Goals

/hcm/me/goals is where you set, track, and align your goals. The engine supports a goal tree — child goals roll up into parent goals with weighted progress, so a team objective surfaces automatically when its contributing personal goals progress. An AI assist parses free-text aspirations into the SMART framework (specific / measurable / achievable / relevant / time-bound) before saving.

TL;DR — Open HCM → Me → Goals. Click New goal, type what you want to achieve in plain language; the AI rewrites it into SMART form. Save. Optionally align it as a child to a parent team goal. Check in periodically as you progress.

Before you start

• Your workspace may have an active goal cycle (quarterly, annual, rolling). The form pre-fills the cycle's start + end.
• For aligned goals (children of a parent), the parent must exist in the system. Managers create team goals; HR creates workspace goals. Your manager can point you to which parents to align under.

Create a goal

1. 1

   Click "New goal"

   The form opens with a free-text input.

2. 2

   Type your aspiration in plain language

   Example: "Get better at code reviews."

3. 3

   AI rewrites as SMART

   The assist parses your input and proposes a SMART version with explicit measure + deadline. Example: "Complete 10 detailed code reviews on team PRs by end of Q3, with at least 80% rated 'helpful' by the reviewee."

4. 4

   Edit if needed

   You're never locked to the AI suggestion; edit any field.

5. 5

   Set weight

   If the goal is one of several, the weight (0-100) tells the rollup how much it contributes to your total goal score.

6. 6

   Optionally align to a parent

   Pick a parent goal (team or workspace) the goal contributes to. Audit log records HCM_GOAL_ALIGNED.

7. 7

   Save

   Audit log records HCM_GOAL_CREATED.

Track progress

The progress bar on each goal can update three ways:

Goal tree mechanics

The engine builds and rolls up a goal tree across employees + teams + workspace. Pure functions handle:

• Build — collect goals + their parent links into a tree.
• Weighted rollup — compute parent progress from children's weights × completion.
• Alignment scoring — measure how much of a child's work feeds the parent (or vice-versa, where a child supports a parent beyond its own goal).
• Weight validation — refuses to commit weights that don't match the cycle's policy.
• Cascade — when a parent is set, propose default children to contributing teams / employees.

Every field, explained

Common gotchas

• "The AI rewrote my goal too aggressively." Edit any field. The AI is a suggestion engine; you're never locked.
• "My weights don't add to 100." Workspace policy decides whether the total must equal 100 or just be ≤ 100. The form surfaces the policy as you build the goal.
• "Parent progress didn't move when I updated my child." Parent rollup runs on a cadence (typically nightly). Wait 24 hours; if it persists, check the alignment is actually saved (the parent's card lists its children).
• "I want to remove an alignment." Open the goal → Remove alignment. The audit log records the change.

Troubleshooting