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.

What do you want to do? Legacy Objectives Enhanced Objectives Enhanced Objectives (WX 2.0)
Create objectives Available Available Available
Review objectives Available Available Available
Edit and delete draft objectives Available Available Available
User interface for WX 2.0 Unavailable Unavailable Available
User interface respects WX branding Available Unavailable Available
Continuous conversations )1 to 1 notes) linked to objectives Unavailable Available Available
Create group objectives Unavailable Available Unavailable
Align objectives with other employees Unavailable Available Available
Add watchers to your objectives Unavailable Available Available
Section to view watched objectives Unavailable Unavailable Available
Assign tasks to objectives Available (milestones) Available Available
Ability to approve objectives Available Available Available
Ability to skip approval for marking tasks as complete Unavailable Unavailable Available
Category & Company Objective fields for group/team goals Unavailable Available Available
Set objective priority (Low/Med/High etc.) Available Available Available
Set weight for objectives Available Available Available
Set score for objective review Unavailable Unavailable Available
HR noticeboards in objectives page Unavailable Unavailable Available
Override field sets (for different policies) Unavailable Unavailable Available
Manager/cross-manager can view team objectives in WX Unavailable Unavailable Available
Manager feed for overview of recent updates to team objectives Unavailable Unavailable Available
Clone objectives Available

Available

Available

Create team objective (bulk assign) Unavailable Available Available (with same policy only)
Feedback: Request feedback (internal/external) Unavailable Available Available
Feedback: Manager View Unavailable Unavailable Available
Feedback: Support for feedback from external people Unavailable Available Available
Feedback: Prompts up to 500 characters Unavailable Available Available
Feedback: Save responses as draft Unavailable Available Available
Feedback: auto-save Unavailable Unavailable Available
Feedback: Field-level help and HR noticeboards Unavailable Available Available

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