To further help you create a Goal-setting methodology that is best optimised for your company’s processes, we have introduced the flexibility to configure the definition of objectives on Mesh.
To read more about the structure of goals on Mesh, refer here.
Read on to understand more about the different types of objectives that you can use to setup your goals:
Simple
Best suited for startups, small businesses, and organisations that operate in fast-paced or dynamic industries, the Simple setting allows you to create objectives fast so that you can deliver a concise idea of the top-level goal ASAP, and then build the process to get there via defining key results.
In this setting, your Objectives need to be defined only with an Alignment and an Title of what you wish to achieve with it. It is assumed that the user creating the objective is the only Owner for the objective.
Clicking on the Change Details button allows you to change other details like:
- Visibility
Can be set as Public or Private (Goal would be visible to Owners, Collaborators and their Managers). By default, each objective has Public visibility. - Level
Can be set as Company, Department, Team or Individual. By default, each objective is created at the Company level. - Tags
Use the Add Tag button to add tags to your goal in order to categorize the same. To know more, look up our article on Creating and Managing tags for Goals. - Description
Lastly, use the Description field to add a lucid description to your goal
Progress for Simple Objectives would be automatically derived as the average of the child objectives and key results aligned to them.
For instance, consider a Simple Objective “Build the best product team” which has two child Key Results, “Hire 2 Senior Product Managers” and “Create dashboards to track engagement across 3 modules” with progress as 50% and 100% respectively.
Thus, the progress in the parent objective is automatically derived as 75%.
Compact
In comparatively larger setups with a focus on people management, the Compact setting in objectives makes a lot more sense.
In the Compact setting, along with the parameters defined for Simple Objectives, you can also add Owners and Collaborators to the objective.
In the Compact setting, along with the parameters defined for Simple Objectives, you can also add Owners and Collaborators to the objective.
Adding an owner to the objective
The creator of the objective is added as the Owner by default and you can add other owners by clicking on the Owners field and selecting other owners from the dropdown.
Note: While the creator of the objective can be removed as the owner, please note that the objective can be saved only when it has atleast one owner.
Adding collaborators to the objective
You can add collaborators to the objective by clicking on the Change Details button.
Search and select the collaborators to be added from the dropdown that is available on clicking on the "Select collaborators" space. You can select multiple collaborators from the dropdown.
Search and select the collaborators to be added from the dropdown that is available on clicking on the "Select collaborators" space. You can select multiple collaborators from the dropdown.
Adding owners and collaborators to objectives fosters accountability, collaboration, and shared responsibility for achieving the desired outcomes, and this is particularly useful for tracking individual progress.
Detailed
For companies that stress ownership and chase goals with a metric, setting objectives with the Detailed setting would prove to be most useful to foster better performance among employees.
Detailed objectives narrow the gap between objectives and key results, and allow the goal creator to set up tracking in order to define and measure the outcome of an objective. While this may seem elaborate, it also works well in a company that has complex, interconnected goals, where an objective may be dependent on another, and thus, tracked accordingly.
The creator can set up rules around tracking of objectives in the Tracking Type section, which is available on clicking on the Change Details button.
The default Tracking Type is set to "Dependent" , which means that progress for the objective will be tracked as a Sum or Average of the progress made in its child goals.
You can define whether you want the progress to be tracked as a Sum or Average by changing the value in the Computed As section.
Don't forget to click on the Save option to save your changes.
You can define whether you want the progress to be tracked as a Sum or Average by changing the value in the Computed As section.
Don't forget to click on the Save option to save your changes.
To track the object independently, set the Tracking Type to "Independent" and click on the Save button to save your changes.
You can now set up a detailed tracking object for your objective, comprising a Start Value, an End Value, a Measure with a Metric Name.
Do note that presently, we support only objectives that can be measured as a Count (#), Percentage (%) or Currency (depending upon the currency set in the Settings page).
Disabled
If you manage an organisation that treats its goals more like KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), having a single level of goals may be more suitable for you than having both, objectives and key results. In this case, you can keep your objectives in the Disabled setting and simply add Key Results directly, measure them by adding metrics and create Initiatives to define what would be required to achieve these key results.
For instance, let us consider an organization that has Disabled objectives and renamed Key Results as SMART Goals.
Such organizations will have only one option being displayed when a user wishes to create a goal.
Thus, with Mesh, you can customize the type of objectives followed by your company and enable employee performance in an optimized manner.
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