3 customisable OKR examples for Business Travel

What are Business Travel 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.

Formulating strong OKRs can be a complex endeavor, particularly for first-timers. Prioritizing outcomes over projects is crucial when developing your plans.

We've tailored a list of OKRs examples for Business Travel to help you. You can look at any of the templates below to get some inspiration for your own goals.

If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.

Building your own Business Travel OKRs with AI

While we have some examples available, it's likely that you'll have specific scenarios that aren't covered here. You can use our free AI generator below or our more complete goal-setting system to generate your own OKRs.

Our customisable Business Travel OKRs examples

You will find in the next section many different Business Travel 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!

1. OKRs to make business travel process fully digital

Make business travel process fully digital
Identify and list all paper-dependent tasks in business travel by end of week 1
Survey team members about paper-dependent tasks in business travel
Research common paper-dependent tasks in corporate travel
Compile list of identified paper-dependent travel tasks by end of week 1
Design and implement a digital solution for identified tasks within week 5
Identify specific tasks requiring digital solution during week 5
Sketch out a basic design for the digital solution
Begin implementing the devised digital solution
Achieve 95% employee adoption of the new digital process in trial phase
Offer incentives for early adopters in trial phase
Conduct informative training sessions on new digital process
Seek feedback and troubleshoot issues quickly

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2. OKRs to successfully organize 75 engaging tour groups

Successfully organize 75 engaging tour groups
Partner with 80 local businesses for food, transportation, and attraction packages
Formalize agreements and prepare package details
Identify and list potential local businesses for partnership
Develop and pitch partnership proposals to each business
Onboard and train at least 10 dedicated tour guides for improved tour quality
Carry out in-depth training for selected individuals
Interview possible candidates for tour guide positions
Assign each guide to specific tour routes
Finalize 78 diverse and engaging itineraries to attract a broad audience
Confirm all itinerary dates and destinations
Review and update activities within each itinerary
Finalize and approve all itinerary descriptions

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3. OKRs to enhance travel agent business through video competition

Enhance travel agent business through video competition
Convert 10% of video competition participants into signed travel agents
Initiate personalized follow-up conversations with participants
Offer special training sessions tailored for video competition participants
Provide incentives for participants to join as travel agents
Increase social media engagement by 30% through video competition promotions
Analyze video competition performance and adjust strategy accordingly
Promote the video competition on all social media platforms
Create engaging video competition concepts relevant to the target audience
Launch video competition and attract 500+ entries from aspiring travel agents
Establish partnerships with travel agencies for wider reach
Create enticing competition guidelines and promotion materials
Amplify event on social media and travel blogs

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Business Travel OKR best practices to boost success

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

The #1 role of OKRs is to help you and your team focus on what really matters. Business-as-usual activities will still be happening, but you do not need to track your entire roadmap in the 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.

Tability's audit dashboard will highlight opportunities to improve OKRs

Tip #2: Commit to weekly OKR check-ins

Don't fall into the set-and-forget trap. It is important to adopt a weekly check-in process to get the full value of your OKRs and make your strategy agile – otherwise this is nothing more than a reporting exercise.

Being able to see trends for your key results will also keep yourself honest.

Tability's check-ins will save you hours and increase transparency

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.

How to turn your Business Travel OKRs in a strategy map

Your quarterly OKRs should be tracked weekly in order to get all the benefits of the OKRs 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

Spreadsheets are enough to get started. Then, once you need to scale you can use a proper OKR platform to make things easier.

Tability's Strategy Map makes it easy to see all your org's OKRs

If you're not yet set on a tool, you can check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates guide to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.

More Business Travel OKR templates

We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.

OKRs resources

Here are a list of resources to help you adopt the Objectives and Key Results framework.

To learn: What is the meaning of OKRs
Blog posts: ODT Blog
Success metrics: KPIs examples

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