Goal weight and scoring help you understand how individual goals contribute to overall performance by combining goal importance (weight) with progress and overachievement. This makes performance outcomes clearer, more consistent, and easier to explain in manager and employee conversations.
This feature is designed for organisations using goals to track performance and development, especially where employees have multiple goals with different levels of importance.
To learn how to create and manage goals, visit the Goals section of Humanforce Help.
What problem does this feature solve?
Previously, goal progress and goal weight existed independently. This meant:
All goals appeared equally important, regardless of weight
Progress did not clearly translate into overall performance
Over-achievement was not recognised
Managers lacked a consistent way to assess total goal impact
Goal weight and scoring introduce a transparent scoring model so that:
More important goals contribute more to performance
Progress is measured quantitatively
Exceeding a goal target is recognised and can be rewarded
Total performance can be assessed across all active goals
How goal weight and scoring work
Each goal contributes to performance using three values:
Goal score
Excess goal score
Total goal score
These values are calculated in real time as progress is updated on goals.
Unapproved goals, goals with no weight and goals with no measurements do not contribute to scoring.
Goal score
The goal score reflects achievement up to the target.
Goal score is calculated as:
Goal score = Progress % × Goal weight
This means that a goal with a higher weight will contribute more to the overall score when progress is made.
Excess goal score (overachievement)
The excess goal score recognises performance beyond 100% of the target.
This allows over-achievement to be visible and rewarded, rather than capped.
Excess goal score is calculated as:
Excess goal score = Over-achievement % × Goal weight
Overachievement is calculated separately from standard progress and only applies when a measurement exceeds its target and overachievement is enabled in System Settings.
How goal progress is calculated
Goal progress is calculated from the goal’s measurements.
Each measurement contributes an equal portion of the total goal progress.
For example:
A goal with 2 measurements gives each measurement 50% of the total progress
A goal with 3 measurements gives each measurement 33.33% of the total progress
Progress for each measurement is capped at its allocated percentage for standard progress calculations.
Standard progress calculation
If a measurement meets or exceeds its target, it contributes its full allocated percentage to goal progress.
For example:
If a measurement is worth 50% of the goal and reaches its target, it contributes 50% to goal progress, even if the actual result exceeds the target.
Overachievement calculation
Overachievement recognises how far a measurement goes beyond its target. For each measurement, overachievement is calculated as:
If progress is greater than the target:
((Actual progress ÷ Target) × Measurement percentage) − Measurement percentage
All overachievement values from each measurement are added together to produce the goal’s total overachievement percentage.
Total goal score and aggregated performance
Total goal score is calculated as:
Total goal score = Goal score + Excess goal score
Across an employee’s goals:
Goal scores are added together
Excess goal scores are added together
The combined total represents the overall goal performance
This aggregated view helps managers quickly see how goals contribute to performance outcomes.
These values are calculated for the specific date range you are viewing.
Worked example
A goal has a weight of 35 and has four measurements. Each measurement is worth 25% of the total goal.
Measurement A: Target of 50 with an achievement of 20
Progress = 40%
Contribution to goal progress = 10%
Excess progress = 0%
Measurement B: Target of 20 with an achievement of 200
Progress = capped at 1000%
Contribution to goal progress = 25%
Excess progress = 225%
Measurement C: Target of 50 with an achievement of 60
Progress = capped at 100%
Contribution to goal progress = 25%
Excess progress = 5%
Measurement D: Action Complete
Progress = 100%
Contribution to goal progress = 25%
Excess progress = 0%
Totals
Goal progress: 85%
Excess progress: 230%
Total progress: 315%
Score calculations
Goal score: 85% of 35 = 29.75
Excess goal score: 230% of 35 = 80.5
Total goal score: 110.25
Where you can see goal scores
Goal weight and scoring are displayed across multiple areas of Humanforce HR, including:
Goal overview page on employee profiles
Individual goal views
Performance reports
System Settings (where scoring and weight visibility can be enabled or disabled)
Tooltips explain the formulas used, so users can understand how scores are calculated.
How to enable goal weight and scoring
Goal weight and scoring are controlled from System Settings. When enabled, weighted scoring and overachievement are calculated and displayed across goals and performance views.
Steps
Go to Settings > System Settings > Goals.
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Review the available options and select what you want to display:
Goal Weight and Scoring
Allows users to set the importance of a goal relative to other goals. This can be used to support manual or structured performance assessment based on weighted goals.Show Excess Goal Progress
Shows progress beyond 100% of a measurement’s target as a separate value when viewing goals. This enables overachievement to be recognised and scored.
Save your changes.
When enabled, goal scores, excess goal scores, and total goal scores update automatically as goal progress changes.
Changes to System Settings affect all users in the organisation.Additional information
Scoring updates dynamically as progress changes
Completed goals can contribute both goal score and the excess goal score
Overdue goals continue to reflect their achieved progress
Unapproved goals, goals with no weight and goals with no measurements do not contribute to scoring.
Users with limited access may not be able to view goals.
Contact your administrator if scoring information is not visible.