The OKRs Field Book

Introduction

THIS IS THE FIRST book dedicated to OKRs coaching. This is not an introduction to OKRs. I wrote this book for external and internal coaches looking to take their OKRs coaching skills to the next level.

If you provide OKRs coaching services to your clients, you are an external OKRs coach. This book speaks directly to you. It enables you to better support your clients as they launch OKRs or improve their existing OKRs program.

If you work at an organization that is using (or about to use) OKRs and are tasked with helping your organization deploy OKRs effectively, you are an internal OKRs coach. Although this book addresses external coaches, internal coaches can also benefit.

To get the most from this book, you should be familiar with books such as Radical Focus, by Christina Wodtke; Objectives and Key Results, a book I co‐authored with Paul Niven; and Measure What Matters, by John Doerr. These three books provide an excellent introduction to OKRs. They cover the first layer of information, such as the history and benefits of implementing OKRs, success stories, and the distinction between an objective and a key result. However, OKRs coaches want to go deeper. My colleagues and clients are asking for the answers to these deeper questions. Here are 10 examples (answers to these questions are included in the appendix):

1. How can we scale OKRs across a large organization with hundreds of departments?
2. How can we set team‐level OKRs to ensure cross‐functional alignment rather ...