Ben on OKRs

How to Implement Team Level OKRs Successfully (Workshop 4 of 4)

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How to optimize team-level OKR workshops.

Avoid the common pitfalls that can inadvertently increase silo effects and learn how to embed alignment into all aspects of your OKRs program.

Ben walks you through how to get your teams going on OKRs by starting with a top-level OKR presentation as context along with OKR theory.

Here's a sample agenda:

Here is a sample agenda that we used with one of our clients:

  • 8:00–9:00 am: Introductions, CEO briefing on OKRs journey
  • 9:00–10:00 am: OKRs theory/refresher and review of top-level OKRs
  • 10:00–11:00 am: Draft team-level OKRs
  • 11:00–12:00 pm: Report backs and idea sharing
  • 12:00–1:00 pm: Lunch
  • 1:00–2:00 pm: Refine OKRs, participants interact outside their team to align on dependencies
  • 2:00–2:45 pm: Report backs
  • 2:45-3:00 pm: Next steps and key takeaways

    • Takeaways for Team-Level Workshops

    • Schedule team-level workshops after defining OKRs teams
    • Include members from multiple functional teams to foster cross-functional alignment
    • Begin with an overview of top-level OKRs to create context

      • Please comment or post questions in this post or even better, request a free 1:1 consult with Ben via Ben@OKRs 

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