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End a Goal

Anna Goryachikova
  • Updated

Once an employee has stopped working on a goal, they have the option to end the goal as complete or incomplete. 

  • Complete: Finished progress on the goal or made significant progress on the goal
  • Incomplete: Made little to no progress on your goal

Once a goal has been ended, the progress will be preserved as-is. Goals will not auto-complete; this leaves room to exceed the goal target.

Before you start

  • If your company is integrated with Slack, marking a goal as incomplete will not notify other employees.
  • If your company is integrated with Slack, marking a public goal as complete will notify other employees.
  • 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

  1. Navigate to Goal > Your goals.
  2. To open the goal context panel, click on the objective or key result you would like to end.
  3. Click More > End.
  4. A popup will appear –– Mark the goal as Complete or Incomplete.
  5. If your company has cascading goals turned on (parent/child goals) you can end child objectives or key results of the parent goal at the same time.
    • Note: This will not end other child goals down the cascade.
  6. Confirm by clicking Yes.

End Objective Modal. The options Mark as Complete and Mark as Incomplete can be seen at the top of the modal. Under End 3 supporting items, supporting goals are listed with checkboxes.

End a goal from the Goals Details page

  1. Navigate to the objective or key result that you want to end.
    • 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.
  2. At the top right corner, click End.
  3. A popup will appear –– Mark the goal as Complete or Incomplete.
  4. 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.
    • Note: This will not end other child goals down the cascade.
  5. Confirm by clicking Yes.

Goal Details Page. An arrow points to the End button at the top right of the page.

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