Today's Agent Skill: Employee Performance Goal Builder
What It Does
Vague performance reviews ("great attitude, needs improvement on communication") waste everyone's time and leave employees unclear on what success actually looks like. Small business owners often skip formal goal-setting entirely because writing SMART goals for every role feels like a corporate HR exercise they don't have time for. An AI agent can turn a two-sentence role description into a full set of measurable quarterly goals in under a minute.
How It Works
The skill accepts an employee's job title, their main responsibilities, and any specific areas to develop or improve, then writes 4–6 SMART performance goals formatted for a performance review template. It also generates a mid-quarter check-in prompt for a structured progress conversation.
How to Deploy It
Drop the SKILL.md into your agent's skills folder and trigger it with "build performance goals for [job title]." Works in Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and Windsurf. Copy the output into BambooHR (bamboohr.com), Gusto (gusto.com), or a shared Google Doc and share with the employee before their review meeting.
SKILL.md — Ready to Deploy
## Description
Generates 4–6 SMART performance goals for a specific employee role, tailored to their responsibilities and development areas, plus a mid-quarter check-in conversation guide with 5 structured questions.
## Trigger
User types "build performance goals", "write employee goals for [role]", or "create SMART goals for [title]."
## Input
- job_title: Employee's job title (e.g., front desk associate, sales rep, delivery driver)
- main_responsibilities: Brief description of what the employee does day-to-day
- development_areas: Skills or behaviors to improve — optional
- strong_areas: What the employee already does well — optional, for reinforcement goals
- review_period: Quarter or timeframe for the goals (default: Q4 2026)
- business_context: Any relevant business goals or challenges the employee's goals should align with — optional
## Steps
1. Parse the job title and responsibilities to identify 3–4 core performance dimensions (e.g., quality, throughput, customer interaction, reliability).
2. For each dimension, draft one goal that meets SMART criteria:
- Specific: states exactly what will be done
- Measurable: includes a number, percentage, or observable outcome
Copy the full SKILL.md and drop it into your agent's skills directory to activate this skill.