Who can create objectives?
Personal objective:
Anyone can create a personal objective!
Department objective:
Department objectives can be created by either:
- Admins only
- Admins and Managers
- All Users
Admins will decide which setting applies to your network.
Organization objective:
Department objectives can be created by either:
- Admins only
- Admins and Managers
Admins will decide which setting applies to your network.
Who can see/view objectives?
By default, objectives set up in 7Geese are set as public. This follows the OKRs philosophy of transparent accountability. However, we understand that sometimes projects and or processes mandate a more sensitive approach to team accomplishments.
There are 4 privacy options:
- Public (all coworkers can see your objective, check-ins, and objective related changes)
- Participants only (If someone is set as a stakeholder, follower, co-owner, is above you in your reporting tree, or is an administrator of your network with content access they are able to see objective related changes)
- Department(s) Only (Coworkers in the assigned department related to the objective have access to the objective and respective changes, regardless if they are an owner, stakeholder, or follower)
- Department(s) and Sub-department(s) (Similar to privacy permissions of department(s) only, but also includes sub-departments assigned)
All options come with the following two permission overrides:
- Reporting managers up your reporting tree will ALWAYS have access to your objectives
- Administrators of your network have visibility into participants/departments/sub-departments only objectives depending on their content visibility settings.
By setting the objective privacy to Participants Only, only your direct reporting tree (those to whom you report and above them), followers, and stakeholders assigned to the objective can access objective details, progress, and status updates.
Departments and sub-department permissions
One benefit to setting up departments with a hierarchy is the way it works with our objective privacy options for department objectives. You can set a department objective to only be visible to users in a specific department, or a department and its sub-departments. With your department hierarchy established, you can easily keep certain objectives private within the groups that need access.
What can owners, stakeholders, and followers do in Objectives?
Owner: This is who is accountable to achieve the objective. When creating new objectives the owner will default to the individual creating the objective. Secondary owners can be added if the objective is shared amongst team members.
Stakeholder: If someone in your team has a stake in the objective you are creating, but is not necessarily an objective owner, you can assign them as a stakeholder. This means they will receive updates on your progress as you check-in, and can watch your success climb even if the objective is set to private.
Follower: Similar to a stakeholder, followers can monitor an objective even if it is set to private. They will receive updates on the objective. Examples of a follower are interested parties who want to stay aligned with your progress.
With each participant level comes a sub-set of permissions related to the objective.
Objective owner
This is who is accountable to achieve the objective. Owners can:
- Edit the objectives details
- Add links and notes
- Add corresponding key results
- Alter weighting of key results
- Edit key results
- Convert a key result to a child objective
- Align the objective to parent or child objectives
- Can check-in on objective progress
- Alter the objective due date
- Change objective privacy to and from public --> participant and or dept specific
- Add status (on or off track)
- Change labels and (if applicable) departments of the objective
- Subscribe to weekly check-in reminders
- Add owners, stakeholders, or followers to the objective
- Share a message on the objective feed
- Duplicate the objective
- Delete the objective
- Close an objective and add a final assessment (expectations met or not)
- Convert a personal objective to departmental level (if permission is established by the network administrator)
Objective stakeholder
If someone in your team has a stake in the objective you are creating, but is not necessarily an objective owner they can be assigned/join as a stakeholder. Stakeholders can:
- Edit the objectives details
- Add links and notes
- Add corresponding key results
- Alter weighting of key results
- Convert a key result to a child objective
- Edit key results
- Align the objective to parent or child objectives
- Alter the objective due date
- Change objective privacy to and from public --> participant only
- Add status (on or off track)
- Can check-in on objective progress
- Change labels and (if applicable) departments of the objective
- Subscribe to weekly check-in reminders
- Share a message on the objective feed
- Duplicate the objective
- Add a final assessment (expectations met or not)
- Convert a personal objective to departmental level (if permission is established by the network administrator)
Objective follower
Similar to a stakeholder, followers can monitor an objective even if it is set to private. They will receive updates on the objective. Followers can:
- Share a message on the objective feed
- Duplicate the objective
Note: Administrators on the platform have access to super-user objective edits and progress updates regardless if they join as part of an objective. Only administrators with content visibility settings have this ability.
Who can check in to an Objective?
Owners and stakeholders can check in to an Objective they belong to. Followers cannot check into an objective. This also includes closing an objective.
How to use labels for Objectives
Labels are a great way to categorize your objectives to help with communicating across the company what is being worked on. There are many reasons to use labels:
- Help identify objectives that are for a specific theme or initiative, such as Engagement
- Help identify specific locations/offices that are working on the objective
- Help identify a cross-functional team that is working on the objective
To get started adding labels to objectives, head over to the Objective Detail page. The label section will appear along the top. A list of labels already used by others, or those pre-loaded by your network administrator will appear.
To filter and see other objectives that are also using the same label, head over to the Objective Explorer via the objectives tab on the navigation bar.
For the example used above, you can now see all the committed to labels appear to the right of the objective since we have chosen to filter by the 'committed' label.
