How to enable Goal Alignment?

What is Goal Alignment?

Goal Alignment refers to the process of connecting your goals to higher-level objectives within the company, department, or individual objectives. For organizations, alignment is about ensuring that everyone is working toward the same end goal. Keka’s Goal module enables departments and individuals to align their goals to company goals as that enables everyone to work toward a common goal.

For example, imagine a software development company that has set a company-wide goal of boosting its annual revenue by 20%. To achieve this goal, various departments and individuals must align their goals accordingly. The sales department may set a goal to close 30% more deals, while the marketing team aims to generate 40% more qualified leads.

Using Keka's Goal module, these departmental goals can be aligned with the company's primary goal of increasing annual revenue. Furthermore, individual employees within each department can create individual goals tied to their department's goals. A salesperson might set a target to upsell existing clients, while a marketer could focus on optimizing a specific marketing channel for better lead generation. By aligning everyone's goals in this manner, the entire organization stays focused on the shared end goal of increasing revenue, ensuring that each team and individual's efforts contribute effectively to achieving the overall goal.

Why is alignment important in achieving our goals and producing results?

1. Clear direction: If employees are unclear about their organization's broader goals, they may feel disoriented and uncertain about how their contributions impact the company positively. To provide employees with a sense of direction and motivation, it is important to establish transparent company/department-wide goals.
2. Better resource allocation: Alignment helps organizations allocate their resources more efficiently by ensuring that their efforts and investments are focused on the most critical priorities.
3. Faster decision-making: Alignment helps organizations streamline the decision-making process by ensuring everyone is working with the same set of priorities and goals.
   
   

How to enable Goal Alignment?

1. Go to Performance (1) from the left navigation pane on your Keka HR Portal. Select the Goals (2) tab and go to the Settings (3) tab and click on Goals Settings (4).
   
2. Navigate to Advanced Goal settings and click on Edit.
3. To enable to disable Goal Alignment, click on toggle switch button on and off to enable or disable Enable Alignment.
4. When you Enable Alignment, the "Allow child Goals to contribute to parent Goals progress" option is enabled by default. This means that aligned goals will contribute to the progress of the parent goal. If you don't want aligned goals to contribute to the parent goal's progress, you can disable this option. Users can override this setting from the child goals.
   
5. Click on "Save" button to save the selected goal alignment option. 

How to create Aligned Goal?

1. Go to Me (1) from the left navigation pane on your Keka HR Portal. Select the Performance (2) tab and go to the Goals(3) tab.
2. To create goal, go to the My Goals tab, and then click on + Add Goals.
   
3. Once you have entered the necessary details, click on Publish.
   
4. Navigate to the goal you want to align and click on the three dots action item then click on the "Align Goal" option.
   
5. From the displayed list of goals you can select the goals you want to align then click on "Save" button to align goal.

Hope this was helpful in understanding how to use Goal Alignment. More questions? Get in touch with our product experts and we will be happy to help!