OKR Implementation

This is where ‘the rubber meets the road’. We need ot know how to understand the theory concerning Objectives and Key Results planning (OKRs), but implementation is everything.

Our OKR Implementation service is designed to help teams and organisations enact a new OKR model—or improve your existing one—at every level of your organisation.

Book a call today to implement a tailored, step-by-step plan to align your organisation's goals.

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OKR Implementation

This is where ‘the rubber meets the road’. We need ot know how to understand the theory concerning Objectives and Key Results planning (OKRs), but implementation is everything.

Our OKR Implementation service is designed to help teams and organisations enact a new OKR model—or improve your existing one—at every level of your organisation.

Book a call today to implement a tailored, step-by-step plan to align your organisation's goals.

Let's talk

Why the Need for an
OKR Implementation Plan?

When done right, an OKR Implementation plan engages your entire team in working toward the overall goals of the business while giving them feedback to help them see the tangible day-to-day progress toward these objectives. Implementing OKRs improves and supports teams by establishing new behaviours around how they approach their work, resulting in a strategically aligned and outcomes-focused organisation.

Here are some of the common problems that can be improved by using OKR implementation steps:

Lack of communication: When communication channels are unclear and everyone is looking in different directions, this may lead to a disconnected and misaligned work culture. OKR implementation brings both sides together, working on common goals and objectives with free and open communication.
Delegating tasks: All team members have a clear understanding of their tasks and responsibilities, so there's no more confusion about who does what.
Poor teamwork/Team conflict: Successful implementation of OKR gives a space for teams to problem solve and work together to find solutions.
Employee engagement: A sense of accomplishment is provided by measurable goals at all levels, enabling team members to track their own outcomes.
Inadequate feedback: When you implement OKRs across your organisation, they act as a pulse check for understanding progress and changing course when necessary.

Who Needs Help Implementing OKRs?

OKR implementation is designed for leaders at every level of your organisation, including the CEO, Executives, Leaders, Team and Project Managers, Directors, and other responsible team members.

Why would any help be needed?

OKR can be tricky to master.
Management has overall objectives to attain but often gets enmeshed in solving the problems of the business's day-to-day running.
A fresh and experienced viewpoint can bring new insights and accelerate the successful implementation of OKRs.
As a leader, you need to unlock your full strategic potential without wasting time figuring out how.

If your job requires you to oversee improvement and efficiency in your area’s workflow to achieve the desired outcomes and results, let’s talk.

How We Help with the OKR Implementation

At OKR Quickstart, we tailor our service for organisations based on your exact needs. We work with specific team members by providing an OKR implementation guide with a step-by-step plan. Our OKR implementation steps include:

Strategise

Our OKR implementation plan begins with understanding the purpose and problems of the business, clarifying why it’s vital to use OKR—and to use it now—and outlining a compelling narrative for change.

Influence

The OKR implementation timeline takes a tailored approach, including identifying the key influencers on the team and creating awareness of OKR and its importance.

Learn the OKR Framework

To implement OKRs effectively, we provide OKR training, case studies, discussion forums and share related success stories.

OKR Experiment

You need to know before you go. For the successful implementation of OKR throughout the entire group, we need to start small. We focus on one team or function and create one OKR per team. That way, we can build in quick wins for that team, then share and build it out to other areas.

Execute & Embed

As we roll out our OKR implementation across the organisation, we ensure that all actions, activities and initiatives are linked to the OKR. Problems and misalignments are addressed through a weekly confidence score.

Focus on continuous improvement

Implementing OKRs involves the celebration of wins. At the end of the cycle, we conduct a score and retrospective session. We also help ensure that any incentives that were introduced do not disrupt the OKR.

Outcomes & Benefits To Our OKR Implementation Timeline

OKR implementation steps involve setting measurable goals and devising a strategy to achieve concrete, measurable outcomes. What will your organisation's team members learn and achieve during the OKR implementation plan?

How to set ambitious objectives that forward the vision and purposes of the company.
How to align the various factions within the team into a united front by sharing objectives and providing a framework to reach them.
Isolating the essential goals during OKR implementation to lessen the distractions and assign resources to the most important areas.
Leveraging the use of quarterly OKR cycles keeps the team motivated, fresh and winning.
By encouraging innovation, team members learn to think ‘outside the box’ and to propose new ideas and methods to achieve their outcomes.
A primary goal of OKR implementation is to build new healthy habits within your teams.

Let’s work together to quickly and effectively implement OKRs throughout your team.

What’s Covered With The OKR Implementation Service

What are the priorities? Where do we need to focus? This is why our OKR implementation service begins by consulting with the leaders, individuals and teams throughout the entire organisation. Then, we tailor our service to your specific needs, overall vision and required timelines for your operations. Here’s what we cover:

Getting into action and building momentum with our intensive OKR launch sessions, including weekly OKR coaching and regular tracking of progress.
One-on-one coaching to implement OKRs whenever required
We provide Monthly Executive Workouts on specific topics, such as product delivery, marketing and sales, scaling teams, etc.
You’ll receive access to our business academy.
Quarterly planning intensives to boost your OKR implementation steps.

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Other Helpful Tools & Resources

Your OKR implementation requires know-how, assistance … and a good cheat sheet! That’s why OKR Quickstart offers the kits, checklists, templates and other tools and resources to assist your successful implementation of OKR.

OKR Cheat Sheet

The OKR Cheatsheet brings the core concepts into a simple one pager. Bring it to your next OKR workshop to make OKR setting easy for your team!

Get the cheat sheet

OKR Facilitation Kit

Use the OKR facilitation kit to confidently run your next OKR workshop, create awesome OKRs, and make it a blast for your team.

Get the kit

OKR Setting Checklist

Rock your next OKR cycle by following this checklist to create alignment without a top down approach.

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OKR Confidence
Scoring Template

Use this template to capture and score your team's Key Result confidence scores.

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Latest reading

Knowledge is power, and we’ve provided a series of articles as a comprehensive OKR implementation guide. Visit our OKR Blog page to explore the most common problems and solutions when implementing OKRs.