Cascading goals create strict alignment by establishing a set of overall organizational goals that flow down; ideally, every team and individual works towards one set of objectives.
Non-cascading goals are simply the opposite. There is no clear alignment between the organizational and individual employee goals. Goals are more focused on individually-specified objectives and key results, which will often not directly align with the organizational goals.
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This article covers the following topics:
Non-cascading goals
How do you know if you have cascading or non-cascading goals set up?
When Cascading Goals is turned OFF, all goals will format by a list view. Objectives will not and cannot align with another objective. Key results can be aligned to their parent objective up to one level.
Non-cascading example:
- Objective: Make Degree an International Company.
- Key Result 1: Open a Degree Location in Dubai.
- Key Result 2: Hire 10 Sales employees.
Goal Explore page with non-cascading goals
If Cascading Goals is turned OFF, your Explore page will include a list of objectives or key results aligned to key results.
The Non-cascading Goals page will include:
- A List view
- A Cascade view
In the List view, the objectives and key results are not aligned with any other objective.
In the Cascade view, the objectives show alignment with their key results. When expanding a parent objective, employees will only have the option to add a key result, but not an objective.
Create a goal with non-cascading goals
When employees create their objectives or key results and goals that are non-cascading, their Goal Creation page will not indicate any connection to any other goals, and the employee's goal page is only for their one individual goal.
There is no option to align to a parent goal when creating a goal. However, you will be able to create key results from this page.
Reporting with non-cascading goals
For Reporting with Cascading Goals turned OFF, the goals are reported individually. There is no reporting based on alignment.
Cascading Goals
When you have Cascading Goals turned ON (how to turn on Cascading Goals), what you see visually changes drastically. When you turn on Cascading Goals, all objectives and key results will be able to align with other goals.
Goal Explore page with cascading goals
If Cascading Goals is turned ON, your Explore page will include a list of Child objectives and key results aligned to Parent objectives.
Cascading goals example:
- Parent Objective: Make Degree an International Company
- Child Objective: Open a Degree Location in Dubai
- Key Result 1: Find an office space
- Key Result 2: Hire 10 Sales employees
- Child Objective: Open a Degree Location in Dubai
The Cascading Goals page will include:
- A List view
- A Cascade view
- A Tree view
You will know you have Cascading Goals ON when you can view goals in Cascade view format; the view will look as follows. The Cascade view format allows you to see what goals are aligned with one another visually and can align to +2 levels.
You also can align goals in a Tree view format. The Tree view format allows you to connect the goals visually.
Create a goal with cascading goals
When employees are creating their goals and goals are cascading, their Goal Creation page will look as follows. There is the option Align to a parent goal and this will appear under Details, allowing the goal the employee is creating to align under a parent goal. You will also be able to add supporting objectives when creating a goal.
Reporting with cascading goals
For Reporting with Cascading Goals turned ON, you can view the percentage and number of goals aligned to the company goals.
With Cascading Goals turned ON, all child objectives and key results are counted with the overall parent goals. Note, that the number of goals will reflect the same way in the report view.