Manager
Team Goals
You need active Manager access and an assigned team to set a team goal. Goals describe what your assigned direct reports should work toward; they do not create an organization-wide target or replace the evidence shown in Team Overview and Team Reports.
Before you start
Open Goals from the Manager navigation while signed in. If you manage more than one team, a goal is saved for whichever team is selected in the switcher, not for every team at once; you can instead choose to apply the same goal to all of your teams in one step. The form uses the same active direct-report scope as the rest of the Manager surfaces.
Each team has one shared goal. Any primary manager or co-manager of that team can edit it, and the latest save replaces the previous one. Your team members see the goal statement, the progress of the metric you track if you track one, and your planning notes on their own dashboard, so write it for them to read.
- Open Team Goals.
- If a goal already exists, read Current Progress and the Last edited by line first, because another manager of this team may have changed it.
- Confirm that the goal statement is about the assigned team you intend to coach.
- If the goals source cannot load, choose Retry before editing or saving.
Write the goal and focus area
Use Goal Statement for the outcome you want the team to achieve, then choose one Priority Focus Area. Keep the statement specific enough that the team can act on it without turning it into a judgment about a person.
- Enter a non-empty Goal Statement.
- Choose Productivity, Quality, Adoption, Skill Development, or Innovation as the Priority Focus Area.
- Review the statement and focus area before moving to Track Progress With.
Choose how to track progress
Track Progress With uses a fixed metric that Stride already measures for the team. Choose Not tracked (statement only) when you want a qualitative goal; do not type a custom metric or enter progress manually.
- Team adoption rate (%): members count as adopted after completing their assessment and at least one challenge.
- Challenges completed (count): completed challenges counted from the measurement start date, which stays the same when you edit the goal.
- Active participation (%): the share of your team with learning activity inside your organization's active-participation window.
- Average streak (days): the average of your team's current learning streaks.
- Open Track Progress With and select a metric or Not tracked (statement only).
- If you choose a metric, enter a target greater than zero in the matching unit.
- Leave the metric untracked when you do not have a meaningful numeric target.
Note: Current Progress is computed from the selected metric. A saved goal does not become a measured progress result until the source has a confirmed value.
Add planning notes and save
The form includes a 30/60/90 Day Planning Notes card with entries for 30 Days, 60 Days, and 90 Days. These notes are shared context for your team. They are not measured targets, and Stride does not track progress against them.
- Optionally, add a metric and a target value as a planning note for 30 Days.
- Optionally, add a metric and a target value as a planning note for 60 Days.
- Optionally, add a metric and a target value as a planning note for 90 Days.
- Choose Save Goals and wait for the confirmed save before leaving the page.
Tip: After a successful save, Stride returns to the Manager overview. Reopen Team Goals to confirm what was saved. Current Progress appears there only when you track a metric and Stride has a confirmed value. Skip for Now leaves the page without saving.
Set one goal for all your teams
The team switcher appears when you manage more than one team. Choose All teams to see Every Team's Current Goal, a read-only list of what each team has today and who last edited it. The form below the list saves the same goal to every team you manage.
- Choose All teams in the team switcher.
- Read each team's current goal in the list, because applying a goal replaces what each team has today.
- Write the goal statement, choose a focus area, and choose a metric if you want one.
- Choose Apply to All Teams. Stride stays on the page and lists the teams that received the goal after Applied to.
Note: Applying one goal to all teams replaces each team's existing goal, and you appear as the last editor. To change a single team, choose that team in the switcher instead.