How to manage goals from Slack

Rhythms

Priorities don't hold still for a whole quarter. A metric gets more ambitious once you see the pipeline, a team reshuffles and someone else owns the work now, the plan changes and the goal should say so. Someone has to catch that and update the goal, usually after a meeting rather than during one.

Rhythms is an AI operating partner. It takes the coordination work off leaders and teams, so the week goes to decisions and people instead.

The short answer: Tell Rhythms what changed, in the channel or a DM: @Rhythms we're raising the Q3 revenue target to $2M. It shows you the edit before anything saves, and it can chase the team's missing check-ins too.

Step 1 — Update a goal as priorities shift

The target got more (or less) ambitious

Say what changed and why. Rhythms updates the metric, not just the number.

Try it: @Rhythms we're raising the Q3 revenue target to $2M, pipeline's ahead of plan

Also works: "drop the activation target to 40%, we cut scope", "push the renewals goal out to Q4".

The owner changed

Reassign it the way you'd tell someone in the room.

Try it: @Rhythms move the onboarding redesign goal to Dana, she's picking it up from Sam

The goal itself needs to say something different

Update the title or description when the plan moves, not just the number.

Try it: @Rhythms rename "Reduce onboarding time" to "Cut onboarding time to under 3 days" and update the description, we scoped it down to just the signup flow

Tip: Say everything that changed in one message. Meetings rarely change one thing, and Rhythms drafts every edit together so you approve the whole set once instead of going goal by goal.

Nothing changes until you confirm. Reply in the thread to adjust anything first.

Step 2 — See what's on track, and what's slipping

Ask instead of opening the grid.

Try it: @Rhythms what's at risk this quarter?

Also works: "show me my goals", "what's slipped since last week?", "how's the revenue team tracking?"

Rhythms answers from the current state of the goal, not a snapshot. Ask a follow-up and it can explain the trend or point to what's behind a status.

Try it: @Rhythms why is the onboarding goal at risk?

Step 3 · optional — Follow up on missing check-ins

Priorities shift, ownership moves, and check-ins fall behind while everyone catches up. Instead of following up person by person, ask Rhythms to do it in a DM, so it lands as a nudge rather than a callout.