4 customisable OKR examples for Company Culture

What are Company Culture 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 Company Culture 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.

Building your own Company Culture 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 Company Culture OKRs examples

You will find in the next section many different Company Culture 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 employees' alignment with the organization's objectives and culture

Enhance employees' alignment with the organization's objectives and culture
Increase the average score from employee engagement survey by 20%
Establish an open feedback culture promoting transparency and honesty
Implement training programs focused on communication and team-building skills
Enhance employee recognition and reward strategies
Conduct 5 company-culture training sessions to all departments
Identify key elements of the company culture for training
Schedule department-wide sessions to communicate timelines
Plan, outline, and prepare the 5 training sessions
Achieve 90% successful completion of individual performance targets connected to organisation's objective
Regularly review personal KPIs aligned with organizational objectives
Develop execution strategies for each performance target
Continuously analyze and improve current performance methods

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2. OKRs to establish a strong sales culture within the company

Establish a strong sales culture within the company
Train 80% of our sales team in consultative selling techniques
Create a schedule to accommodate 80% of the sales team
Implement regular tracking and accountability measures post-training
Identify a training provider specializing in consultative selling techniques
Achieve a 15% increase in quarterly sales revenue
Implement innovative promotional campaigns to boost product visibility
Improve customer service to foster repeat business
Develop upselling strategies for existing customers
Increase weekly team sales meetings to 100% participation
Implement mandatory attendance policy for all sales meetings
Schedule meetings at convenient times for team members
Send reminder notifications before every meeting

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3. OKRs to cultivate an appealing, inclusive company culture

Cultivate an appealing, inclusive company culture
Decrease turnover rate by 15% through enhanced workplace conditions
Introduce flexible working hours for work-life balance
Implement mandatory team-building activities to foster camaraderie
Upgrade office equipment for a better work experience
Improve employee satisfaction score by 20% through engagement initiatives
Implement weekly team-building activities and workshops
Conduct regular feedback and suggestion sessions
Establish an employee recognition and rewards system
Implement 2 employee-led initiatives to foster ownership and engagement
Launch two employee-led initiatives
Provide training on leading and engagement strategies
Identify possible leaders interested in leading initiatives

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4. OKRs to establish a company-wide collaborative culture

Establish a company-wide collaborative culture
Implement monthly interactive team-building exercises for all departments
Schedule regular exercise sessions within working hours
Assign a coordinator to manage and facilitate these exercises
Identify suitable team-building exercises for each department
Achieve an average rating of 4/5 on collaboration in employee satisfaction surveys
Provide training on effective communication techniques
Introduce a platform for sharing ideas and feedback
Implement team-building activities to enhance collaboration skills
Reduce interdepartmental project conflicts by 20%
Provide conflict resolution training for project managers
Implement regular interdepartmental communication meetings
Develop a clear, unified project vision

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Company Culture 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 Company Culture 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

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 Company Culture 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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