What are Cascading Goals?
Cascading goals are a way to align goals in Lattice. For example, employees can use cascading goals to align their personal initiatives with the entire organization's success. You can also use cascading goals to align company goals with department goals.
Note: If you were a Lattice user before the cascading goals functionality was launched, reach out to Customer Care to enable this feature.
Cascading Goals Actions
- Enable Cascading Goals
- Configure Optionality for Cascading Goals
- How to Align Cascading Goals
- How to View Aligned Goals
- Understand Progress Calculation in Lattice
Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: Can I (the admin) disable cascading goals?
A: Cascading goals cannot be disabled by Lattice admins. To disable cascading goals, please reach out to the Customer Care Team through chat or email at customercare@lattice.com.
Q: What happens to cascading goals if the feature is disabled in your account? Will the relationship between aligned goals remain intact?
A: All currently cascaded goals will remain in their current state. Only future goals will not be cascaded, you will not be able to align parent and child goals. Once disabled, your organization cannot access the Tree view in the Goals Explore.
Q: How is progress calculated with Cascading Goals enabled?
A: Cascading goals, if enabled, allows users to align child objectives to parent objectives. In these cases, the progress will work as follows:
Example 1: Objective 1 > Objective 2 > Key result 1
- Key results automatically add progress to objectives.
- Key result 1 (Eng KR 1) will flow into Objective 2 (Dept Eng Obj).
- Objective 2 (Dept Eng Obj) will flow into Objective 1 (Company Obj 1)
Learn more in Understand Progress Calculation in Lattice.