OKRs: Aligning Goals Across the Organisation
Overview
OKRs help organisations focus on what matters most and align teams around ambitious, measurable goals. This course explains how to write good objectives and key results, cascade and align them across the organisation, run check-ins and reviews, and avoid the pitfalls that make OKRs fail.
Who should attend
Managers, team leaders, strategy and performance staff, and transformation teams.
Training methodology
Interactive presentations, practical exercises, case studies, group discussions, role-plays where relevant, and a personal action plan that participants apply in their own work.
Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the OKR method and how it differs from KPIs
- Write clear objectives and measurable key results
- Align OKRs vertically and across teams
- Run effective check-ins, reviews and retrospectives
- Plan an OKR rollout in their organisation
Course outline
Day 1Introduction to OKRs
- Origins and principles
- OKRs versus KPIs
- Committed and aspirational OKRs
- Success stories and failures
- Assessment
Day 2Writing OKRs
- Good objectives
- Measurable key results
- Outputs versus outcomes
- Common writing mistakes
- Writing practice
Day 3Alignment
- Company, team and individual OKRs
- Bottom-up and top-down input
- Cross-team dependencies
- Alignment workshop
- Peer review
Day 4Running the OKR Cycle
- Quarterly planning
- Weekly check-ins
- Scoring and grading
- Retrospectives
- Simulation
Day 5Rolling Out OKRs
- Pilot and scale
- Roles and OKR champions
- Tools and software
- Linking to performance appraisal
- Rollout plan
