How to Use Goals

Using Goals in Quantum Workplace gives you visibility into how your colleagues are contributing to the organization's success, as well as how your own efforts are pushing the organization forward.

In this article:

 

Overview

Goals are more than a way to measure organizational performance, goals can help focus your attention on what is important and prioritize your workflow accordingly.

Using Goals in Quantum Workplace can give you visibility into how your colleagues are contributing to the organization's success, as well as how your own efforts push the organization forward.

Access Goals

Access the Goals Dashboard by clicking Goals in the left-hand navigation menu. 

The Goals Dashboard displays any goals you're associated with, this includes goals you created or goals that you've been given visibility into. 

This page gives you all the goal-related information at a glance and allows you to jump into existing goals or create new goals with a click. 

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Create Goals

To create a goal, click Create a New Goal in the top-right. This takes you to the Goal Wizard which guides you step-by-step through the goal-creation process. 

 

To create a goal, click the Create a New Goal button in the top right corner of your Goal Home Page. This will take you to the Goal Wizard that guides you step-by-step through the goal creation process. 
Your progress is automatically saved as you progress through the goal. If you have to leave the session and return, you will resume from where you left off. 

Name & Type

On the first page, enter and select the Name, Type, and Privacy options for your goal. 

After entering the name of your goal, click Type and expand the dropdown menu. Depending on the scope and purpose of the goal, choose from four options:

  • Developmental: Personal growth of a skill or competency, i.e. scheduling 1-on-1s with mentors, reading industry-related books, etc. 
  • Personal: Goals set for yourself or individuals within your team to accomplish larger tasks and projects.
  • Team: Goals set for an entire team that reflect everyone's collaborative effort. 
  • Organizational: Goals set for an entire organization.

Next, click the Privacy dropdown and select whether your goal is to be Public to your organization or Restricted, accessible to yourself, goal participants, their managers and administrators. 

Note: Once launched, the privacy setting can not be changed for Organizational goals. 

Under More Options, you have the optional abilities to enrich your goal:

  • AlignmentIf your goal directly relates to an existing goal, you can choose to align your new goal to the existing goal for added visibility. 
  • Description: Enter a brief description of your goal and its intended impact on your team and organization
  • TagsUse Tags to add keywords to your goal to make it easier to organize and search for this goal. 

Click Next to continue to the next page. 

Key Results

On this page, you will enter the Key Result(s) for your goal. Key Results are the actions you have to take to accomplish your goal. Each Key Result should be separated to easily manage and track your goal progress.

In the Key Result field, enter your Key Result action. Then enter the starting and target values under Start and Target respectively.

Click Unit to expand the dropdown and choose the measurement method best suited to your goal: percentage, numerical or dollars.

If the unit of measurement is Complete/Incomplete, the Start and Target value fields will be grayed out as the Start and Target values don't apply. 

The Tracking field displays how the key result will track your goal based on the information you entered. Review this field to ensure the key result reflects your intention.

  • A: Click the + New Key Result to add another key result
  • B. Click to assign a user to the key result
    • Key Result assignees are added as a Goal Contributor
  • C: Click this icon to duplicate the selected key result
  • D: If you need to delete a key result, click the Trash icon to delete the key result. 

Once you have entered the key results necessary for your goal, click Next. 

Goal Dates

On this page, you will select the start and end dates for your goal. 

Click the dates to expand the dropdown menu with a list of pre-set dates based on quarters and years or create a custom date range.  

As an admin, enable and customize a fiscal calendar for your organization to ensure quarterly goals are aligned with your organization's fiscal calendar. Learn more.

Once you're satisfied with the dates of your goal, click Next. 

Users

On the Users page, you can choose to add colleagues as Goal Contributors

To add your colleagues, click the field under Contributor, type their name, and click on their profile. This will send an email notification to selected users when they've been added as Contributors. 

Contributors can view and update the key results for the goal, they can also edit the goal's key results, but not the goal itself. 

By default, you will be made the Goal Owner, however, you can assign someone else as Goal Owner. Since there can only be one owner, you will have to remove yourself by clicking the x button next to your name.  Then, in the now-blank Goal Owner field, enter the name of the colleague who will become the new Goal Owner. 

Note: Admins can edit and delete goals, even if they're not associated as Owners or Contributors. 

Click Next to continue. 

Review

The Review page will summarize the key aspects of your goal.

If you need to make an edit to any part of your goal, you can navigate to any of the pages by clicking the dot of the appropriate page at the top of your screen. 

If you wish to preview the finalized goal without making it public, click Create in Draft ModeIf you're ready to publish your goal, click Create Goal. 

How to View and Update a Goal

Immediately after creating and launching a goal, you'll be taken to the Goal Details page. 


From the Goal Details page, you can see the following:

How to Export Goals

To export your goals:

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  1. Click Goals in the left-hand navigation menu to navigate to the Goals dashboard 
  2. Use the filters to display the soon-to-be exported goal(s)
  3. Click the Export drop-down menu in the top-right 
  4. Click Export Results to Excel or Export Results to PDF

How to Search for Goals

From the Goals page, you can search for goals that include a specific keyword in the title using the Goal Search field. The filters below the search bar can also be used to narrow your search results. 
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Alternatively, by clicking the Goal Search bar, you can select a pre-set search to quickly access all the goals that fall under each pre-set. 

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By default, when you visit the Goals page, you will be filtered down to goals that you are personally involved in. So any search you make will include the filters, Your Name and Year: Current.

To broaden your search, click the in the filter bubble to delete the filter. You can also click Reset to return the filter for yourself and the current year, as they are the default. 
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