How to Create and Configure your Goals

Learn how to create, manage and assign goals for your employees. Also gain in-depth knowledge of the permissions you can enable for goals.



Install Goals 

  • Head to the App Section
  • Install Goals 
  • 📍 Find goals in the Performance section.
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Create Goals

💡 Employees can also create goals. But first, you must activate the goals permits from the permissions section. 

Goals > Permissions:
• See employee goal
• Create goals

•  📍In performance, within Goals: Press in +Add goal

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Goal Name: Add 10 New french-speaking team members
Goal Description: Recruit 10 French-speaking team members to grow the market.
Start Date: 01/01/2020
Due Date: 01/12/2020
How will you measure the progress? Numeric or not measuring progress. 


3.  Configure your Goal 

🔺 Once the goal is activated, the type of progress cannot be edited.

⇒ Press in the (...) to edit or delete your goal

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⇒ Press in close goals to mark the goal as finished. Note that whenever you close goals you will have the opportunity to restart it by pressing  on the same button.

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Add employees:  As long as the goal is active, you can add as many employees as you need.

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⇒ How to discard an employee?: Press the (...) and click on unassign employee

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4. Can employees make changes to their goal values and progress? 

💡 By default, the platform will only allow employees to edit their: current value and progress. But they will not be able to edit the target goal. If the admin wishes it, he/she can enable these permissions from Company>Permissions>Goals.  

  • 📍 Admins can edit the goals, values and progress from Performance > Goals

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  • 📍 Employees can edit current value and progress from My Goals 

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5. -My Goals- From the employee's point of view

As an employee, I will have a My Goals Section. From My Goals, I will see all the goals I am assigned and I will be able to update their progress. 

💡 In case my administrator has given me the permissions to manage goals: To view, create and edit these goals. I will have to manage them from the Performance > Goals Section, which will be activated once the permissions are granted. 


6. Goals notifications flow

📧Each time a goal is assigned.
📧Every time there is an update a notification will be sent to the assigned person and his/her manager.
📧 A reminder 3 days before the due date of the goal.