Do you know the story behind your learning platform analytics?

Behind every compliance tick and completed module lies something bigger and more revealing: A story about how your people learn. From what makes them tick to where they get stuck, analytics reveal how your organisation supports their development. 

But far too often, these stories go untold – and unutilised. With hard-to-access data scattered across multiple platforms or hidden in the depths of reports nobody knows how to read, the numbers become inaccessible and L&D teams are left trying to justify their impact with spreadsheets and hunches. 

That’s where Thrive Analyse comes in.

With new embedded dashboards rolling out every month, Thrive Analyse is designed to help L&D teams not only track their impact, but understand it — and share it in a way that makes people listen.

So today, we’re diving into five key dashboards already available in Thrive. Each one tells a different part of your L&D story. Together, they reveal what’s really going on across your organisation.

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1. Leadership dashboard: the story of engagement and accountability

If you want to know whether your leaders are truly bought into learning, this is where to look.

This intuitive reporting tool offers a high-level snapshot of learning compliance across your organisation, with filters to drill down by audience, assignment status, and more. From tracking overdue tasks to exporting detailed reports, it’s designed to make oversight simple and actionable.

This dashboard can answer big, strategic questions like:

• How many leaders are actually completing mandatory learning? The Leadership Dashboard provides data on open, overdue, and completed assignments and allows filtering by audience (e.g., department, role, team). This means you can specifically view completion rates for people managers or leadership groups.
• Are certain departments more engaged than others? Since the dashboard allows you to segment and filter by audience, you can compare engagement levels (e.g., completions vs. overdue learning) across departments or teams — giving you a clear sense of which areas are more proactive.
• Who’s setting the tone for a learning culture? The dashboard lets you identify which individuals or groups are completing their learning consistently, showing login activity, and maintaining high compliance. That quantitative data can be a strong indicator of who’s leading by example in fostering a learning culture.

It also helps make the case for more support. If you’re seeing low engagement at the leadership level, it’s not just an L&D problem; it’s a business culture problem. And now you’ve got the data to back it up.

Story example:
If you spot a sharp rise in leadership engagement after a new coaching module went live, that’s a green flag you can wave in your next board meeting. “We gave leaders practical tools, and they showed up.”

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2. Content dashboard: the story of what works (and what doesn’t)

Ever wonder which content your learners actually value?

The Content dashboard tracks trending content, usage patterns and performance over time. It tells you what learners are clicking on, completing, revisiting, and sharing.

But it also shows you what’s gathering dust.

This is gold for content strategy. It allows you to:

• Identify high-performing resources to amplify or repurpose
• Retire or rework underperforming content
• Spot seasonal or trend-based spikes in interest (e.g., wellbeing in January)

It also helps connect content to outcomes. If a safety module is consistently completed by teams with low incident rates, that’s a great case study waiting to be told.

Story example:Let’s say your diversity and inclusion pathway spikes in completions right after a town hall. That’s clear evidence that internal comms + content alignment is working—and you’ve got the graph to prove it.

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3. Team Progress dashboard: the story of motivation and momentum

It’s easy to get caught up in completions and forget the bigger picture. That’s where the Team Progress dashboard comes in.

This dashboard helps you understand how people are moving through learning pathways. (Not just whether they finish, but how long they take, where they pause, and what they achieve along the way.)

You can also track:

• Quiz completion rates (and average scores)
• Badge and achievement collection
• Drop-off points in multi-step pathways

This tells you something powerful about your team: how motivated they are, what they’re confident in, and where they might need more support or nudging. It’s particularly valuable if you’re designing blended or role-based learning, where progress matters just as much as end results.

Story example:Imagine seeing a 70% badge achievement rate across your customer support team — but only 30% for new starters in other departments. That might indicate onboarding gaps, misaligned content, or simply the need for better guidance early on.

4. Events dashboard: the story of real-time learning impact

Not everything happens online. Workshops, company broadcasts, and virtual talks still play a vital role in learning ecosystems — and the Events dashboard helps you track them with the same rigour as digital modules.

You can monitor:

• Attendance and registration trends
• No-show rates
• Post-event feedback
• Topic popularity over time

This lets you prove the value of face-to-face or live virtual learning with hard data. And it can also help you optimise future planning. For example, if lunchtime sessions always outperform Friday afternoons, you’ve got evidence to back a scheduling rethink.

Story example:Suppose your monthly DEI drop-ins were poorly attended — until you changed the name and format. The Events dashboard can show that attendance tripled, feedback improved, and learners started recommending the sessions to peers. Now that’s a story worth sharing.

5. Talent Management dashboard: the story of skills and growth

This is where the L&D narrative gets strategic.

The Talent Management dashboard tracks CPD activity, skill development, and capability gaps across the organisation. It turns abstract goals like “building future leaders” or “closing the skills gap” into measurable outcomes.

Key insights include:

• CPD completion by role, team or department
• Emerging trends in skill acquisition
• Visibility of talent gaps across functions
• Individual development journeys

For HR and People teams, this dashboard is a treasure trove. It helps align L&D with performance and workforce strategy – while for L&D teams, it’s your proof that ultimately what you’re building is growth. 

Story example:

If you notice a steady uptick in digital skills development in your finance and ops teams, that’s evidence of upskilling success. Share that trend with senior leadership to advocate for wider digital learning initiatives.

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Telling your story with confidence

Dashboards are often treated as tools for tracking — but at Thrive, we believe they’re tools for telling.

Each of these five dashboards reveals a different part of your L&D ecosystem. They give you the language to turn data into influence, whether you’re reporting up, presenting to peers or driving new strategy.

Better still, you don’t need a degree in data science to use them. Thrive Analyse is built to be intuitive, embedded and insightful. We’re rolling out a new dashboard every month, so you’ll always have fresh ways to explore and share what’s happening behind the scenes.

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Your L&D story matters

Too often, L&D teams are asked to prove their value without the tools to do so. Thrive Analyse changes that. With just a few clicks, you can move from anecdotal evidence to rich, visual storytelling backed by data that actually means something.

So next time someone asks, “How’s L&D going?”, you won’t need to scramble for bullet points.

You’ll have the whole story — beautifully visualised, easy to understand, and impossible to ignore.

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Ready to see your L&D story in data? Log in to Thrive today and explore your dashboards — or reach out to your Customer Success Manager to activate the ones you need.

And if you’re feeling some FOMO, book a demo to find out more about becoming a Thrive customer – and discover how your data could be working harder. 

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