Chapter 16
Ten Tips for Creating Effective OKRs
IN THIS CHAPTER
CRAFTing with OKRs
Telling your story of success
Focusing on what matters most
Chances are, if you’re new to OKRs, a few tips on how to write them well will come in handy. You may struggle with aligning your OKRs to the company’s strategy, wrestle with how to make them as specific as possible, or wonder who to involve in the effort. This chapter provides you with ten pointers to improve the OKRs you and your teams write.
Know the Organization’s Strategy
At the end of the day, you’re implementing OKRs to help execute your strategy. Therefore, it’s important that all OKRs created, from top to bottom throughout the organization, align with the strategy, and for that to happen, everyone must first know and understand it. When you have a deep working knowledge of the strategy, you have a much greater likelihood of developing OKRs that are focused, relevant, and measurable.
Because virtually every organization on the planet has some sort of strategic plan, it’s a good bet yours does as well. Hopefully that plan has been widely communicated by your senior leadership team, and they have taken the time and effort to ...
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