SMART Objectives for Admin Users¶

About IFS.ai SMART Objectives¶

IFS.ai SMART Objectives uses generative AI to create and enhance employee objectives and supporting activities within the performance management process.

Organizations often face challenges in defining clear, measurable, and aligned objectives, resulting in inefficiencies, low engagement, and inconsistent evaluations. This feature addresses these challenges by generating SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) objectives and improving existing ones using AI.

In practice, you can generate or enhance objective descriptions and activities directly within performance evaluations or overview pages, review the suggestions, and refine them before saving. The quality of the output depends on the accuracy and completeness of job assignments, past objectives, and configured input sources.

Who This Feature Is For and Why It Matters¶

This feature is designed for roles involved in performance management, including:

Line managers defining and reviewing employee objectives
HR administrators managing performance processes
Employees contributing to their performance goals

Use this feature when you need to:¶

Create structured SMART objectives
Improve alignment between employee goals and organizational objectives
Enhance existing objectives or supporting activities
Reduce manual effort in defining objectives and activities

By using this feature, you can:¶

Generate personalized and structured objectives
Improve clarity and consistency of performance goals
Automatically generate or enhance supporting activities
Refine objectives to better align with SMART principles

Where to Find It¶

Access this feature from Performance Evaluation pages in IFS Cloud.

Page: Performance Evaluation Details
- Add Objectives/Activities with AI
Page: Objectives Overview
- Select an objective and use AI to enhance it
Page: Activities Overview
- Select an activity and use AI to enhance it

How the Feature Uses Data¶

The feature evaluates available data to generate or enhance objectives and activities.

The feature uses:¶

User-entered objective description and targets
Based on the definition that is provided and configured at the Input Sources for AI enhanced Objectives and Activities page
The feature can use the following information when enhancing an objective:
- Current job assignment
- Previous objectives
- Cascaded organizational objectives

The feature does not use:¶

Data outside configured input sources
Data unavailable due to missing configuration or access

Understanding the Output¶

The feature generates AI-enhanced and AI-generated content for performance management.

The feature generates:

Enhanced objective descriptions
Generated and enhanced activity descriptions

Output characteristics:¶

Objectives follow SMART principles
Outputs are aligned with job role and organizational goals when context is available
You can regenerate results to receive alternative suggestions
Outputs are editable before saving

Entry-point behavior:¶

Performance Evaluation Details
- Context-aware and personalized output
Overview pages
- Focused enhancement of selected objectives or activities

Enabling and Using the Feature¶

Prerequisites¶

AI Services must be enabled
Sufficient AI tokens must be available
Input sources must be configured (refer to the Related Documentation section)

Generate¶

Performance Evaluation Details

Open the Performance Evaluation Details page
Press Add Objectives/Activities with AI
Enter objective description and target
Press Enhance Objective with AI
Optionally press Next and generate activities

Review and Refine¶

Review AI-generated or enhanced descriptions
Use Regenerate to generate alternative outputs
Adjust objective or activity content
Select or refine activities as required

Apply¶

Review final selections
Press Save to apply changes

Example Actions¶

Based on generated results, you may:

Use generated objectives as a starting point for employee performance goals
Improve or standardize objectives across teams or roles
Add or refine activities to better support defined objectives
Compare and adjust objectives to align with organizational goals

Improving the quality and consistency of job data, objectives, and configured input sources can help improve output relevance over time.

Important to Know¶

Generated output is a suggestion and must be reviewed before use
The AI does not guarantee correctness or completeness
The AI does not replace professional judgment
Company-specific standards and terminology must be applied manually
If no results are returned, verify that required input data is complete and that the prerequisites are met