performance goals
Work success metrics
Performance goals are specific targets set for measuring achievement or productivity, typically in workplace contexts.
They define what success looks like within a given timeframe: Her performance goals included increasing sales by fifteen percent.
Unlike development goals focused on learning, performance goals emphasize measurable outcomes—numbers hit, projects completed, standards met.
Annual reviews often assess employees against their performance goals.
- targetsIntended aims or marks
- objectivesIntended targets or ends
- metricsStandards for assessment
- benchmarksStandards for measuring performance
- KPIsMeasurable performance benchmarks
quotas · stretch targets · milestones · deadlines · outcomes · achievements · moving the needle · evaluations · reviews · appraisals · accountability · productivity · efficiency · results · ambition · drive · stretch · exceed
- goalsaims, objective, objectives, target, targets
- work demandsdeadlines, meetings, tasks, workload, schedules
- onboardingonboarding, first day, employee handbook, welcome packet, welcome kit
- Work Reviewsfeedback session, employee evaluation, self-assessment, peer review, rating
- Education Termslesson plan, curriculum, syllabus, rubric, assessment
- motivationmotivation, drive, motivate, inspire, encouragement
performance goalsaimlessness
Lack of direction
goallessness · purposelessness · drifting · directionlessness · going through the motions
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