Objectives reporting — feature overview

> Note: Your organization may have renamed this feature. If you don't see "Objectives" in your navigation, check with your admin for the name used in your account.

Objectives reporting gives account admins and managers data on objective progress, ownership, and alignment across everyone they have visibility into. The reporting area contains four tabs: Objectives dashboard, Status, Ownership, and Alignment.

Required access: Objectives must be enabled for your organization. Available to: Account admins and managers. Pricing: Perform, Legacy Focus, and Total Platform packages.

Feature Structure

Objectives reporting is organized into four tabs, each providing a distinct view of objective data.

Objectives dashboard tab

The Objectives dashboard tab provides a snapshot of all objectives you have permission to view. It contains three graphs:

Objectives status graph — shows the most recently-set status for all objectives, broken down by timeframe. Status colors: green (on track), orange (behind), red (at risk), grey (no status). Below the graph, a summary table shows the percentage of objectives in each status. Click View next to a status to see all objectives with that status, or click See status report to open the Status tab.
Objectives and Key Results ownership graph — shows the percentage of employees who have objectives and key results assigned versus those who do not.
Objectives alignment graph — shows the percentage of objectives that are aligned to a parent objective versus those that are not.

All three graphs respond to the filters at the top of the page. Available filters: Owner, Objective type, Start date, End date, and Objective state.

Status tab

The Status tab shows all objectives you have permission to view, with a header count of how many are on track, behind, at risk, or have no status. The table supports three views:

Nested view — top-level parent objectives appear in the table. Click + to the left of a parent to expand and see its aligned child objectives.
Flat view — all objectives appear in alphabetical order.
Chart view — top-level parent objectives appear on the left. Click the number to the right of a parent to see its aligned objectives. Each objective's progress bar reflects its status.

Opening an objective by clicking its name navigates to the objective detail page.

Ownership tab

The Ownership tab shows which individuals and groups have objectives and key results assigned, and which do not.

When viewing by individual, the table includes: Owner, Total objectives, Private objectives, Current objectives, Past due objectives, Closed objectives, Key Results (visible when Include key results is selected in filters), and Last seen.

When viewing by group type, the table includes: # of people, Total objectives, Open objectives, Past due objectives, and Closed objectives.

Use the View by dropdown in the top-right corner of the table to switch between individual and group type views. Select one or more rows and click Contact to send a message to the selected owners.

Alignment tab

The Alignment tab shows how many objectives are aligned to a parent objective versus unaligned. Users in 15Five can align their objectives to a department or company objective, creating a parent-child relationship. The summary at the top of the tab shows the count of objectives by status (on track, behind, at risk).

The table supports the same three views as the Status tab: Nested, Flat, and Chart.

What You Can Do

Access and navigate reporting

Work with each report

Understand filters, states, and statuses

Key Rules

Objectives reporting is only available to account admins and managers. Non-manager employees do not have access to the reporting area.
The status graph reflects the most recently-set status for each objective. Objective owners set status during Check-ins or manually on the objective page.
An objective shows no status (grey) when the owner has not set a status since the objective was created.
Archiving an objective preserves its last-known status and completion percentage and prevents further updates. Archived objectives can be unarchived from the Status tab using the Objective state filter.
The Key Results column in the Ownership tab is only visible when Include key results is selected in the filter options.
All four tabs respond to the same set of filters: Owner, Objective type, Start date, End date, and Objective state.

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