Ideas on goals, teams, and getting things done

Stories and practical guides from the Goalscape team and community — from high-level OKRs to personal goal setting, with field reports from Olympic teams, enterprise PMOs, and everyone in between.

· AI · Claude

Connect Goalscape to Claude — Your AI Partner

Connect Goalscape to Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant, and let it see, understand, and work on your goals directly — not advice, not suggestions, but actual work, completed in real time while you stay in the driver's seat.

· Leadership · Performance

Value-Based Leadership

Why Aligning Goals with Personal Values Drives Motivation and Achievement Introduction Why do some goals spark motivation and commitment, while others…

· Leadership · Performance

Remote vs. Hybrid? It's about the Goals, Stupid

Just like the US Elections infamously are “About the Economy, Stupid,” the discussion about remote vs. hybrid may just be “About the Goals, Stupid.” I…

· Performance

David Allen Talks Getting Things Done

David Allen explores how Getting Things Done tools like Goalscape help users organize complex goals, maintain clarity, and make consistent progress.

· News

Top Goal Setting Tips from the Experts

Watch Marcus Baur discuss the power of goals with goal-setting guru Brian Tracy on Greg Voisen’s ‘Inside Personal Growth’ podcast.

· Features · Light Mode

Lighter, Brighter, Faster Goalscape

Explore the latest enhancements to Goalscape's unique UI for improved performance, clarity and usability. Watch our video summary for more insights.

· Collaboration · Leadership

Set Personal Goals for Global Change

Discover how setting personal goals can contribute to achieving global goals for Sustainable Development and make a difference in the world today.

· Best Practice · Coaching

Master Goal Coaching Accelerator Session

Unlock Your Potential with Goal Coaching Any Olympic athlete knows that winning requires hard work and smart coaching . It is no different in life and…

· Features · Tips

Import New Goals from Anywhere

You can Import any Goal- or Work-Breakdown Structure into Goalscape, from any source, in seconds. This could save you a lot of work! Watch this video …

· Leadership · Performance

See the Big Picture: Goalscape Best Practices

Many people have asked us for best practice advice to make the most of Goalscape. So we came up with a simple iterative process that will help you to …

· Leadership · Performance

Best Motivation and Productivity Hack Ever

Using the Science of Motivation to Overcome the Middle Slump Ever noticed how starting a new project is like launching a rocket – all excitement and r…

· Case Studies · Collaboration

ActivateFuture Teams Up With Goalscape!

We've got some exciting updates for you. We're always on the hunt for tools and partnerships that fuel change, and today, we're absolutely thrilled to…

· Alarm Clocks · Collaboration

Gantt Chart - Timeline View

The Goalscape Gantt View and other 'business' options are released to all our users for an initial beta test. Later they may be transferred to a busin…

· Attachments · Collaboration

Drop-In Attachments

You can attach all the background details about any goal, together with all the information required to achieve it, right where you need it. Simply dr…

· Collaboration · Features

Make your Goalscape projects Public

Share the holistic overview As well as sharing your goalscapes Privately, you can make them Public, which allows anyone to view them (no login require…

· Features · Goal-Focused communication

Custom Notes and DOCX Export

Goalscape supports Custom Notes and and Export options include downloading goalscapes as Microsoft Word (.docx) documents. Custom Notes Tabs Click the…

· Collaboration · Goal-Focused communication

Goalscape Integrated into Microsoft Teams

Goalscape is now fully integrated into Microsoft Teams. The Goalscape Teams App is in the Microsoft Teams Appstore: you can add the app either in the …

· Collaboration · Engagement

Boost Engagement – Make Goals Meaningful

Many people feel numb and disconnected at work. When it comes to doing something that makes lives better every day, shockingly, on average only about …

· Leadership · Tips

Use Goalscape's Visual Overview in Reports

It's really easy to use Goalscape to present your goals and plans in a visual way! Watch the video below: it describes how to embed an image of your G…

· Collaboration · Prioritization Software

Project Prioritization Software for Teams

One of the biggest issues we’ve found with using Excel or even a to-do checklist for project prioritization is that you can’t visually deduce (in less…

· Leadership · Performance

Love + Work - A Paradigm Shift in Goal Setting

For many years, I have been asking myself  – and others around me – why some people (like Olympic athletes) are highly engaged in what they do ev…

· Collaboration · Communication

The Best Project Management Communication Tools

Asana, Trello, Basecamp, and Wrike are all great for general project management. However, they aren’t great communication tools. Sure, you may be able…

· Collaboration · Comments

Streamline Communication with Goal Comments

Goalscape has always provided clarity on your goals. Now it can also be the basis for Goal-Focused Communication – and it could revolutionize your wor…

· Progress Tracking · Reviews

The Best Visual Goal Trackers - Free and Paid

Explore the top visual goal trackers for effective planning and management, catering to business owners seeking simplicity and efficiency.

· Download · Export

Download Reports and Export Goal Map Image 

This video explains the Download and Export function and how to use the Goalscape goal map image in presentations and documents. If you have any quest…

· Color · Features

Better Focus, Easier Coloring 

This video explains the selection criteria and customization options in the Focus sidebar – and how to color-code your goals. If you have any que…

· Case Studies · Collaboration

ergovia Runs Management by OKR with Goalscape

Using Objectives and Key Results for Project and Team Management ergovia, a provider of software and services for the documentation of individual educ…

· Case Studies · Case Study

How a Top Sports Team Upgraded Its Coaching

Behind the Scenes of Success in Professional Sports In competitive sports, many factors play into the performance curve of players and the success of …

· Collaboration · Leadership

Goalscape Playchart: Management by Objectives

Management by OKR (Objectives and Key Results): a visual guide to achieving business and personal goals. The big picture overview of the shared challe…

· Next · Now

Goalscape Web App Intro and Best Practice Tips

This is a quick run-through of Goalscape's main features, with some best practice tips for planning and prioritizing , then using Focus to get things …

· Features · News

Visual Goal Management Software: New Web App

Leading goal tracker gets major upgrade “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Tony Robbins Many business lead…

· Features · Migrating projects

Migrating Goalscape Desktop Projects to the Web

If you have used the legacy Desktop app to create Goalscape projects, they will have been saved (as .gsp files) on the hard drive of the machine on wh…

· Collaboration · Leadership

Optimizing Team Performance: a Guide to OKRs

Managing teams with Objectives and Key results (OKRs) has become really popular all over the world, especially since Google's stellar ascent, which ha…

· Collaboration · Focus

Why FAST Goal Setting Beats SMART Goals

The Key to Olympic Level Workplace Motivation Business leaders recognize that motivation is key to success, yet most organizations are terrible at it!…

· Collaboration

Objectives and Key Results: Goals like Google

I recently stumbled across a goal-setting process called OKR which stands for Objectives and Key Results. I wish I had done so earlier. OKRs are used …

· News

Patent Approved for the Goalscape Goal Map

We are delighted to announce that on July 14, 2015 we received formal approval of our application for a patent on the Goalscape goal map format and so…

· Collaboration · Goal Management

High-Level Strategy: Defining Your Team Goals

Discover how to define a high level strategy using Goalscape: enhance clarity and understanding to boost engagement in team working.

· Performance

Competitive Sports: Gold Medal Goal Setting

Sydney 2000 was the first time I coached Olympic Gold Medal winning athletes. Thomas Johanson and Jyrki Järvi from Finland won the 49er class event by…

· Collaboration

Why the Visual Overview Is Vital for Success

As a professional sailor I desperately wanted compete at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. I had already done quite well and had won a few national regattas; …

· Performance

Goalscaping Is Better than Mindmapping

When it comes to defining and achieving goals, Goalscape is far superior to mindmapping. Just look at the two screenshots below: they represent the sa…

· Leadership

Life Sucks Without Proper Goal Setting

...is surely not your motto, otherwise you would not have ended up on a website about goal-setting. But according to David Logan from the University o…