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How to set up your company’s 9box?

In this article, you will learn how to set up your company’s 9box quadrants.

Updated over a year ago

Only users with an administrator profile can set up the company's 9box page, to learn more about it click here.

9Box is a method for evaluating the performance of the company's employees. It is a tool that can help you analyze the difference between current performance, after evaluation, and the expected result for employees, according to what was planned.

The 9Box is easy to apply and shows which professionals need actions in order to improve themselves or to be able to reach other positions in the company.

In order to make your search easier, we have divided this article into three sections. Just click on one of the options below to go straight to what you want to read:

How to enable the profile for editing the 9box?

Step 01

Go to Settings > Profiles.

Step 02

In the administrator profile, go to the ‘Admin’ tab and activate the options view and edit. This will allow you to edit the company’s 9box.

Step 03

In the same profile, go to the 'career' tab and activate the options view and edit. This will allow you to access the company's 9box.

How to set up the 9box quadrants?

Step 01

Once you have the correct profile and the necessary authorization, go to Settings >

Company.

Step 02

On the company screen, go to the ‘ninebox’ tab.

Step 03

Choose how many quadrants the 9box will have: 9, 15 or 25.

Step 04

Set up the quadrants of your 9box, by following the steps below:

Each quadrant should have the characteristics identified in the employees, related to their performance and their potential.

  1. Name: Enter the quadrant name. Quadrants should be named from top to bottom, left to right, as numbered on the screen.

    You can use the following template to describe each quadrant and adapt it to the size of your 9box.

  2. Description: Description: Insert a description so that people understand what needs to be done with the employees according to the quadrant they are in (ex: quadrant 1 (insufficient: Evaluate, Move or Dismiss. Consequence Management: Performance Improvement Plan).

  3. Color: You can choose the color of each quadrant.

Step 05

After setting up all quadrants, save your 9box.

How to define the 9box axes and limits?

Axes

The 9box is composed of two axes: X (horizontal) and Y (vertical), as shown in the picture of step 04 in the previous section.

These axes can be defined in the cycle configuration or by opening parameterization cards (they are opened by our CS team, please contact us for further information).

In order to know how to define them in the platform, follow the steps below:

Step 01

Access the Career > Cycle Reviews.

Step 02

Click on + cycle.

Step 03

When defining the stages of the cycle (results, competence, potential, values, and

feedback), you can choose two stages to be included in the Nbox axes, based on the

employee's results in the performance evaluation.

Example: results on X and competencies on Y.

If you want to know more about cycle configuration, click here.

NOTE - An axis may have more than one stage for its calculation, for example: if you want, you can open a parameterization so that the competencies stage is responsible for 50% of the grade of the x-axis and the results stage is responsible for the other 50%.

Limits

The limits of each quadrant on the axes, in other words, the minimum and maximum values of the evaluation scores that will be considered for employees to be distributed in the 9box, are defined only by parameterization.

Therefore, before setting up your cycle, contact our CS team so that they can help you set up your 9box.


And that's it!

Our team is always available to answer your questions and help you solve your problems!

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