Overview
AI Quality Feedback is Workpath's intelligent goal assessment system that automatically evaluates your Goals and Key Results against established OKR best practices. The AI analyzes your goals across multiple quality dimensions and provides specific, actionable feedback to help you create more effective objectives.
This feature acts as your personal OKR coach, ensuring your goals are outcome-oriented, customer-centric, measurable, and aligned with proven methodologies for successful strategy execution.
Key Benefits:
- Get instant quality assessment of your Goals and Key Results
- Receive specific, actionable improvement suggestions
- Ensure compliance with OKR best practices and methodologies
- Identify potential issues before goal activation
- Learn OKR principles through practical feedback
Key Workflows & How-tos
Running a Quality Check
Access the Quality Checker
- Navigate to your drafting space
- Select a Goal and look for the "Quality Checklist" section on the right
Trigger Quality Analysis
- Wait a few seconds after you've stopped typing for the AI to analyze your goal
- The system evaluates both the Goal and all associated Key Results
Review Quality Results
- View the overall quality score and status indicators
- Each quality criterion shows a status: ✅ Met, ⚠️ Needs Attention, or ⏳ Pending
- Click on specific criteria to see detailed feedback and suggestions
Understanding Quality Criteria
For Goals (Objectives):
- Easy to Understand: Clear, concise language that any stakeholder can comprehend
- Qualitative: Directional and aspirational rather than metric-focused
- Outcome-Oriented: Focuses on results and value delivered, not activities
- Customer-Centric: Clearly identifies who benefits and how
For Key Results:
- Measures the Objective: Directly connects to and measures goal achievement
- Short and Concise: Clear, specific language without unnecessary complexity
- Quantitative: Includes specific metrics, targets, and measurable outcomes
- Focuses on Outcomes: Measures impact and results, not just task completion
Acting on Quality Feedback
Review Detailed Feedback
- Read the AI's specific suggestions for each criterion
- Understand why certain aspects need improvement
- Note the positive aspects that are already working well
Make Targeted Improvements
- Edit your Goal title and description based on feedback
- Refine Key Results to be more specific and measurable
- Ensure customer focus is clearly articulated
- Simplify language and remove jargon where possible
Re-run Quality Check
- After making changes, run the quality checker again
- Verify that improvements have addressed the identified issues
- Continue iterating until you achieve a high quality score
Best Practices for High-Quality Goals
Goal Writing Tips:
- Start with the customer or beneficiary in mind
- Describe the value they'll receive and the impact it creates
- Use active voice and clear, simple language
- Avoid internal jargon and technical terms
- Keep it to 2-3 sentences maximum
Key Result Writing Tips:
- Include specific numbers, percentages, or measurable targets
- Connect directly to promises made in the Goal
- Focus on outcomes customers can experience
- Avoid task-oriented metrics
- Provide both baseline and target when possible
FAQs
Q: How accurate is the AI Quality Feedback? A: The AI follows Workpath's proven OKR methodology and evaluates goals against established best practices. While it provides excellent guidance, always use your judgment for context-specific situations.
Q: Can I disagree with the AI's assessment? A: Absolutely. The AI provides recommendations based on general best practices, but you understand your specific context best. Use the feedback as guidance while making decisions that fit your situation.
Q: What happens if I don't fix quality issues? A: There are no restrictions on activating goals with quality issues. The feedback is designed to help you improve effectiveness, not to block progress. However, addressing quality issues typically leads to better goal outcomes.
Q: Does the quality check consider my industry or team type? A: The AI applies universal OKR principles but doesn't customize feedback for specific industries.
Q: Can the AI fix my goals automatically? A: No, the AI only provides feedback and suggestions. You maintain full control over goal editing and improvements. Use the AI Goal Drafting feature if you want the AI to generate new goal versions.
Q: What's the difference between quality criteria for Goals vs. Key Results? A: Goals should be qualitative, customer-focused, and outcome-oriented, while Key Results should be quantitative, specific, and directly measurable. The AI evaluates each against their respective criteria.
Q: Does the quality checker work in languages other than English? A: The quality checker primarily operates in English but can provide basic feedback for German goals. For best results, consider writing goals in English or getting initial feedback in English before translating.
Q: Can I see quality scores for my team's goals? A: Quality scoring is typically visible at the individual goal level. Check with your Workpath administrator about team-level quality reporting and analytics.
Q: How does this integrate with other AI features? A: Quality Feedback works excellently with AI Goal Drafting - use drafting to generate initial goals, then use quality feedback to refine them. The general AI Agent can explain the reasoning behind quality principles.