Development Goal Library

The development goal library is a repository of reusable development goals. Your organization can use these library goals and enhance the process of assigning development goals. The development goals in the goal library can also be used by the Career Development, Performance Management, and Talent Review work areas.

Use the goal library to define goals consistently and reduce the effort of creating a new goal if similar goals already exist. The content library of the Profile Management work area stores the goal library.

To copy goals from the goal library, managers and employees can search for goals using different criteria such as goal name, and category. HR specialists can also select library goals while mass assigning goals.

Note: In the drill-down mode, you can also search a library goal by legal employer, business unit, department, and job family. Your administrator has to first configure the search parameters to include these values. Your administrator can use these filter attributes to configure the library goal search in the drill-down mode:

HR specialists and administrators can use the Development Goal Library task on the administrator's Career Development page to add a goal to the goal library. Go to My Client Groups > Career Development to view this page.

On the Development Goal Library page, HR specialists and administrators can do these tasks:

• Add library goals.

• Edit library goals.

• Search for goal libraries by using filters such as Status, Available To, Legal Employer, Business Unit, Department, and Job Family.

  Tip: Click the Personalize Filters icon to add other search filter attributes such as Priority, Start Date, and Target Completion Date to your search.

• Edit library goal translations in the supported languages by using the Edit Goal Translation Actions menu item.

• Delete an existing library goal that isn't used anywhere.

Set the Library Goal Status

When the status of a goal is set to Active, it's available to copy. You can set the status of a goal to Inactive, even if workers have copied the goal and are currently using it. If you change the status of the goal to inactive, then it's no longer available for copying. You can make the goal inactive, for example, to edit it, then restore it to Active status to make the edited goal available again.

Decide Who Can Access the Library Goal

When you edit or add a library goal, you select whether to make the goal available to a role. By default, all roles have access to the goal. You can decide whether to give access to the goal only to HR specialists, or also include managers and workers.