Your dashboard

Who can use this: Employees only. Your org admin must enable the employee portal before this experience is available to you.

The dashboard is your home in Performance Blocks. It is the first screen you see after signing in, and it summarizes everything that needs your attention — pending feedback assignments, summaries shared with you, recent conversations with your manager, and the objectives you are tracking.

This article walks through every section of the dashboard, explains what each card means, and points to the deeper guides for each area.

When the employee portal is available

The employee portal is an opt-in product surface that org admins enable for the whole organization. If you sign in and land on a generic profile page instead of a dashboard, the portal has not been turned on for your org yet. Ask your org admin to enable Employee Portal in Settings → Organization → Features.

Once the portal is enabled, your sign-in flow takes you straight to /employee and the dashboard loads.

Layout at a glance

The employee dashboard uses a two-column layout on desktop and a single stacked column on mobile.

• Left column (primary content) — recent activity, pending items, summaries shared with you, recent conversations.
• Right column (sidebar) — your objectives, your manager card, quick links.
• Top bar — global search, notifications, your avatar menu.

Each card has a header with a clear title, a body with the items themselves, and (where relevant) a footer link to the full page for that area.

The cards on your dashboard

Pending items

The Pending items card sits at the top of the left column. It collects everything that requires action from you, in priority order:

1. Feedback requests — 360 feedback assignments where you have been asked to give feedback about a peer. Each row shows the subject's name, the cycle name, and the deadline. Click any row to open the feedback form.
2. Summary acknowledgements — summaries your manager has shared with you that you have not yet acknowledged. Click to open the summary in read mode.
3. Conversation replies — 1:1 messages from your manager that you have not yet read or replied to.
4. Objective updates due — your active objectives that have not been updated in the past two weeks.

If there is nothing pending, the card shows an empty state ("You're all caught up") rather than disappearing — that way you always know where this card lives.

Recent activity

Below pending items is Recent activity. This is a chronological feed of the things that have happened to your performance record over the past 30 days. Examples:

• A new summary was shared with you.
• Your manager replied in a 1:1 conversation.
• You completed a 360 feedback assignment.
• You updated progress on an objective.
• An objective was approved or closed.

Activity items are read-only — they are an audit trail, not a to-do list. To take action, scroll up to the Pending items card.

Summaries shared with you

The Summaries card lists every performance summary your manager has shared with you, newest first. Each row shows:

• The summary title (often a period name like "H1 2026 Review").
• The date your manager shared it.
• A status chip: Unacknowledged, Acknowledged, or Clarification requested.

Click any row to open the full summary. See Viewing your summaries for what each section of a summary contains.

Recent conversations

The Conversations card shows your most recent 1:1 threads with your manager, sorted by most recent activity. Each row shows the conversation title, the last message preview, and a relative timestamp. Unread threads are bolded with an indicator dot.

Click a row to open the conversation. See Conversations with your manager for the full guide.

Your objectives

The right-hand sidebar leads with Your objectives — every active objective assigned to you or created by you (when employee objectives are enabled). Each row shows:

• The objective title.
• A progress bar (0–100%).
• A status chip: On track, At risk, Behind, or Blocked.
• The target date.

Click any objective to open it and update progress, leave a comment, or attach evidence. See Tracking your objectives for the complete workflow.

Your manager card

Below objectives is a small card with your manager's name, title, and avatar. From here you can:

• Start a new conversation with your manager.
• View your reporting line (your manager, and their manager, up to org root).

If your manager is unset, this card shows "No manager assigned" and links to Settings → Profile so you can request the correct assignment.

Quick links

At the bottom of the sidebar are quick links to:

• My profile — name, title, photo, contact info.
• Notification settings — control how and when you are notified.
• Help center — documentation and support contact.

What you do not see on the dashboard

Performance Blocks distinguishes between data that belongs to you (your summaries, your objectives, conversations you are part of, feedback you submitted) and data that belongs to your manager (raw observations they recorded about you, draft summaries they have not shared, manager-only notes).

The following are not visible on your dashboard, by design:

• Observations / performance blocks — the small, structured pieces of feedback your manager records throughout the year. These are private to your manager until they are synthesized into a summary that gets shared with you. You will see the result (the summary), not the raw notes.
• Draft summaries — summaries your manager is still writing or that are awaiting org admin approval. They appear only after they have been shared with you.
• Other employees' data — feedback, summaries, or objectives belonging to peers (except 360 feedback you have been asked to give about a specific peer).
• Team summaries and skip-level summaries — these are aggregate write-ups owned by managers and org admins.
• Henry agent activity logs — if your org uses the Henry AI assistant, conversations between your manager and Henry about you are not exposed.

This separation is intentional. It lets your manager keep working notes throughout the year without every keystroke becoming a notification, and it makes the summary the canonical record of what is shared with you.

Navigating the rest of the employee surface

The left-side navigation rail is consistent on every page in the employee portal. Top to bottom:

Item	What it goes to
Dashboard	The home view described in this article.
Conversations	All 1:1 threads with your manager.
Summaries	Every summary shared with you, in a list view.
Feedback	360 feedback assignments — both ones you owe and ones you have submitted.
Objectives	Your objectives, with the option to add new ones if your admin has enabled employee objectives.
Profile	Your user profile, manager assignment, and notification preferences.

Selecting any item in the rail loads the full page for that area. The dashboard is the only place that surfaces all of them in one view.

Notifications

Performance Blocks notifies you when something on your dashboard changes. By default you are notified by:

• In-app — the bell icon in the top bar shows a count of unread notifications.
• Email — a daily digest of new activity, plus immediate emails for high-priority events (a summary shared, a feedback request opened).

You can adjust the channel and frequency for each notification type in Profile → Notifications. We recommend leaving the defaults on while you are getting started.

If your organization has the Slack or Teams integration enabled, you can also receive notifications in your messaging tool. See the integrations section for details.

Mobile experience

The dashboard is fully responsive. On phones and small tablets:

• The two columns collapse into a single stacked column.
• The navigation rail collapses into a hamburger menu in the top bar.
• Cards remain in the same priority order: pending items first, then recent activity, then summaries, conversations, and objectives.
• All actions (acknowledge a summary, reply to a conversation, update an objective) are available on mobile.

You do not need a separate app. The web experience is designed to work well on touch devices and keeps you within the 44×44 hit-area minimum for every interactive control.

Search

The global search bar in the top bar searches across:

• Summaries shared with you.
• Conversations you are part of.
• Your objectives.
• Help center articles.

It does not search observations, draft summaries, or anything else that is not visible to you.

Search results are grouped by type so you can quickly jump to what you are looking for. Press / (forward slash) anywhere in the app to focus the search bar.

Keeping your profile current

Your dashboard relies on a few profile fields being correct:

• Manager — drives the conversations card, the manager card in the sidebar, and which summaries get shared with you.
• Display name and photo — what your manager and peers see when they look at observations, summaries, or 360 feedback about you.
• Notification preferences — controls what shows up in the bell menu and your email inbox.

You can update all of these from Profile. If your manager assignment is wrong, ask your org admin to fix it — managers are typically managed centrally rather than self-service, especially if your org uses HRIS sync.

Where to go next

Once you have a feel for the dashboard, the most useful next reads are:

• Conversations with your manager — how 1:1 messaging works.
• Viewing your summaries — what to do when a summary is shared with you.
• Giving 360 feedback — what to expect when you are asked to give peer feedback.
• Tracking your objectives — keeping your goals current.

If anything on your dashboard looks off — wrong manager, missing summaries, an objective you do not recognize — start by checking your profile, then escalate to your org admin if it still does not match what you expect.