Permissions needed to view Goals:
Company goals can only be public.
Employees can see all public department and company goals in the Goal Explore.
When a private goal has specific departments granted visibility, all employees belonging to those departments can also view that goal.
Employees can see other employees' public goals by going to their profile pages or the Goal Explore All view.
Managers and managers of managers can see all of their report's goals regardless of whether they're private.
Private goals can only be seen by the creator of the goal, goal owner(s), their manager, all managers of managers in their reporting line regardless of layer, and admins.
Private child goals aligned to a parent goal will be visible to goal owners of the parent goal.
Goal creators will always be able to see the goal whether or not they are the goal owner, admin, or manager
Admins will see all individual, company, and department goals regardless of being private or public.