"compelling goal" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to an objective that someone or some organization is striving to achieve, particularly when the goal is especially urgent or important. For example, "The board of directors has set a compelling goal to increase the company's market share by 15% over the next year."
Having a diverse student body is a compelling goal.
To anyone who believes that diversity in education is a compelling goal in itself (like that noted radical Justice Kennedy), it makes for bleak reading.
But even assuming that diversity is a compelling goal, the court wrote, it still does not necessarily justify a rigid racial preference policy.
Last week a government commission laid part of the blame on the failure of American leaders to declare a compelling goal for the space program.
Policies and programs that provide preventive interventions in high-risk situations before the onset of neglect present a particularly compelling goal.
Multi-modal systems powered by data and transparency are a compelling goal that can get people excited and make the case for investment.
It is time to go outdoors, but only at the risk of missing compelling goals and earnest handshake lines.
The program, sponsored in 1989 by Rep. William F. Goodling (R-Pa)., who later was chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, had admirable, even compelling goals, administration officials said.
Along those lines, it is not obvious that formulating compelling goals is useful.
Clear and compelling goals: On high-performing teams, everyone shares the same understanding about what the team is trying to accomplish - and those goals are important to everyone on the team.
When we work to help teams improve, we focus on five elements that characterize high-performance teams: Clear and compelling goals; defined, known and accepted roles; simple and efficient team processes (ways of working together); clear measures of success, to which everyone is held accountable; and consistently high trust.
