How do I Align a Goal in Cascade?

Click the goal to open the sidebar > Click the show more and scroll to the bottom > Select the Add Additional Alignment button > Select the plan > Select the goal or focus area > Add Parent

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To align a goal, you will add a parent goal. To have multiple alignments, a goal will have multiple parent goals.

By aligning a goal, this is adding a connection between two goals, or multiple goals, in Cascade.

Select the goal you want to align, so it opens the goal in the right sidebar
Scroll down in the side bar and select 'Show More', which will expand so you can scroll down further
Select Add Additional Alignment
Select the location of the parent goal (you can also type the information)
1. Select the Plan
2. Select the goal or focus area
Click Add Parent icon
This will show 2 parent goals.

The 2 parent goals, or focus areas, allows the goal to align to 2 different parent goals, and possibly 2 different plans.

Why is it important to align goals?

Aligning goals will:

show the link between two goals
connect the goals on snapshots
connects the goals on dashboards
help reduce the workload; by having a goal linked to multiple parent goals, this helps to populate multiple plans or reports, with fewer updates

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This article was written by Shannon Menu.
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