focus on specific dimensions.
• Rater Type — self only, or a specific external relationship.
• Cohort — one training group at a time — see Create and manage training cohorts.
• Demographic attributes — any attributes your organization has defined.

Start broad, then narrow one filter at a time so you know which cut changed the picture.