What is it?

A spider chart is typically created to graphically show the size of the gaps among three to eight organizational performance areas. The chart displays the important categories of performance and makes visible concentrations of strengths and weaknesses.

When to use it:

A spider chart shows how a team has evaluated several organizational performance areas. The investigation that feeds data to the chart should include varied perspectives to provide an overall realistic and useful picture of performance.

Contents of the Template

This sample template does not open any standard Visio stencils.  However, the template’s Document Stencil is open and contains the shapes used to construct the charts.  You may save these shapes to your own stencil to use with other drawings.

The template contains the following pages:

·          Survey Sample - 8 Categories

·          3 Axis through 8 Axis blank charts containing the circles and a set of axes

·          Background

The document stencil contains the following shapes:

·          Subject shapes: Triangle, Square, Pentagon, Hexagon, Heptagon, Octagon

·          Axis shapes: 3-Axis, 4-Axis, 5-Axis, 6-Axis, 7-Axis, 8-Axis

·          Web Circles:  containing 10 concentric circles for value increments of 10

·          Border

This document contains shapes that do not ship with Visio 2003 Standard. These shapes exist on one or more of the pages in the drawing, but they also exist on the template's Document Stencil. To open the Document Stencil to view these master shapes, from the File menu, select Shapes, and then select Show Document Stencil. From here, new shapes can be added to your drawing. You can also copy these shapes from the Document Stencil, and add them to your own new stencil. For more information on creating Visio stencils, please see Visio Help.

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