Configure external metrics for performance scorecards

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Employee Performance > External Metric Definition > View permission
Employee Performance > External Metric Definition > Add, Delete, and Edit permissions
External metrics data supplied with an API connection. You can configure a maximum of 50 external metrics for an organization. For more information, see .
Performance Management Admin role

Note: The Performance Management Admin role is enabled for all new organizations. However, anyone with an existing org must add this new role by using the to restore all default roles.

Performance management and gamification defines performance goals and expectations, and measures against these goals to see how individuals and teams perform. This feature allows you to import external metrics and make them a part of an employee’s performance scorecard.

Supervisors receive a single and complete view of agent performance on all key measures that your organization cares about. For more information, see .

Note: Upload external metrics data via an API connection. Workday groups and calculates the metric data that you upload via an API connection. For more information, see .

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Configure external metrics for gamification profiles

Examples of external metrics:

CSAT (Customer satisfaction scores, often from third-parties)
Daily sales
First contact resolution rate
Number of generated leads
Number of visits booked
Retention rate
Refund rate
Net Promoter Score

Measure employee performance with external metrics

Configure external metric definition in Genesys Cloud. For more information, see the section.
Add and enable the external metric for gamification profiles. For more information, see .
Upload metric data using the Genesys Cloud External Metric API. For more information, see .

Note:

Upload external metrics for the current workday: Gamification reflects the update in a few seconds.
Upload external metrics for workdays for the previous workday and up to seven days in the past: Gamification reflects the update in a few seconds.
Upload external metrics for future dates: Gamification reflects the update on the specified future date, during the nightly job. This behavior means that the update will be available on the selected future day, early in the morning.
Upload external metrics for workdays more than seven days in the past: Gamification does not reflect the update.
Genesys Cloud does not generate gamification points for external metrics that you upload for dates before an agent is added to a gamification profile.
Group average value is not supported for external metrics, either for the current day or for the weekly trend views.

External metric definition configurations

Add a new external metric definitionsClick to expand

Click Admin.
Under Performance & Engagement, click External Metric Definitions.
Click New External Metric.

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Click Menu > Performance Management > Employee Engagement > External Metric Definitions.
Configure the external metric:
- Metric Name: The name of the type of external metric that you want to define.
- Metric Unit: The metric unit indicates the unit of measurement for the specific metric. For example, the metric unit for the Total Daily Sales metric can be currency, Avg. Hold Time can be seconds, and CSAT can be a number. The metric unit is used by gamification when setting up metric objectives and when displaying the metric data on the agent’s scorecard. Select from either number, seconds, percent, or currency.
- Rounding Precision: The number of digits to round to when the metric appears in the UI.
- Default Objective Type: The default that Genesys Cloud uses when a user tries to add the specific external metric to a gamification profile. For more information, see .
To enable the metric, click Disabled. Metric enablement takes effect immediately.
Click Save Metric.

Note: Once the external metric definition is created and enabled, it can be added to one or more gamification profiles. For more information, see .

Edit external metric definitionsClick to expand

Click Admin.
Under Performance & Engagement, click External Metric Definitions.
Click Menu > Performance Management > Employee Engagement > External Metric Definitions.
From the list, click the external metric definition that you want to edit.

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Make your changes.
Perform one of these steps:
- To enable the metric, click Disabled. Metric enablement takes effect immediately.
- To disable the metric, click Enabled. Metric disablement takes effect at the end of the current workday.
Click Save Metric.

Note: After you create the external metric definition, the metric includes the following information:

Data Refreshed: The last date (time stamp) on which data was last uploaded for the external metric definition.
External Metric ID: A unique ID that the system generates when you create a new external metric definition. This ID appears in the UI, uniquely identifies each metric definition in the system, and helps match the associated data uploaded for the metric.

Delete external metric definitionsClick to expand

Click Admin.
Under Performance & Engagement, click External Metric Definitions.
Click Menu > Performance Management > Employee Engagement > External Metric Definitions.
From the list, click More in the Actions column associated with the external metric you want to delete, and then click Delete.
Click Yes, Delete.

Note: You cannot delete an external metric definition that is enabled and used with a gamification profile.

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