When it comes to internal communications, setting up an internal communications dashboard is essential. Why? Because visualizing complex data points helps you clearly understand what’s working—and what’s not. With the right dashboard in place, you can focus your time and energy on strategies that drive engagement, while also proving your team’s value to organizational leadership.
Let’s dive into how you can build an effective internal communications dashboard and make it your most powerful decision-making tool.
What Should an Internal Communications Dashboard Include?
First and foremost, your internal communications dashboard should bring together the most relevant data from the different platforms your organization uses. Whether it’s SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, or Yammer, a good dashboard will help you monitor and measure how internal messages are being received, understood, and acted upon.
🧠 Ask the Right Questions From the Start
Before you build your dashboard, take time to reflect:
- What kind of data would be helpful to have at your fingertips?
- What are the key performance indicators (KPIs) tied to your communication goals?
- Which platforms are most critical for your internal messaging?
By thinking through these questions early, you’ll ensure that your dashboard is truly aligned with your needs—not just another set of numbers.
How Will You Use Your Internal Communications Dashboard?
While it’s important to know what data you need, it’s equally important to understand how you’ll use it. A well-designed internal communications dashboard should allow you to:
- Spot trends at a glance
- Deep dive into performance when necessary
- Quickly share meaningful insights with leadership
In other words, your dashboard must be actionable. This means including both high-level overviews and the ability to explore granular data—like open rates by department or engagement by job function. That way, you’re not just collecting information, but actively using it to improve your communication strategy.
How to Build Your Dashboard: Tools and Methods
There are several ways to build dashboards for internal communications. For simple overviews, a Web Part page in SharePoint might suffice. However, more advanced dashboards usually require a third-party tool, because most internal platforms are not designed with deep analytics in mind.
Here are some examples of useful data points your dashboard should include:
- Who is reading your messages—and where open rates are low or high
- Which teams are engaging with intranet content like company news or compliance updates
- How employees are interacting on digital platforms like Teams or Yammer
- What topics drive the most comments, shares, or questions
Clearly, gathering and analyzing all this data manually would be overwhelming. That’s where a solution like Communication Insights by Tryane comes in.
Why Communication Insights is the Best Internal Communications Dashboard
If you’re working within the Microsoft ecosystem, Tryane’s Communication Insights is your go-to platform for building powerful internal communications dashboards.
Here’s what you can do with it:
📊 Office 365 Analytics
Find out which tools are most used in your organization. Understand employee behavior, segment by department or region, and detect communication patterns across channels.
💬 Microsoft Teams
Track how information circulates between departments. See how apps are used within Teams and evaluate team collaboration in real time.
📣 Yammer
Measure the reach and engagement of announcements. Identify inactive users and compare behavior across business units.
🌐 SharePoint
Discover who’s viewing which documents, identify thought leaders, and encourage them to contribute to ongoing discussions.
Additionally, Communication Insights provides advanced capabilities such as:
- Sentiment analysis powered by AI
- Plain text search and topic tracking
- Influencer detection within your workforce
- Custom reports for KPIs tied to specific teams or projects
These features go far beyond what native dashboards offer, allowing you to measure, understand, and act on your internal communications data like never before.
Why Measuring Matters
Without a reliable way to measure your communication performance, you’re essentially operating in the dark. Setting up an internal communications dashboard enables you to:
- Identify gaps in engagement
- Prove ROI to leadership
- Improve message relevance
- Tailor communication by audience
Yes, setting up a dashboard takes some planning. But with Tryane Analytics, it becomes a simple, high-value process. In fact, many of our customers use Communication Insights to:
- Access reports in one click
- Track key KPIs across multiple platforms
- Automate reporting and receive performance alerts
- Save hours of manual data collection
Ready to Build Your Internal Communications Dashboard?
Your communications team has a big role to play in shaping company culture and keeping employees informed. But to prove your impact—and continuously improve—you need the right tools.
Tryane’s internal communications dashboard is built specifically for internal communicators like you. By centralizing data, revealing key insights, and aligning with your goals, Communication Insights helps you become more strategic, more agile, and more effective.
Contact Tryane today to learn more about how it can help you use dashboards to maximize your internal communication efforts.