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Creating and aligning Individual Goals (new)

Learn to create individual goals in Culture Amp with step-by-step instructions.

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Written by Jessie Walsh
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Who can use this feature?

Available on:

  • All Culture Amp subscriptions that include Goals (new)

This guide will walk you through how to create an individual goal in a few simple steps.

Accessing and creating Individual goals


Navigate to Goals > Goals (new) in the main menu.

Click Create goal to begin.

Types of Individual goals

There are two types of individual goals you can create: Delivery Goals and Development

  • Individual delivery goal: Focused on work-related objectives.

  • Individual development goal: Aimed at personal growth and development (no Key Results Owners).

Steps to create a goal


Goal title: This field is required.

Goal description: Optional, but useful for providing context.

Due date: Required; must be today or a future date.

Owners: The goal creator is the default owner.

  • You can assign additional owners by searching for and selecting users.

Setting visibility

Control who can view your goal:

  • Everyone: Visible to all employees.

  • Specific people: Only visible to goal owners, key result owners, administrators, goal owners' managers, and selected employees.

  • Private: Only visible to goal owners, key result owners, the goal owners’ managers, and administrators.

Adding key results (optional for individual delivery goals)


Click Add key result.

Complete the required fields:

  • Key result title

  • Key result measure: Choose between Percentage and Number (including decimals or negative numbers).

  • Key result owner: Defaults to the goal owner, but you can assign different owners to each key result.

Aligning goals


You can align your goal with either a primary goal or a supporting goal to ensure better focus and alignment with broader objectives.

Here’s how to do it:

Click the Connect to drop-down.

Select a primary or supporting goal to align with.

While there’s no limit to how many goals you can link to, you can only connect to goals you have access to view.

What’s the difference?

  • Primary Goal: This is the main goal you're working toward. It represents the overarching objective or high-priority target, providing strategic direction for your team or organization. Think of it as the goal that everything else is working to support.

  • Supporting Goal: Supporting goals are specific, actionable steps or complementary objectives that help drive progress toward the primary goal. While they align with and contribute to achieving the primary goal, their progress does not directly affect the status of the primary goal.

Saving and publishing a goal


Save draft

Click Save draft to save your goal at any stage, with or without complete details. Drafts are visible to your manager, administrator, goal owners, key result owners, and anyone with the visibility settings you’ve chosen.

Publish goal

Once your draft is finalized, click Publish goal. Be aware that published goals cannot be unpublished. Only the goal owner and goal creator can publish a goal.

Tip: 📹 Set performance goals: for employees - (new): Learn how to create and manage SMART goals (new) to support your performance.


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