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My Key Result Is Not Necessarily Your Objective!
Cascading OKR Versus Connecting OKR
Three Signs Your OKRs Implementation is in Trouble Before You Start
Simple, but Not Simplistic Read the ever-expanding literature on OKRs and one of the first benefits you’ll find touted by everyone - practitioners and consultants alike – is the model’s simplicity. It appears the organizational world is beginning to turn its...
Why You Must Frame OKRs as a Learning Opportunity
Organizational Learning As an OKRs Coach, I regularly emphasize the essential role of learning - about what the results tell us and how we can use that information to improve our performance in the future. Most people nod encouragingly, but there are inevitably a few...
OKR Transparency? Start With Good Meetings!
360 Degree Transparency One of the biggest benefits of the OKR framework, touted enthusiastically by practitioners and consultants alike, is transparency. In most organizations utilizing the system, the norm is open communication of OKR, with every group or team...
There’s More to OKR than Three Simple Words
There's One in Every Crowd The conference room was fairly dark, only the dim reflection of cove lights on tables and the white background of my slides illuminating the thirty or so people who had gathered to hear me introduce the topic of OKRs to their organization’s...
OKR v. SMART Goals – Which is Smarter?
Are OKRs SMART Goals Re-branded? The conference room was fairly dark, only the dim reflection of cove lights on tables and the white background of my slides illuminating the thirty or so people who had gathered to hear me introduce the topic of OKRs to their...
What’s Wrong With This OKR? Common OKR Mistakes.
The Most Common OKR Mistake Having now reviewed literally thousands of OKRs from organizations around the world, I’ve seen pretty much every mistake that can be made when it comes to writing Objectives and Key Results. A “Top Ten” list of missteps to avoid may be the...
The 4 Primary Benefits of OKR – Stretch Goals!
So far we have explored three of the four primary benefits of OKR - Focus, Alignment, and Engagement. The last and fourth primary benefit of OKR, but certainly not the least, is Stretch Goals. Let’s examine why stretch goals are so important to an organization’s...
Accelerate Your Success With OKR Using These Three Tips!
How Fast is Your Strategy? Like just about everyone else I know, my scarcest resource these days is attention, and if you’re a writer wanting to get on my radar here are a few words that just might penetrate the armor: fast, execution, strategy, agile, and of course...
The 4 Primary Benefits of OKR – Employee Engagement
What does employee engagement look like and why is OKR so important when it comes to engaging the workforce?
You’re Adrift in a Sea of Management Literature, What Should You Read?
An Excess of Access! I recently heard a television executive report that between broadcast networks, cable, and streaming outlets there are over 400 scripted shows running in the U.S. right now. Over 400! How are we supposed to keep up with them? Every time I chat...
The 4 Primary Benefits of OKR – Alignment
Last week we explored the first key benefit of OKR – Focus – leaving us Alignment, Engagement and Stretch, (if you didn’t read the article on Focus, read it here - OKR Focus). This week we are going to dive into Alignment and examine why this is so important to an...