
Data Sheet
Saba Goals & Objectives
Benefits
Drive revenues by dynamically aligning the
workforce with growth initiatives and changing
business priorities
Ensure focus on the right activities to drive
both growth and customer satisfaction
Increase manager visibility into performance
execution
Create a performance-driven culture
Features
Set and manage goals and objectives
throughout the organization
Align and cascade goals along people-centric,
organizational, or cross-functional lines
Track measurable (SMART) goal metrics
Make goals and objectives actionable by
associating them directly with specific skills
and learning activities
Update goal progress information quickly and
easily through email
Log performance journal comments and link
them to specific goals
Manage performance-planning processes such
as balanced scorecards, performance plans,
development plans, and MBOs
Facilitate the prioritization of goals and
objectives
Automate the bulk assignment of goals and
plans to teams and organizations
Report on goal and plan achievement,
progress, and status, or create your own ad
hoc reports
Includes embedded career and competency
management capabilities
The industry’s strongest global capabilities,
including support for 26 languages
Choice of delivery models; in the cloud or
on-premise
Keeping groups and individuals aligned with changing business priorities
enables organizations to execute to their fullest potential. However, many
organizations fail to effectively communicate strategy and performance
expectations to their workforce, resulting in misalignment, wasted time
and resources, and lowered productivity. Even those that do set and align
goals often do so just once a year, hampering the organization’s ability to
execute against new business objectives. This failure to proactively manage
performance can also contribute to a culture of blame and distrust that
lowers morale and increases turnover.
Saba® Goals & Objectives is a powerful solution that facilitates the dynamic
alignment of priorities and the ongoing, proactive management of the
performance of both individuals and organizations. With Saba, you can
establish a relevant performance process that aligns both goals and skills with
top priorities, clarifies the metrics for success, increases accountability, and
improves your organization’s ability to execute against its growth initiatives.
Users have a clear line of sight to view how their goal contributes to the success of others.
Dynamic Alignment With Changing Priorities
Saba Goals & Objectives provides the means to connect corporate strategy
with individual execution, ensuring that the workforce is focused on the right
activities. Key objectives and strategies, set by the executive team, can be
cascaded throughout the organization. This ensures that managers and
executives have ongoing visibility into progress against those objectives.
Saba Goals & Objectives ensures alignment with changing priorities by:
Enabling the quick and easy sharing of progress: Whether goal progress
is accessed via your employee portal in one of our easily shared portlets,
or updated right from your email while using your iPad, our Saba Where U
Work approach makes staying up-to-date quick and easy.
Embedding social capabilities to help foster cross-functional alignment:
Achieving goals often requires critical resources from a cross-functional

Data Sheet n Saba Goals & Objectives
team. Only Saba provides innovative initiative management
capabilities to enable the formation of cross-functional
teams around specific goals. Owners of the initiative can
cascade relevant goals to the membership and monitor
the progress of both the initiative and the supporting goals.
Social processes such as chat and community discussions
are embedded in the process as well, ensuring an engaging
process for your workforce.
Flexibility to allow for course changes: Agility is critical to
achieve success. Goal management and performance
planning processes must be flexible and allow for frequent
course corrections not only in the goals themselves, but also
with the associated skills, tasks and learning actions. With
Saba, you can define and track progress toward goals in real
time, refocus attention on new and existing initiatives and
make the course corrections you need in today’s dynamic
economic environment.
Communicate Metrics for Success
Saba Goals & Objectives enables clear definition of priorities
with embedded metrics and development actions and
activities. With Saba’s innovative “My Success Plan,”
individuals see and track all activities (such as goals, skill
requirements, and learning assignments) required for
successful performance through a single dashboard. Activities
can be categorized, weighted, and updated throughout the
performance period to further clarify expectations. At the end
of the performance period, these plans can directly populate
the individual’s performance review, so that the agreed-upon
priorities drive the measurement of success. This process
ensures a more relevant, engaging performance process that
helps drive performance, retention, and alignment.
My Success Plan also brings the concept of integrated
learning and performance management to an entirely new
level. When Saba Learning Suite is enabled, this solution
becomes even more powerful by providing a fully unified view
of performance and development activities including goals,
competencies, courses, certifications, and curricula.
Most importantly, My Success Plan was designed with
process governance in mind. Multiple plan configurations
and workflow choices are supported, and each organization,
geography, or business unit can define the process that
best drives success in their organization. Preconfigured
plan templates for performance, development, learning, and
compliance activities are designed with best practices in mind,
but new plan templates can also be created and configured
by administrators, without employing coding or technical skills.
These templates can support processes such as:
Balanced scorecards
Individual development plans (IDPs)
Management by objectives (MBOs)
Performance improvement plans (PIPs)
Drive Development for Actionable and Continual
Performance Improvement
Deployable as a single, seamless solution, Saba Goals &
Objectives and Saba Learning Suite can provide a unified
view of performance and development. This unified approach
helps organizations take action to close skill gaps and remedy
identified performance problems. This not only leads to betterperforming employees, but also helps drive adoption of both
the performance and learning management processes. Saba
helps the workforce take action by:
Leveraging recommended learning and experts to close
critical competency gaps and improve business performance
Linking learning directly to the competency being developed
Identifying gaps and strengths against the requirements of
current and desired jobs
Managing development initiatives with a personalized My
Success Plan
Saba Goals & Objectives is the ideal environment for
effectively communicating corporate strategy and ensuring
the dynamic alignment necessary for success in today’s
constantly changing markets. Unlike solutions designed
for annual goal setting, Saba’s fluid and ongoing approach
ensures performance processes are more relevant, proactive,
and actionable. Saba Goals & Objectives can help your
organization establish a performance-driven culture, increase
employee engagement, increase retention, and proactively
improve both performance and productivity to ensure the
success of your growth initiatives.
Saba n Power Up Your People
Saba is the premier provider of people systems that enable today’s people-driven enterprises. By combining learning, people management and collaboration
technologies, Saba delivers solutions that help mobilize and engage people to drive new strategies and initiatives, align and connect people to accelerate the
ow of business, and cultivate individual and collective knowhow to achieve exceptional results.
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