12 customisable OKR examples for Focus
What are Focus 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.
Crafting effective OKRs can be challenging, particularly for beginners. Emphasizing outcomes rather than projects should be the core of your planning.
We've tailored a list of OKRs examples for Focus 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 Focus 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 Focus OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different Focus 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 focus to achieve higher productivity
Enhance focus to achieve higher productivity
Implement a daily 2-hour undisturbed work session
Disable all potential distractions during this period- Inform team members about your daily undisturbed session
- Designate a daily 2-hour block on your calendar for uninterrupted work
- Decrease social media usage to less than 1 hour per day
- Remove unnecessary social media apps from mobile devices
- Set daily screen time limits on all social media apps
- Dedicate specific hours for checking social media
- Finish reading three books on productivity and focus
- Develop a consistent daily reading schedule
- Note main points and actionable tips from each book
- Choose three high-rated books about productivity and focus
2. OKRs to launch a high-quality Real Estate focused newsletter
- Launch a high-quality Real Estate focused newsletter
- Publish 12 engaging, informative articles related to Real Estate
- Research hot topics in real estate industry
- Write drafts for 12 informative articles
- Edit, proofread, and publish articles
- Gather 250 confirmed subscribers for the newsletter within the quarter
- Design attractive subscription call-to-action buttons
- Offer exclusive content to newsletter subscribers
- Regularly promote the newsletter on social media
- Attract three sponsorships or advertisements specifically for this Real Estate newsletter
- Identify potential sponsors relevant to the real estate industry
- Reach out and pitch to the identified potential sponsors
- Develop a compelling sponsorship proposal for the newsletter
3. OKRs to enhance focus for better personal and professional growth
- Enhance focus for better personal and professional growth
- Complete a self-paced mindfulness or meditation course to improve concentration
- Research and choose a suitable self-paced mindfulness course
- Actively participate and apply learned techniques
- Schedule regular time for daily course engagement
- Allocate designated uninterrupted 'focus hours' every day
- Determine a specific timeframe for daily 'focus hours'
- Strictly adhere to your designated 'focus hours'
- Communicate your 'focus hours' to co-workers
- Track and improve productivity rates weekly using apps like RescueTime
- Set productivity improvement goals based on data
- Analyze weekly productivity reports on RescueTime
- Install and set up RescueTime app on your device
4. OKRs to enhance work ethos focusing on integrity, speed, passion, and transparency
- Enhance work ethos focusing on integrity, speed, passion, and transparency
- Complete 100% of assigned tasks with zero integrity-related issues
- Review every task breakdown meticulously to understand expectations completely
- Prioritize and execute tasks with complete honesty and transparency
- Ensure ongoing self-audit and cross-checking work accuracy
- Improve project delivery speed, reducing turnaround time by 20%
- Streamline project workflows to eliminate unnecessary steps
- Implement more efficient project management tools
- Enhance team training for productivity improvement
- Increase 360-degree feedback scores on passion and transparency by 35%
- Implement proactive feedback mechanisms for immediate action
- Arrange workshops to enhance staff communication and transparency
- Promote passion through exciting company wide initiatives
5. OKRs to shift newsroom operations towards a topic-first communication approach
- Shift newsroom operations towards a topic-first communication approach
- Increase audience engagement by 15% through topic-first content
- Research popular topics among current audience members
- Monitor and adjust content based on audience feedback
- Develop compelling content based on chosen topics
- Improve team knowledge on 5 key topics by 30% through training sessions
- Identify 5 key topics necessitating improved team knowledge
- Organize comprehensive training sessions on these topics
- Evaluate team's understanding after each session
- Reduce time spent on channel-focused strategies by 25%
- Streamline content creation for all platforms
- Implement automation tools for posting schedules
- Delegate channel strategy work among team members
6. OKRs to achieve all A's and B's, focusing on English
- Achieve all A's and B's, focusing on English
- Commit to reading and summarizing one English novel per week
- Write a weekly novel summary
- Select an English novel for the week
- Allocate daily reading time
- Attend all English classes and participate actively in each
- Set regular reminders for each scheduled English class
- Complete pre-class assignments and readings on time
- Engage in class discussions and activities
- Secure 90% or higher on all English assignments/tests
- Allocate sufficient time daily for English assignment preparation
- Consistently participate in English study groups
- Engage with specialized English tutor weekly
7. OKRs to enhance children's speaking skills focusing on pronunciation, diction and intonation
- Enhance children's speaking skills focusing on pronunciation, diction and intonation
- Ensure 80% of children show measurable improvement in intonation via regular testing
- Achieve a 30% improvement in diction based on an established rubric
- Attend professional speech and pronunciation workshops
- Record and critique personal speech regularly
- Practice daily using recommended diction exercises
- Implement a bi-weekly pronunciation training program for all children
- Allocate resources for pronunciation training materials
- Schedule experienced trainers for bi-weekly sessions
- Outline a comprehensive bi-weekly pronunciation syllabus
8. OKRs to enhance focus and accountability in Fraud Investigations Department
- Enhance focus and accountability in Fraud Investigations Department
- Increase cases solved per investigator by 30% through focused team training
- Establish performance tracking to measure progress
- Implement specialized team training on investigation techniques
- Evaluate current investigation strategies for potential improvement
- Achieve 100% timely status update for ongoing fraud investigations for accountability
- Assign a team member responsible for tracking and updating status
- Conduct weekly checks to ensure all reports are up-to-date
- Implement a daily reporting system for all ongoing fraud investigations
- Implement advanced fraud detection tools to improve detection rate by 25%
- Research available advanced fraud detection tools on the market
- Train staff on how to utilize new detection software effectively
- Purchase and integrate chosen fraud detection tool into system
9. OKRs to establish powerful brand's core messaging and voice
- Establish powerful brand's core messaging and voice
- Use feedback to create and test 5 distinct brand voice options by week 10
- Implement and test each brand voice option
- Develop 5 unique brand voice options based on feedback
- Compile feedback on current brand voice from different stakeholders
- Finalize and integrate agreed brand voice into all marketing materials by week 12
- Review and confirm the agreed brand voice by week 10
- Update all marketing materials with new brand voice by week 11
- Fully integrate brand voice into marketing strategy by week 12
- Conduct 3 focus group sessions to get insights on effective brand messaging by week 6
- Schedule and conduct 3 focus group sessions
- Identify and recruit suitable participants for focus group sessions
- Prepare structure and content for each focus group session
10. OKRs to boost brand visibility through enhanced focus on major supplies
- Boost brand visibility through enhanced focus on major supplies
- Collaborate with 10 industry influencers for product promotion within their networks
- Identify and list 10 relevant industry influencers
- Develop personalized outreach strategies for each influencer
- Launch and monitor influencer collaboration for product promotion
- Enhance website traffic by 30% via SEO optimization and content marketing focused on major supplies
- Create engaging, high-quality content about major supplies
- Implement SEO optimization strategies on the website
- Promote content across all social media platforms
- Increase social media engagement by 40% highlighting our primary supplies
- Create engaging posts focusing on our primary supplies
- Promote posts using targeted ads on social media platforms
- Start a contest encouraging user-generated content
11. OKRs to consistently publish high-quality content aligned with audience needs
- Increase audience engagement through high-quality content
- Achieve a minimum of X% engagement rate on all social media platforms
- Implement X new content formats to diversify and expand our audience reach
- Increase website traffic by X% through SEO optimization
- Increase email open rates by X% through personalized and segmented email campaigns
12. OKRs to transform company with lean and agile focus
- Transform company with lean and agile focus
- Increase customer satisfaction by delivering products and services faster through agile development
- Conduct regular customer satisfaction surveys to collect feedback and identify areas for improvement
- Set achievable and aggressive timelines for each project to ensure faster product and service delivery
- Implement agile development process to streamline product and service delivery workflows
- Invest in employee training and development to enhance skills and productivity in agile development
- Increase employee engagement by implementing lean and agile practices for better collaboration
- Establish cross-functional teams to encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing among employees
- Conduct training sessions on lean and agile practices for all employees
- Implement regular feedback loops and communication channels to foster open dialogues between employees and management
- Recognize and reward employees who actively participate in lean and agile practices
- Reduce operational waste by implementing lean principles and achieving measurable efficiency improvements
- Monitor progress regularly through key performance indicators and adjust strategies as needed
- Conduct a waste assessment to identify areas with potential for improvement
- Streamline processes by eliminating non-value added activities and optimizing workflows
- Develop a lean implementation plan with clear goals, roles, and responsibilities
- Improve team performance by conducting regular agile training and implementing continuous improvement practices
- Develop and implement strategies for continuous improvement based on analysis results
- Implement a system for gathering feedback and suggestions from team members
- Analyze team performance data and identify areas for improvement
- Schedule regular agile training sessions for the team
Focus 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 Focus 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
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.
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 Focus OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
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- OKRs to ensure readiness for GA release of product on Linux
- OKRs to successfully launch ATWOME's Injection Service in Florida
- OKRs to significantly increase MICE revenue and diversify client portfolio
- OKRs to secure suitable employment this summer
- OKRs to implement effective OKR framework for document management
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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