Goals

Aligning goals with employee evaluations is key to fostering development, assessing goal achievement and overall performance. The Appward Goals App gives you everything you need to create a framework for your performance evaluations and deliver clear expectations, opportunities for growth, and recognition for achievements.

When employees don’t have clear visibility into their goals and priorities, it can lead to confusion, ambiguity, and misalignment of efforts within your organization. Employees may struggle to understand how their work contributes to overall objectives, resulting in decreased motivation and productivity. Implementing Goals helps nurture a more productive and supported work environment.

Aligning goals with employee evaluations is key to fostering development, assessing goal achievement and overall performance. The Appward Goals App gives you everything you need to create a framework for your performance evaluations and deliver clear expectations, opportunities for growth, and recognition for achievements.

When employees don’t have clear visibility into their goals and priorities, it can lead to confusion, ambiguity, and misalignment of efforts within your organization. Employees may struggle to understand how their work contributes to overall objectives, resulting in decreased motivation and productivity. Implementing Goals helps nurture a more productive and supported work environment.

Optimize and sync goal management with employee evaluations

  • Define goal objectives tied to an employee’s evaluation and integrated into the Reviews app
  • Establish due dates for each goal to define expectations and help team members prioritize their work and stay on track
  • Add other stakeholders to a goal for additional input, support, and guidance in managing an employee’s progress toward achieving their goals

Track progress and provide support with 100% transparency

  • Monitor goal progress of each goal with visual progress bars to gauge statuses at a glance
  • Engage in regular check-ins and discussions using Posts to facilitate conversations, feedback, and address any challenges that may arise promptly
  • Set up automated reminders and prompt employees to provide updates to ensure deadlines are met

Gain a holistic view of employee goal progress and accomplishments

  • Leverage Insights to gather real-time metrics on goal progress and completion
  • Utilize a Kanban board view to track and best manage each team member’s goals visually

Goals App Features

  • Create goals seamlessly within the Reviews App by linking them directly to an employee’s review
  • Define the type and title of the goal for clarity and specificity
  • Choose the visibility of the goal, whether it should be public or private
  • Set a due date for the goal to establish a clear timeframe for completion
  • Involve other team members by selecting them to be notified and collaborate on managing the goal
  • Utilize the description HTML field to format and provide comprehensive instructions and guidelines, ensuring employees have a thorough understanding of the goal requirements
  • Monitor the progress of each goal and make necessary edits within the Reviews App, allowing for real-time tracking and flexibility in goal management
  • Create goals within the Goals app, independent of any review or link it to a review for contextual relevance
  • A comprehensive list of all goals created for your team and those assigned to you
  • Access all relevant information pertaining to each goal conveniently located in the General tab
  • Quickly assess the status of each goal at a glance with a visual progress bar
  • Determine the duration of a goal from the day it was established and view the number of days remaining until its due
  • Obtain a clear understanding of the expected and actual hours dedicated to each goal
  • Associate a progress bar with hours spent, utilize a checklist, or freely toggle the bar for efficient monitoring
  • Utilize a Kanban view for a visual representation of each goal and effortlessly drag-and-drop goals accordingly for real-time updates
  • Pull metrics on the progress of all goals and accomplishments
  • Utilize real-time data to track individual performance metrics, identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement
  • View goal status metrics to understand what is being worked on and what is pending
  • Leverage insights for process improvements and enhanced operational efficiency
  • Communicate with managers, members and employees for feedback, updates and input to help with goal accomplishments
  • Add at-mentions to send Notifications to managers or goal members regarding a goal
  • Like messages in Posts with a single click of the thumbs-up icon to automatically trigger a Notification
  • Attach documents, images, media and AppShare direct links to any record to and from any Appward app
  • Enlarge any attached document, image or media by double-clicking the file
  • Edit your message by clicking on the pencil icon if you need to modify or update your message
  • Authors of each message posted can edit and delete their own comments
  • Use the built-in timer to log time spent working on each goal
  • Start, Pause and Stop buttons for automatic time stamps of dates and times
  • List view of each time a team member has logged time working on an action; accessible in Outgoing and Incoming Tabs
  • Quickly see a complete total of hours, minutes and seconds spent
  • Upload files associated with each goal to share with managers or members
  • Store documents, images or other media-rich files that are affiliated with each goal
  • Select and upload files directly from your computer and store them within a designated record file
  • Access the Appward cloud file explorer and select files from organizational, personal and public folders
  • Link files from Appward’s Document system via Documents
  • Edit and change files after uploading
  • Download files directly to your computer
  • Use arrow keys to organize files
  • Popout each file into its own window to view it at scale
  • Add one or multiple relevant checklists to each goal using Checklist Creator
  • Link the progress of each associated checklist with the status of each goal
  • Set a start and end date for each checklist for accurate tracking
  • Instantly view a checklist’s score and determine whether it passed or failed
  • Begin and end checklists in a hassle-free manner
  • Generate comprehensive reports to analyze performance