What’s Wrong With This OKR? Common OKR Mistakes.

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 – Employee Engagement

The 4 Primary Benefits of OKR – Employee Engagement

We already discussed Focus and Alignment, now let’s turn our lens toward a crucial aspect of any successful OKR Implementation – employee engagement. What is Employee Engagement, Anyway? Employee engagement is a lot like beauty, we all know perfectly well what it is...
Comparing Apples & OKRs – Seriously

Comparing Apples & OKRs – Seriously

An Apple A Day… As a busy consultant with clients around the globe, I spend a lot of nights in hotel rooms. Chances are, if you’re reading this, you’re frequently on the go and log your fair share of time in hotels as well. If that’s the case,...
How to Score OKRs

How to Score OKRs

Scoring OKR Objectives and Key Results is a framework designed to help organizations improve performance by focusing on what matters most. All three elements of that previous sentence are important – framework, improving performance, and what matters most. In this...
OKR – The Basics

OKR – The Basics

What Are OKRs? Objectives and key results (OKR) is a strategic framework that defines and tracks objectives and their outcomes. The OKR framework was created by Intel CEO Andy Grove and brought to Google by venture capitalist John Doerr and has been used by several...