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How to End a Goal

Anna Goryachikova
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How to mark a goal complete in Lattice
Please note: This article walks through ending a goal when O&KR differentiation is disabled by your account admin. For the steps for Goals V2, check out How to End a Goal with O&KR Differentiation.
Once you have stopped working on a goal in Lattice, you have the option to end the goal as complete or incomplete.
You might want to mark a goal as complete if you've finished progress on the goal or you have made significant progress on the goal. You might mark a goal as incomplete if you made little to no progress on your goal. 
 

Before you start

  • If you have the Slack integration and have marked your goal as incomplete, no one will be notified of that change. 
  • Marking a public goal as complete will notify everyone via Slack when updated.
  • Once you have ended your goal, the goal's progress will be preserved as-is. 
  • Goal owners will not be emailed that the goal has been ended.
 
There are two places in Lattice where you can end a goal:

End a goal from the Goal Explore context panel

Step 1: Navigate to Goal > My goals.

Step 2: Click on the goal you would like to end to open the goal context panel.

Step 3: Click on the checkmark icon to end the goal. 

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Step 4: A popup will appear –– Mark the goal as Complete or Incomplete.

If your company has cascading goals turned on (parent/child goals) you will also be able to end child goals (key results) of the parent goal at the same time. Please note: This will not end other child goals down the cascade.

Step 5: Confirm by clicking End goal and key results.

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End a goal from the Goals Details page

Step 1: Navigate to the goal that you want to update.

  • You may have a task on your Home page reminding you that it is time to update your goals. 
  • You may have received an email to remind you that it is time to update your goals.
  • You may enter the profile by clicking on the goal name within the Goals page's context panel.
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Step 2: At the top right corner, click Options > End this goal....

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Step 4: A popup will appear –– Mark the goal as Complete or Incomplete.

If your company has cascading goals turned on (parent/child goals) you will also be able to end child goals (key results) of the parent goal at the same time. Please note: This will not end other child goals down the cascade.

Step 5: Confirm by clicking End goal and key results.

 
 

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