Adding child goals

To suit the goal-setting methodologies of most companies, Mesh provides the option of having cascading goals, where a goal can have one or more child goals.

Certain goals have child goals to break down complex objectives into smaller, manageable tasks, ensuring clarity, alignment, and a structured approach towards achieving the overarching goal. This hierarchical structure helps in organising efforts, assigning responsibilities, and tracking progress at different levels, promoting efficiency and coordinated execution.

To further drive flexibility, we also provide the option to cascade objectives into child objectives, which can further be cascaded down to child goals as well.

Thus, if you have the requisite permissions, you can create and align a child goal or objective to any goal or objective of your organisation.

You can add a child goal directly while creating the parent goal, or later while editing the parent goal.

You can read more about the steps to create a goal here_____

Once you have defined all the characteristics of the parent goal/objective, you can choose the option to Save and add Child to add a child Goal from the split button dropdown beside the default state.

This saves the goal that you were creating and opens the Add goal panel with alignment set to the already created goal.

Depending on your organization’s access control settings, you can also add child objectives to a goal/objective.

You may want to add child goals or objectives to an already created parent goal.

To do the same:

Step 1: Select the goal for which you wish to add the child goal. You can select a parent goal from your goals or your company-wide goals.

Step 2: On selecting the goal, the Edit goal panel will open.

Step 3: To add a child goal, select the Child Alignment option from the side navigation bar.

Step 4: You will be able to see all the child goals of the goal. Select the Add Child Goal button on the top left. In case you wish to add a child objective, click on the arrow button beside the Add Child Goal button and select Add Child Objective.

Do note that the child goal or objective would be added in the same timeframe as the parent goal.

Step 5: You would be led to the “Add goal” screen, where you can define your goal. Refer to this page to understand how to create a goal.

Alternatively, you can also add a child goal or objective directly from any of the Goals List View. To do the same:

Step 1: Open a suitable list of goals that you wish to add a child goal to. Depending on your access control settings, you can choose to view your goals, your company-wide goals and also your team’s goals.

Step 2: To create a child goal or objective for a goal, click on the Ellipsis menu towards the extreme right of the goal

Step 2: Select whether you want to Add child Objective or Add child Goal from the dropdown.

Do note that the child goal (objective or key result) would be added in the same timeframe as the parent goal.

Step 3: You would be led to the Add Goal or Add Objective screen, where you can define your goal.