OKRs Book
“A must-read for any business leader.”
“Written by two renowned experts in the field, this is the essential OKRs handbook.”
“Objectives and Key Results is the first full-fledged reference guide on Objectives and Key Results, a critical thinking framework designed to help organizations create value through focus, alignment, and better communication.”
Everything you need to implement Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) effectively.
Objectives and Key Results is the first full-fledged reference guide on Objectives and Key Results, a critical thinking framework designed to help organizations create value through focus, alignment, and better communication. Written by two leading OKRs consultants and researchers, this book provides a one-stop resource for organizations looking to quantify qualitative goals and ensure each team focuses their efforts to make measureable progress on their most important goals. You’ll learn how OKRs came to be and how leading companies use them every day to help teams and employees stretch their thinking about what’s possible, build their goal-setting muscles and achieve results that reflect their full potential. From the basic framework to a detailed dissection of best practices, this informative guide walks you through real-world implementations to help you get the most out of OKRs.
OKRs help employees work together, focus effort, and drive the organization forward. Key results are used to define what it means to achieve broad, qualitative goals, and imperatives like “do it better” are transformed into clear, measurable markers. From the framework’s inception in the 1980s to its popularity in today’s hyper-competitive environment, OKRs make work more engaging and feature frequent feedback cycles that enable workers to see the progress they make at work each and every day. This book shows you everything you need to know to implement OKRs effectively.
Understand the basics of OKRs and their day-to-day use:
- Learn how to gain the executive support critical to a successful implementation
- Maintain an effective program with key assessment tips
- Tailor the OKRs framework to your organization’s needs
- Objectives and Key Results is your key resource for designing, planning, implementing, and maintaining your OKRs program for sustainable company-wide success.
Paul Niven makes the process of learning and implementing these tools seamless. And his storytelling during staff trainings makes a typically dry subject of Performance Measurement very enjoyable and motivating.
“We have been thrilled with the consulting from OKRsTraining.com. Everyone was engaged with the OKR concept from the beginning, but its so logical, we found it was easy to get tripped up on nuances. When this started taking off for us was when we had OKRsTraining.com give us some follow up training as a group, then work directly with myself and the CEO to improve the top level OKRs, then provide coaching sessions with each leader initially. OKRsTraining.com was able to suggest a subtle change to each one of the OKRs that improved the measurements and tied them together more tightly. When we came back together as a team for our quarterly kickoff, it was highly leveraged and everyone is enthusiastically on board. Just because the OKR concept is simple, like most great things, the power is in getting the small things right. OKRsTraining.com helped us do that and its made all the difference.”
We engaged OKRsTraining.com to lead an OKRs session at our recent offsite, and everyone felt it was one of our best ever. They did a great job of keeping us focused and guiding us through the entire OKRs process. And the best part is that we actually came out of the offsite with our next quarter OKRs drafted.
Finding the right approach to OKRs is one of the keys in getting them adopted. OKRsTraining.com helped us figure out a solution that worked for us, and what we were looking to achieve with OKRs. They were a strategic partner, helping us to roll out the right program.
Paul Niven is our trusted Performance Management coach, and has been instrumental in helping us create a strategy execution system that focuses both staff and subcontractors on our key strategic objectives.
Performance Management excellence is as complex as it is critical to maintaining a company’s competitive edge and delivering long-term sustainable growth. Paul Niven’s leadership provides you with the guidance and change management necessary to successfully implement your management system.
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