The four primary benefits of OKR are Focus, Alignment, Engagement, and Stretch. In this short article let’s explore the first – Focus. Over the next couple of weeks we will examine each of the additional benefits in greater detail. Focus You would be...
Learn OKR Objectives and Key Results is a management framework designed to help organizations achieve breakthrough results by focusing on what matters most, driving engagement, and aligning employees from top to bottom. Championed by Google, the system is now...
Why Do Employees Leave? According to a survey of seven thousand LinkedIn members across five countries, the primary reason people leave companies is lack of advancement opportunities. Three times as many people cited that rationale over a poor relationship with their...
Simple Without Being Simplistic One of the biggest benefits of the OKRs framework is simplicity. Just four words: Objectives and Key Results, that represent two basic concepts: What do you want to do, and how you’ll know you’ve achieved it? This simple taxonomy is a...
5 Whys To Wisdom Way back in a 1996 Harvard Business Review article authors Jim Collins and Jerry Porras introduced me to the concept of “5 Whys.”[i] The idea is simple: Whenever you’re faced with a challenging situation, ask the question why five times to reveal the...
Keep it Simple One of the biggest benefits of OKRs is that the framework is terminology light. Just three easy to understand words: Objectives and Key Results. This simple vocabulary allows people, even those brand new to the process, to quickly grasp the principles...
