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How to Create a Department Goal

Anna Goryachikova
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Department goals are a great way to align the department to your company's priorities. 
 
You can create company goals from two different locations within the platform:

Before you start

To create a department-level goal, you will need to be either an admin or department head. Only goal owners will be notified when a department goal is published and will be responsible for editing and adding progress to the goal.
 

What is a public versus private department goal?

Goal visibility is set during the goal creation process under Visibility.

  • A public departmental goal is visible to everyone within Lattice from within the Company page.
  • A private to selected departments goal is only visible to specifically selected departments with the Departments page. You can add additional departments if necessary.

Create a department goal from the Goals page

Step 1: Navigate to the Goals page > Department.

Step 2: Click Insert objective or Insert key result to open the quick action context panel.

Step 3: Select Change details.

Step 4: Add in your desired fields –– Within the Type field, confirm it is selected to Department.

Step 5: Click Publish.

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Create a department goal from the Goal Creation Page

Step 1: Navigate to the Home page > Create goal.

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Step 2: Click Objective or Key result to open the objective creation page.

Step 3: Select Change details.

Step 4: Add in your desired fields –– Within the Type field, select Department.

Step 5: Click Publish.

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Next, learn where employees can view department goals. 

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