OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) is a methodology for goal setting, first developed by Peter Drucker and later built upon by Andy Grove, CEO at Intel. John Doerr, author of "Measure What Matters", also worked at Intel during the time, later became advisor to Google and introduced OKRs in 1999. It's now used by thousands of companies worldwide including Netflix, LinkedIn, Twitter and Airbnb. 


Find out more about OKR. 


The Objective is what you want to achieve and should be inspirational to the whole team or organisation.

The Key results track how to achieve it. Like SMART goals, they should be specific, measurable, and work to a timeline.


How to

  1. Head to your Strategy page
  2. Click on a goal, or create one first
  3. Click Create key result
  4. Give your key result a title (see below for examples)
  5. Click Save
  6. Click the arrow at the end of the row to view and add more details.


You can assign this OKR to a colleague, set its status so other members of your team know what's happening, set a progress slider, and add an actual result and commentary.


Tips

  • Try not to create more than 5 objectives at a time
  • Create 2-5 Key results for each objective
  • Make them short and simple
  • Make them exciting
  • Stretch your team/organisation - if you're reaching 100% of all of your goals, then they are too easy
  • Regularly follow-up - they should not be "set and forget"


Examples


Objective: Land more customers than last quarter

Key Result 1: 50,000 click-throughs on our advert

Key Result 2: Achieve 2,000 signups

Key Result 3: 50% lower bounce rate on our landing page.


Objective: Reduce our carbon emissions to net-zero

Key Result 1: Finish decarbonisation of the final 3 factories

Key Result 2: 100% of employee flights to be carbon-offset

Key Result 3: 60% reduction of employee flights.


Here's an example from Gitlab's CEO:


Objective: CEO: Even prouder to work here

Key Result 1: 7 certifications with more than 10,000 certificates issued

Key Result 2: Graduate 2 internal projects from internal limited to public

Key Result 3: Raise monthly contributors from 80 to 150.


Further reading


https://felipecastro.com/en/okr/what-is-okr/

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