Sage People has two different types of objectives for performance management processes: Objectives and Enhanced Objectives. If you are not sure which objectives your organization uses, check out this comparison.
The Objectives process enables a manager and a team member to agree, record, and then review one or more activities or tasks that the team member strives to accomplish. Good objectives are SMART: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time bound. Sage People enables you to agree SMART objectives, monitor progress and review how well they have been achieved.
An objective that has a purely financial goal, for example sell $1M worth of product, is better entered as a target.
Best practice for objective setting depends on your organization, and HR may dictate a minimum number of annual objectives. Sage People enables you to enter objectives for any time span that best relates to the task in hand, and to assign any number of objectives to each Team Member. Typically, a Team Member will have between two and six objectives to be achieved over the course of a year, but some job types, such as those which are project based, might have quite different norms. Sage People enables you to use whatever is most appropriate for the job.
Each objective can have one or more milestones associated with it, and progress against each milestone can be separately tracked.
Actions shows team members without any current objectives and objectives due for review.