Which objectives?

Sage People currently has two different types of objectives: Objectives and Enhanced Objectives. In your organization's performance management process, they could be called goals, objectives and key results (OKRs), or something else entirely.

Both kinds of Sage People objectives:

  • enable employees and their managers to set goals and track their progress with reviews.

  • support additional custom fields.

  • have a set of Action Events available to notify team members or managers about changes to the objective.

The following comparison highlights the key differences between objectives and enhanced objectives: 

ObjectivesPMW

Screenshot: Objectives in WX

  • have their own WX process

  • are also displayed in the Performance Overview process

  • have restrictions for the format of values in the Progress picklist

  • have Policy options for how team members and managers can edit and delete

  • approvals are captured in the Objective Approval History object

  • can have associated milestones

  • have record types associated with different states, enabling a different combination of fields to be displayed in different situations

Enhanced Objectives in WX 2.0

Screenshot: Enhanced objectives

  • are part of the Performance Management app and WX process, with Conversations and Feedback

  • can have an entirely custom set of values in the Progress picklist

  • have no default limitations on team members editing or closing their own objectives

  • can have associated tasks

  • can be aligned with other employees' and managers' enhanced objectives

  • can be created for groups