Dynamic Objective Key Results (OKR) Development

Background

Objective Key Results (OKRs) is a goal-setting method that aligns individual, team and organizational purpose, performance and potential in dynamic, aspirational and forward looking way.

Through this workshop, your organization can manage, measure and monitor performance for business improvement, innovation and growth by:

• Clarifying direction
• Establishing focus
• Measuring performance
• Generate commitment and ownership
• Make strategy happen

Using an uncomplicated and practical approach to OKR implementation built on a strong strategic framework, this high hands-on workshop will help you to define and design OKRs that are shared throughout the organization. You will be sharing issues, concerns and learn how to avoid the pitfalls others have faced in implementing OKRs.

This is an intensive two-day program with hands-on exercises and systematic application and adoption.

Workshop objectives

• Understand the fundamentals and foundations of good OKRs and its application
• Understand the real requirements for successful implementation of OKR
• Synchronize, align, integrate and link (S.A.I.L) the organization through strategically and systematically managed OKRs
• Learn the what, why and how of OKRs and the success factors for effective implementation
• Set your organizational and departmental OKRs and understand how to integrate them into your organizational process and habits
• Learn how to cascade from organizational OKRs to department, team and individual OKRs for alignment and engagement
• Use the right conversational dynamics to involve the relevant people and gain buy-in
• Avoid common mistakes in OKR implementation
• Lead your team, project or company using sound business innovation and growth principles to achieve your goals
• Achieve greater strategic focus to steer your OKR-driven value proposition

Key content

Module 1

• The fundamentals and foundations of good OKRs and its application
• Set the rationale for your OKR implementation
• The 5Cs of OKR – context, content, critique, constraint and corrective action
• The OKR cascading process
• The what, why and how of OKR
• Video on dynamic OKR
• Simple case study

Module 2

• Strategic theme review to rethink priorities and focus
• Revisiting or redefining vision, mission and values as the foundation and context for OKR
• What we want, what we don’t want
• Setting the company goals – one year
• Gathering objectives, listing metrics, turning metrics into key results, and agreeing on numbers for your key results

Module 3

• Clarifying and proposing company’s objectives and key results
• Agreeing and adopting company level OKRs
• Proposing departmental based OKRs
• Deliberating and agreeing on departmental OKRs
• Applying the 5Cs systems approach to OKR management

Module 4

• How to cascade to individual OKRs with your team members
• How to translate aspirational goals into concrete action
• Activity, tasks, information management and resourcefulness
• How employees can connect their daily goals and targets to this

Module 5

• The MDRT process – measuring, data sourcing, registering and tabulating process
• Securing commitment through involvement
• Checking for clarity and shared understanding
• Creating the right dynamics and culture for the success of the KPI scorecard
• Using scorecards to drive mindset change and performance enhancement

Module 6

• Ongoing weekly review critique, reinforcement and reentry strategies
• How to identify constraints
• How to take corrective action using simple problem-solving tools
• Using cause and effect analysis on man, method, machine, material, message, monitoring, mindset

Module 7

• Walking through the OKR cycle in reality
• OKR work journey map
• Identifying key touch points
• Management reporting and analysis
• Software options
• The way forward