Privacy of goals is important to ensure confidentiality, protect sensitive information, and respect individual or team preferences.
It allows individuals to set personal goals without unnecessary exposure, fosters a safe and trusted environment for sharing aspirations and challenges, and encourages open communication and collaboration when appropriate.
Goals on Mesh can be Public or Private.
- Public Goals: Public Goals can be viewed by anyone in the entire company. Someone not in your team, can also simply click on your profile and see the Public Goals you're working on.
- Private Goals: Apart from the Goal owner, Private Goals can also be viewed by the owner's manager, manager of the manager and anyone directly upward in the hierarchy chain. For example, if you work in the "Marketing" team, your Goals will be visible,
- Your manager (Head of Marketing),
- Their manager (VP of Marketing) and
- Even their manager (Chief Marketing Officer)
But they will not be visible to let's say VP of Sales or the CTO, as even though they're senior to you, they neither belong to the list of your managers, nor your collaborators or their managers.
You can control the visibility of goals while creating or editing them.
Controlling visibility while creating a goal
Step 1: Once you’re on the Mesh homepage, click on Performance in the top navigation bar.
Step 2: From the dropdown, click on the very first, Goals option. This will open up the "Goals homepage" like below.
Step 3: Click on Add new and select whether you wish to Add objective or Add key result.
Note: Depending on your access to Mesh, you may or may not be able to add an objective.
For the sake of uniformity, let us consider that you choose to add a key result. The "Add Key Result Panel" will open up.
Step 4: Scroll down to the Add Additional Info section. You will be able to find the Visibility field there. By default, the Visibility of the Key Result would be set to Owners, Collaborators and their Managers.
Step 5: You can change the visibility by clicking on the field value as shown below
Controlling visibility while editing a goal
Step 1: Once you’re on the Mesh homepage, click on Performance in the top navigation bar.
Step 2: From the dropdown, click on the very first, Goals option. This will open up the "Goals homepage".
Step 3: Select the goal that you wish to change the visibility settings for, or search for the goal using the Search option.
Step 4: Once selected, the "Edit panel" will open up.
Step 5: Scroll down to the Add Additional Info section. You will be able to find the Visibility field there. You can change the visibility by clicking on the field value as shown below.
Thus, you can use visibility settings to enhance trust, autonomy, and psychological safety, thereby promoting a positive goal-setting culture within the organisation.
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