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# Changing Objective Progress Measurement

## If you want to have an Objective/Goal without Key Results, you can still set the measurement by selecting the Contributors icon while in Edit Objective.

Note: When you Check-in on an objective with no key results, you won't have key results to update but you can check in on overall progress.

**How to set or change your objective progress measurement:**

1. On the top toolbar, click the **Module ![](https://help.inspiresoftware.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-386.png?width=39&name=image-386.png)** button and select **Objectives.**

2. Select an objective to edit or click **Add+ **to add a new objective. For instructions, see [Creating an Individual Objective](https://help.inspiresoftware.com/en/creating-objectives-and-team-objectives?hsLang=en) or [Creating a Team Objective](https://help.inspiresoftware.com/en/creating-a-team-objective?hsLang=en).

Caution: When updating measurement on an existing objective, change affects all activities associated with that objective. Any of your existing activity progress will be reset, and you will need to enter new weight or target values according to the selected measurement type. 

3. Select the Contributors icon.

![contrib button team obj-ss](https://help.inspiresoftware.com/hs-fs/hubfs/contrib%20button%20team%20obj-ss.png?width=670&height=167&name=contrib%20button%20team%20obj-ss.png)

 

**Progress Type**

When Progress Type is set to **Individual**, every contributor has their own target and progress, even though the targets could be equal.  

- For example, if a Sales team has an overall target of $1M starting at $500k, the Senior Sales Representative might take on 350k of the overall target and the junior sale person would get 150k. They would both track their current progress based on the deals that they close on their own.  

![Screenshot 2024-06-17 at 1.27.17 PM](https://help.inspiresoftware.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202024-06-17%20at%201.27.17%20PM.png?width=486&height=331&name=Screenshot%202024-06-17%20at%201.27.17%20PM.png)

When the Progress Type is set to **Shared**, all contributors have the same target and progress and any contributor can update it for the team.  

- Referencing the same Sales team example above, each member of the team would all get credit for any deals that get closed as a whole.

 

**Type**

With Objectives, there is a **Milestone**, a **Carry Forward**, and a **Metric** type. X to Y are intended to be values for the Metric type and for Milestone, you don't always know what your exact starting point is.

- **Milestone** Example: Get a survey out to all of our clients to learn what our new Net Promoter score is.
- **Carry Forward**: A metric or a milestone that you want to advance to a new performance period (something you've already been working on but want to measure moving forward, either starting new or carrying it forward from where it was when the last performance period ended).
- **Metric** Example: Improve our Net Promoter score from 50 to 60.

 

**Measure**

**![Measure](https://help.inspiresoftware.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Measure.png?width=267&height=147&name=Measure.png)**

- Use **Numeric** for tracking the change in: # Units, $ money, # leads, etc.
- Use **Percentage** for anything that needs to be tracked from 0% to 100%
- Use **Activity Completion** for a KR that is measured only by specific activities being completed. This measure can only be used as a Shared Progress Type which means, when any contributor updates an activity within a KR, the progress will automatically be updated.
- Use **Stay At Or Above** to track performance indicators that you aim to maintain above a set target value.
- Use **Stay At Or Below** to track performance indicators that you aim to maintain below a set target value.  
    - When Stay At Or Above/Below is selected, you can optionally add a Threshold value. This value is used to determine if the Key Result is displayed as **On Track**, **Behind**, or** At Risk** and a percentage is calculated when the current Completed value is between the Threshold and Target values. If no Threshold value is set, the KR will always indicate **0% **or **100% **depending on if the current Completed value is at or above (or at or below) the Target value.

Important note when using **Percentage** vs **Numeric** Measure:

Whenever you choose **Percentage** it will always track from 0 to 100%. If you want to track an X to Y percentage that's not 0 to 100%, for example, from 50% to 75%, you need to adjust the Measure to **Numeric** and enter "%" as the Label.

![](https://help.inspiresoftware.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Sep-02-2024-07-32-31-0768-PM.png?width=351&height=362&name=image-png-Sep-02-2024-07-32-31-0768-PM.png)

Don't forget to click the **Apply ![](https://help.inspiresoftware.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-380.png?width=70&height=65&name=image-380.png)** button.

 

**Alignment**

Vertically align the Objective to a corporate key result in a Corporate Strategy using the drop down arrow and selecting vertical alignment.  You will then be presented with any active corporate strategies along with options to filter to find the corporate key result to align to.  Click on the corporate key result and select either Direct or Indirect Alignment. Long term key results can only be indirectly aligned because they are only calculated based on direct alignment from corporate key results within the strategy.  For more information on alignments and calculations, see [this article.](https://help.inspiresoftware.com/en/aligning-an-objective?hsLang=en)

![Objective Alignment no krs](https://help.inspiresoftware.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Objective%20Alignment%20no%20krs.png?width=670&height=335&name=Objective%20Alignment%20no%20krs.png)

 

Don't forget to **Save ![Objective Alignment no krs-1](https://help.inspiresoftware.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Objective%20Alignment%20no%20krs-1.png?width=56&height=37&name=Objective%20Alignment%20no%20krs-1.png)** your Objective after adding or editing measurement and alignment.

 

 

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