A goal is an outcome you are trying to reach — revenue, delivery, hiring, quality. The point of tracking one in Atwork rather than a slide is that the work sits underneath it, so progress is a fact rather than a claim.
Give it a clear name, an owner, a target and a date. All four matter: a goal with no owner belongs to nobody, and one with no date is a wish.
Link the records that actually move the goal — projects, deals, tasks. Progress can then be read from them instead of typed in by someone the day before a review.
If you cannot say what number would tell you it was achieved, it is not a goal yet.
Five goals for a company and one or two per team is plenty. A list of thirty is a list nobody reads, and progress across thirty things is indistinguishable from no progress.
Put goals on a dashboard next to the work driving them, so the review is one screen: the target, the trend, and what is blocked. That turns a status meeting into a decision meeting.
Related: Dashboards and charts · Tasks and My tasks