3 customisable OKR examples for Communication Tools
What are Communication Tools OKRs?
The Objective and Key Results (OKR) framework is a simple goal-setting methodology that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s. It became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s, and it's now used by teams of all sizes to set and track ambitious goals at scale.
Writing good OKRs can be hard, especially if it's your first time doing it. You'll need to center the focus of your plans around outcomes instead of projects.
We have curated a selection of OKR examples specifically for Communication Tools to assist you. Feel free to explore the templates below for inspiration in setting your own goals.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.
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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 Communication Tools OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different Communication Tools 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 enhance efficiency and effectiveness of internal communications
- Enhance efficiency and effectiveness of internal communications
- Implement a collaborative tool to reduce email communication by 50%
- Identify suitable collaborative tools for team communication
- Monitor and measure reduction in email usage
- Train team on the usage of the selected tool
- Achieve a 25% increase in staff participation in internal communications feedback surveys
- Implement staff incentives for survey participation
- Regularly promote surveys through company-wide communications
- Develop engaging, concise surveys for easier completion
- Develop an internal communications strategy and get approval from all department heads
- Schedule meetings with department heads for feedback
- Revise and finalize strategy based on received approval
- Draft an initial internal communications strategy proposal
2. OKRs to enhance communication tools for internal project members
- Enhance communication tools for internal project members
- Achieve 15% increase in project collaboration as measured by communication platform analytics
- Promote and facilitate open project discussions
- Implement regular team meetings to review project progress
- Introduce new communication platform with analytics
- Provide efficient communication suite to 100% of team members
- Evaluate existing communication tools for suitability and efficiency
- Select and purchase optimal communication suite for team
- Train all team members on using the new communication suite
- Conduct training sessions to improve mastery of communication tools for 90% of staff
- Identify necessary communication tools for staff training
- Implement training sessions for all staff members
- Develop comprehensive training course on these tools
3. OKRs to improve internal company communication
- Improve internal company communication
- Implement a new communication tool addressing identified communication issues by week 8
- Select and trial run the best-fit communication tool by week 5
- Evaluate and brainstorm possible communication tool solutions by week 2
- Implement and test communication tool, addressing issues by week 8
- Conduct a survey to identify current communication challenges by week 4
- Identify and invite relevant participants for the survey
- Draft a list of questions addressing current communication issues
- Analyze and compile survey results by week 4
- Achieve 10% reduction in communication-related complaints by end of quarter
- Establish a feedback system for improving communication-related issues
- Review and revise current communication protocols in place
- Implement a weekly training on effective communication skills for employees
Communication Tools 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.
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.
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 Communication Tools OKRs in a strategy map
The rules of OKRs are simple. Quarterly OKRs should be tracked weekly, and yearly OKRs should be tracked monthly. 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
We recommend using a spreadsheet for your first OKRs cycle. You'll need to get familiar with the scoring and tracking first. Then, you can scale your OKRs process by using a proper OKR-tracking tool for it.
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 Communication Tools OKR templates
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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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