Goal Management

Establishing goals at all levels of a global organization can be a daunting task. Cascading, matrixing, and aligning goals across the organization can be even more challenging. Without goal alignment, employees and groups are disconnected from the vision, strategy, and objectives of the business as a whole. This misalignment can have serious consequences on business plan execution, workforce productivity, and employee engagement.

SumTotal Goal Management software establishes both performance and developmental goals for employees and ensures that individual and group objectives are aligned with the vision and strategy of the entire organization. Built on the industry’s most complete cloud talent management platform, SumTotal Goal Management enables you to:

Improve organizational alignment by aligning and cascading employee goals to organizational objectives and strategies
Consistently identify high performers by monitoring and reporting on goal achievement and progress in real time
Efficiently cascade goals throughout the organization by establishing automated workflows, approval routing, and employee notifications

Key Integration Points:

SumTotal uniquely provides native integrations from Goal Management to other core talent management processes in order to support a holistic, end-to-end cloud talent management strategy.

Career Development: Development goals can be added to an employee’s plan for achievement during the review period
Compensation Management: Performance ratings can be leveraged to establish pay-for-performance plans and reward good performance
Learning Management: Learning activities and courses can be assigned as a component of goal completion
Performance Management: Cascaded or matrixed goals can be used as part of the performance management process
Recruiting & Hiring: Performance goals for new hires can be established and aligned to organizational goals
Workforce Management: Integrated across the SumTotal strategic HCM solution, SumTotal Workforce Management provides powerful tools to effectively manage labor rules, ensure compliance, and control labor costs and expenses
HR Management System (HRMS): As the foundation of SumTotal’s strategic HCM software solution, SumTotal HR Management provides a single source of truth of workforce data for all HCM processes