5 customisable OKR examples for Communications Officer
What are Communications Officer 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 Communications Officer 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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Our customisable Communications Officer OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different Communications Officer 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 communication with general contractors for increased project awards
Enhance communication with general contractors for increased project awards
Secure at least 10 more submittal quotes from general contractors each week
Follow up on previously sent quote requests every week- Post weekly inquiries on general contractor forums or job boards
- Reach out daily to at least two new general contractors for quotes
- Raise project award rate by 30% over the next quarter through effective negotiation
- Track and analyze negotiation outcomes regularly
- Establish robust, fair negotiation strategies and practices
- Train team members on effective negotiation techniques
- Maintain a 90% rate on timely, accurate responses to contractor inquiries
- Conduct regular response accuracy evaluations
- Implement a tracking system for contractor inquiries
- Schedule daily dedicated time for query responses
2. OKRs to strengthen and maintain stakeholder relations through effective communication
- Strengthen and maintain stakeholder relations through effective communication
- Establish a regular bi-monthly virtual stakeholders meeting to update initiative progress
- Schedule bi-monthly virtual meetings
- Prepare regular initiative progress updates
- Identify relevant stakeholders for virtual meetings
- Ensure 100% documentation and communication of all changes in initiatives to stakeholders
- Distribute changes in initiatives through emails/reports
- Develop a standardized change documentation process
- Implement regular update meetings with stakeholders
- Adequately prepare for and successfully review 90% of User Acceptance Testing scenarios
- Identify and understand all possible User Acceptance Testing scenarios
- Develop a detailed and comprehensive review plan
- Implement the plan and analyse each testing outcome
3. OKRs to craft an inspiring shared company mission, vision, and core values
- Craft an inspiring shared company mission, vision, and core values
- Successfully communicate new mission and values to 100% of the workforce
- Distribute written copies of the mission/values to all employees for reference
- Arrange an all-staff meeting to announce and explain the new vision
- Create a clear, engaging presentation outlining the mission and values
- Document and finalize mission, vision, and core values by week 8
- Draft mission, vision, and core values statements
- Revise and finalize documents by week 8
- Gather team feedback on drafts
- Conduct 10 brainstorming sessions with key stakeholders for idea generation
- Arrange suitable times for 10 brainstorming sessions
- Prepare materials needed for effective idea generation
- Identify and contact key stakeholders for brainstorming sessions
4. OKRs to maintain accuracy of vendor information across all clients
- Maintain accuracy of vendor information across all clients
- Reduce report inconsistencies related to vendor information by 25%
- Implement a centralized system for vendor data management
- Regularly review and update vendor databases
- Establish standard protocols for gathering vendor information
- Implement weekly checks with each client to confirm vendor information accuracy
- Create a weekly schedule for client vendor information checks
- Train staff to conduct vendor information accuracy checks
- Develop a reporting system for the weekly check results
- Verify and update 100% of vendor data in client systems every week
- Confirm successful update of all vendor data
- Review current vendor data in client systems weekly
- Update incorrect or outdated vendor information
5. OKRs to implement efficient governance for internal communications and editorial
- Implement efficient governance for internal communications and editorial
- Monitor and reduce communication or editorial inconsistencies by 50%
- Provide consistent editorial training to staff
- Implement a standardized communication style guide
- Regularly assess and correct content discrepancies
- Develop a comprehensive communication governance guide by end of next quarter
- Review, refine and finalize the guide
- Design and develop the preliminary guide draft
- Gather necessary communication aspects and requirements
- Train 80% of internal communication and editorial staff on new governance rules
- Monitor and confirm staff participation in sessions
- Identify internal staff requiring training on new governance rules
- Organize training sessions on new governance rules
Communications Officer 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 OKRsTip #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 transparencyTip #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 Communications Officer 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 OKRsIf 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 Communications Officer OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
- OKRs to eliminate high-risk tech debt over the next year
- OKRs to achieve promotion to an executive position
- OKRs to enhance expertise in customer success strategies and methodologies
- OKRs to enhance stakeholder communication for improved transparency and reporting
- OKRs to boost employees' understanding of corporate culture and core values
- OKRs to enhance overall company profitability
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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