Track your team's goals (for admins)

1. Employees, US contractors, and managers add goals in Gusto.
   • Employees and US contractors can record their individual goals in Gusto.
   • Admins and managers can record goals for themselves, or assign goals to their direct reports.
     • At this time, international contractors cannot create or be assigned a goal.
2. Get progress updates from your team.
   • Admins can set up monthly reminders for employees and US contractors to update the status of their goals.
3. Track progress over time.
   • Admins, managers, employees, and US contractors can provide status updates on their goals at any time.
   • You can use your dashboard to view real-time insights and activity logs—followup with team members as needed.
4. View goals while completing performance reviews.

Reviewers completing performance reviews and employees writing self-evaluations can see historical goal information to reference during the review process.

1. Click the Performance section.
2. On the “Goal Tracking” card, click Go to goal tracking.
3. From the “All goals” tab, click Create a goal.
4. Name the goal—it should be specific, measurable, and attainable.
5. Choose a start date and due date.
   • We’ll email the goal owner a reminder 3 days before the due date so they don’t forget the upcoming deadline.
6. Add any additional details.
7. Select an owner—we’ll default you as the owner, but you can also assign the goal to any employee or US contractor at the company.
   • You can change the owner of a goal later if needed.
8. Click Save goal.

1. Click the Performance section.
2. On the “Goals” title, click Go to goal tracking.
   • You’ll see a list of goals, which can be searched by title.
   • Select a timeframe to see goals from the past one, three, six, or twelve months. You can also click All to see all goals.
3. Click the title of a goal.
4. Scroll to the “Activity” section to see a history of all changes made to the goal.

1. Click the Performance section.
2. On the “Goal Tracking” card, click Go to goal tracking.
3. Click the title of a goal.
   • You’ll see a list of goals, which can be searched by title or owner.
   • Select a timeframe to see goals from the past one, three, six, or twelve months. You can also click All to see all goals.
4. Add a note about what's changed.
5. Select whether the goals is:
   • On track
   • Progressing
   • Off track
6. Click Post update.
7. When a goal is completed, or if it will remain incomplete, click End goal.
   • To delete a goal that is no longer relevant, click Archive. Once you archive this goal, it will no longer appear in your dashboard.

1. Click the Performance section.
2. On the “Goal Tracking” card, click Go to goal tracking.
   • You’ll see a list of goals, which can be searched by title or owner.
   • Select a timeframe to see goals from the past one, three, six, or twelve months. You can also click All to see all goals.
3. Click the title of a goal.
4. Click Edit goal to change the title, description, start/due date for a goal, or the owner.