Create Employee Performance Goals

Resources

Role of Supervisor

  • Understand the University’s Performance Management process
  • Communicate division, department, and team priorities
  • Establish and communicate clear annual performance expectations with each employee
  • Ensure that every employee has performance goals each year and approve them within Workday
  • Review Goals resources shared above
  • Know how to use Workday and check employee goals periodically to update and ensure accuracy

Role of Human Resources

  • Communicate the annual performance timeline
  • Manage the system to document performance goals
  • Provide training and resources on goal setting, performance management, and Workday

Process Steps

  1. Share annual departmental strategic plans, priorities, and goals with every employee
  2. In partnership with the employee, determine what the employee is accountable to achieve in the year ahead
  3. Ensure that employee goals are aligned to department and division priorities for the year
  4. Show employees how to write and submit measurable/behavioral goals in Workday using SMART goal template (shared in Resources)
  5. Supervisor approves the goals in Workday
  6. Note: Goals can be entered anytime of the year by the employee and the Supervisor. Supervisors can also assign goals to individual employees or to the whole team. Use this job aid to assist.