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What are Behavior Tracking OKRs?
The OKR acronym stands for Objectives and Key Results. It's a goal-setting framework that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s, and it became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s. OKRs helps teams has a shared language to set ambitious goals and track progress towards them.
OKRs are quickly gaining popularity as a goal-setting framework. But, it's not always easy to know how to write your goals, especially if it's your first time using OKRs.
To aid you in setting your goals, we have compiled a collection of OKR examples customized for Behavior Tracking. Take a look at the templates below for inspiration and guidance.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.
The best tools for writing perfect Behavior Tracking OKRs
Here are 2 tools that can help you draft your OKRs in no time.
Tability AI: to generate OKRs based on a prompt
Tability AI allows you to describe your goals in a prompt, and generate a fully editable OKR template in seconds.
- 1. Create a Tability account
- 2. Click on the Generate goals using AI
- 3. Describe your goals in a prompt
- 4. Get your fully editable OKR template
- 5. Publish to start tracking progress and get automated OKR dashboards
Watch the video below to see it in action 👇
Tability Feedback: to improve existing OKRs
You can use Tability's AI feedback to improve your OKRs if you already have existing goals.
- 1. Create your Tability account
- 2. Add your existing OKRs (you can import them from a spreadsheet)
- 3. Click on Generate analysis
- 4. Review the suggestions and decide to accept or dismiss them
- 5. Publish to start tracking progress and get automated OKR dashboards
Tability will scan your OKRs and offer different suggestions to improve them. This can range from a small rewrite of a statement to make it clearer to a complete rewrite of the entire OKR.
Behavior Tracking OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different Behavior Tracking Objectives and Key Results. We've included strategic initiatives in our templates to give you a better idea of the different between the key results (how we measure progress), and the initiatives (what we do to achieve the results).
Hope you'll find this helpful!
OKRs to overcome self-defeating behaviors to successfully complete a project
ObjectiveOvercome self-defeating behaviors to successfully complete a project
KRAttend 5 sessions of counseling or coaching to address self-defeating patterns
Research and identify suitable counselors or coaches- Schedule appointments for 5 coaching or counseling sessions
- Attend each scheduled session diligently
- KRImplement a daily tracking system for work progress on the project by week 2
- Establish key project milestones for daily monitoring
- Train all team members to utilize this system
- Implement a system for daily progress tracking
- KRDevote an uninterrupted 2-hour block each day solely to the project progress
- Minimize interruptions: turn off notifications
- Schedule a daily 2-hour block for project advancement
- Evaluate and record daily project progress
OKRs to consistently track and record eight distinct behaviors weekly
- ObjectiveConsistently track and record eight distinct behaviors weekly
- KRAchieve 100% accuracy in weekly records for all outlined behaviors
- Do weekly reviews and corrections of records
- Digitalize records to reduce human error
- Create a daily checklist for monitoring outlined behaviors
- KRIdentify and define 8 specific behaviors to monitor by end of first week
- Clearly define each selected behavior
- Narrow down the list to specific 8 behaviors
- Research and list potential behaviors to monitor
- KREstablish a habit of documenting behavioral outcomes each day without fail
- Create a standard format for documenting behaviors
- Set a daily reminder to track behavioral outcomes
- Review and refine documentation process weekly
Behavior Tracking OKR best practices
Generally speaking, your objectives should be ambitious yet achievable, and your key results should be measurable and time-bound (using the SMART framework can be helpful). It is also recommended to list strategic initiatives under your key results, as it'll help you avoid the common mistake of listing projects in your KRs.
Here are a couple of best practices extracted from our OKR implementation guide 👇
Tip #1: Limit the number of key results
Focus can only be achieve by limiting the number of competing priorities. It is crucial that you take the time to identify where you need to move the needle, and avoid adding business-as-usual activities to your OKRs.
We recommend having 3-4 objectives, and 3-4 key results per objective. A platform like Tability can run audits on your data to help you identify the plans that have too many goals.
Tip #2: Commit to weekly OKR check-ins
Having good goals is only half the effort. You'll get significant more value from your OKRs if you commit to a weekly check-in process.
Being able to see trends for your key results will also keep yourself honest.
Tip #3: No more than 2 yellow statuses in a row
Yes, this is another tip for goal-tracking instead of goal-setting (but you'll get plenty of OKR examples above). But, once you have your goals defined, it will be your ability to keep the right sense of urgency that will make the difference.
As a rule of thumb, it's best to avoid having more than 2 yellow/at risk statuses in a row.
Make a call on the 3rd update. You should be either back on track, or off track. This sounds harsh but it's the best way to signal risks early enough to fix things.
Save hours with automated OKR dashboards
OKRs without regular progress updates are just KPIs. You'll need to update progress on your OKRs every week to get the full benefits from the framework. Reviewing progress periodically has several advantages:
- It brings the goals back to the top of the mind
- It will highlight poorly set OKRs
- It will surface execution risks
- It improves transparency and accountability
Most teams should start with a spreadsheet if they're using OKRs for the first time. Then, you can move to Tability to save time with automated OKR dashboards, data connectors, and actionable insights.
How to get Tability dashboards:
- 1. Create a Tability account
- 2. Use the importers to add your OKRs (works with any spreadsheet or doc)
- 3. Publish your OKR plan
That's it! Tability will instantly get access to 10+ dashboards to monitor progress, visualise trends, and identify risks early.
More Behavior Tracking OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
- OKRs to successfully transition from monolith to microservices architecture
- OKRs to enhance proficiency in speaker management and resume writing
- OKRs to minimize unavoidable equipment downtime next quarter
- OKRs to enhance efficiency and productivity in development within the team
- OKRs to achieve punctual timesheet submission
- OKRs to improve efficiency and satisfaction in stakeholder management