The 9-Box Grid is a talent management tool available in Altamira Performance. It helps you understand, at a glance, how talent is distributed across your company.

It places each employee in a matrix with 3 rows and 3 columns, combining two aspects of their evaluation:

• Performance: the results the employee achieves today in their role
• Potential: their ability to grow and take on greater roles or responsibilities in the future

The intersection of the two values creates 9 cells. Each cell describes a different employee profile.

What the 9-Box Grid is used for

With the 9-Box Grid, you can:

• Get a snapshot of talent: see in a single image how employees are distributed across a team, an evaluation project, or the entire company
• Identify key people: immediately recognize those who have excellent results and significant room for growth
• Plan growth: decide who to focus on for development, training, or succession plans
• Intervene where needed: identify situations that require closer attention, such as results below expectations
• Compare evaluations: after an evaluation cycle, check whether ratings are balanced or overly concentrated in a few cells

How to read the grid

Performance is shown on the horizontal axis and Potential on the vertical axis. Each axis is divided into three ranges: Low, Medium, and High.

• The farther to the right an employee is, the higher their performance
• The higher up an employee is, the higher their potential

The 9 cells are generally interpreted as follows. However, each company can adapt their meaning to its own evaluation criteria.

Employees who have not been evaluated

Employees who do not yet have a Performance or Potential value do not appear inside the grid. You can find them in the Not evaluated area, in the bottom-left corner, where the two axes meet:

• if there is only one unevaluated employee, their photo appears
• if there is more than one unevaluated employee, a circle with the number of unevaluated employees appears

To view the list of unevaluated employees:

1. Click the photo or the circle with the count in the bottom-left corner of the grid
2. The Not evaluated panel opens, showing the list of employees (name, work email, role, and evaluator)
3. To find an employee, enter their name in the search field
4. To complete an employee's evaluation, click the arrow at the end of the row and then click Edit: their evaluation form (PMP) opens
5. To close the panel, click the X next to the Not evaluated title

Where to find the 9-Box Grid

Depending on your account configuration, the grid may be available in several places:

• As a tab within the evaluation form (PMP): shows the position of the evaluated employee only
• As a tab in the employee profile: shows the employee's position based on the values recorded in their profile
• On the evaluation project dashboard: shows all employees evaluated in the project, providing an overview of how the evaluations within it went
• In the Reports section, as a chart showing the entire company population

If you are interested in this feature, contact your sales representative.