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Moving the Needle With Lean OKRs
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Moving the Needle With Lean OKRs

by Bart den Haak
November 2021
Intermediate to advanced
330 pages
7h 27m
English
Business Expert Press
Content preview from Moving the Needle With Lean OKRs

CHAPTER 7

Running a Successful OKR Setting Workshop

Chapter Highlights

Three stages of setting OKRs

Facilitation techniques

Setting remote OKRs

I still remember my first OKR setting workshops of my own team. In the back of the conference room, I heard one of my team members talk to his colleague sitting next to him: “This stuff is easy, you describe a goal and slam some metrics in. How hard can this be?”

A few hours later, we were still discussing, arguing, and debating what the objectives should be for this quarter. It all felt chaotic, somehow this goal-setting meeting got out of control, and people randomly suggested objectives, following their gut feelings. We were deep down in discussions about semantics, the objective format, and ...

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