# Managing Initiatives ## Overview {% embed url="" %} Tability lets your team focus on their outcomes, not outputs. But there's still benefits to understanding how the tactical day-to-day work is impacting your key results. Tability lets you show that work and keep your initiatives up to date in a lightweight and relevant way without adding a lot of bulk to your OKR process. {% hint style="info" %} We'll use the term "initiatives" throughout, but you can customise your terminology to fit your process. More details on customising terms [here](/docs/become-a-tability-power-user/features/workspace-settings/customise-terms.md). {% endhint %} ## How to set initiatives All initiatives in Tability must be assigned to a key result. You can create your initiatives under your key results in one of three places: ### When creating the plan After creating a key result, you can hit enter and tab to create initiatives. You can assign the initiative to a member of your team and set a due date for the initiative at this time. If you need a little help coming up with initiatives for your key results, you can also generate them with AI by hitting the **Generate initiatives** button.

### From the plan dashboard If you've already published your plan, you can create your intiatives from the main plan dashboard. Click the **>** to the left of the key result you'd like to assign an initative to and click **+ Add initative.** Here you can add an initiative the same was as above, or you can import multiple initiatives at once (by typing or pasting into the import field— one initiative per line).

If you want to generate initiatives with AI, you can click on the key result you'd like to generate them for, then scroll to the bottom initiatives section to generate them:

### When writing your check-in You can also add initiatives when you are updating your progress. On the right side of the check-in screen, you'll see an initiatives section. You can mark your initiatives as complete by clicking the circle or add or generate new initiatives from that screen as well:

## Updating your initiatives You can update the status of your initiatives from the drop down on the right of the initiative (with the exception of when you're doing a check-in. At that time, initiatives can only be created or marked as complete). The statuses are able to be customised in your admin settings ([more info here](/docs/become-a-tability-power-user/features/workspace-settings/customise-terms.md)).

If you'd like to provide more details (links out to designs or drafts, a description of why something is blocked), you can create a full status update that includes a comment by clicking on the initiative and clicking **New status update**

### The Initiatives tab You can quickly and easily update your initiatives in a few different views from the Initiatives tab as well. The initiatives tab will default to the kanban board view, and you can drag your initiatives from one status to another or click into them for status updates from here.

You can also choose from the Listing view (which will display the initiatives in a list sorted by key result) or a Timeline view (which displays initiatives by due date)

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