Source: ElegantHack
- What is your company mission?
- You should already have a mission.
- Take the time to set a company mission
- What is the theme for the year going to be, the one big objective you (as a company) would like to accomplish?
- What are three metrics that would tell you that you had indeed succeeded in that objective ?
- Check:
- Is the Objective inspirational and challenging?
- Are these tough KRs?
- Do you have only a 50/50 chance of making each KR?
- Will it really take a year to do this?
- Does it tie together everyone’s efforts? - What is one big objective toward your company mission that would take the company 3 months to do, and you are only 50% confident you could do?
- Gather ideas for this from team.
- Successful OKRS are set together, not handed down.
- What are three metrics that would tell you that you had indeed succeeded?
- Check:
- Is the Objective inspirational and challenging?
- Are these tough KRs?
- Do you have only a 50/50 chance of making each KR?
- Will it really take an entire quarter to do this?
-Does it tie together everyone’s efforts?
- What Objective and three Key Results will you set to support the company OKR?
- Check:
- Are these things you can do without support of other groups?
- Are your results actually results, or are they tasks you do to get results?
- e.g. Launch a pricing page vs launch a pricing page that has 12% conversion to contact.
- CEO: do you really believe these will take a full quarter and each KR has only a 50/50 chance of success?
- What Objective and three Key Results will you PERSONALLY set to support the company OKR this quarter?
- e.g learn new skills, hire great people, show results in your pet project
- What big projects are needed to make this happen?
- It becomes the roadmap.
- They are tasks
- List as many as you wish
- You can reorder them as often as needed through the quarter to hit the OKRs
- OKRs don’t change (strategy) but projects and priorities do (tactics). Validation
- What steps are taken to make projects happen (priorities) this week!
- will be shared and set weekly in a planning meeting and in email
- P1:
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- P2:
- P2:
- P3:
- will be shared and set weekly in a planning meeting and in email