The Manager Role

As a manager, you are incredibly busy, but we think there's little (maybe nothing) more worthy of everyone's time than establishing what the team's priorities are, ensuring everyone is working together to achieve them, and communicating roadblocks along the way.

Creating & Managing Goals

As a manager in CEO-S Software, you'll kick off your team's goal-setting process each quarter. When creating your team goals, you're setting the direction for everyone and clarifying the priorities that everyone needs to focus on.

By aligning your department goals to the company goals, you help ensure that the work of your team directly influences the organization's ability to meet its larger business objectives.

Set a weekly cadence to view goal updates and follow up with any employees who are not consistently maintaining their goals.

Manager Functions & Permissions

Managers' capabilities within CEO-S Software include the following:

adding employees to your organization
managing who employees report to
reading and understanding the Strategy set by the CEO
creating goals aligned with your manager's goals or other department goals
approving (or requesting changes to) your employees' goals
changing who owns goals (reassigning goals)
changing how goals align to one another
commenting on your employees' goals
monitoring how goal predictions are trending
documenting your 1:1s with each of your employees
completing appraisals for each of your employees each quarter
viewing every employee's appraisal in your chain of command

Be sure to look out for reminders and email notifications from CEO-S Software. These will alert you to activities, including your team submitting their goals to you for approval.