4 OKR examples for Help Desk Team
What are Help Desk Team 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.
OKRs are quickly gaining popularity as a goal-setting framework. But, it's not always easy to know how to write your goals, especially if it's your first time using OKRs.
To aid you in setting your goals, we have compiled a collection of OKR examples customized for Help Desk Team. Take a look at the templates below for inspiration and guidance.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.
How to edit and track OKRs with Tability
You'll probably want to edit the examples in this post, and Tability is the perfect tool for it.
Tability is an AI-powered platform that helps teams set better goals, monitor execution, and get help to achieve their objectives faster.
With Tability you can:
- Use AI to draft a complete set of OKRs in seconds
- Connect your OKRs and team goals to your project
- Automate reporting with integrations and built-in dashboard
Instead of having to copy the content of the OKR examples in a doc or spreadsheet, you can use Tability’s magic importer to start using any of the examples in this page.
The import process can be done in seconds, allowing you to edit OKRs directly in a platform that knows how to manage and track goals.
Step 1. Sign up for a free Tability account
Go tohttps://tability.app/signup and create your account (it's free!)
Step 2. Create a plan
Follow the steps after your onboarding to create your first plan, you should get to a page that looks like the picture below.
Step 3. Use the magic importer
Click on Use magic import to open up the Magic Import modal.
Now, go back to the OKR examples, and click on Copy on the example that you’d like to use.
Paste the content in the text import section. Don’t worry about the formatting, Tability’s AI will be able to parse it!
Now, just click on Import from text and let the magic happen.
Once your example is in the plan editor, you will be able to:
- Edit the objectives, key results, and tasks
- Click on the target 0 → 100% to set better target
- Use the tips and the AI to refine your goals
Step 4. Publish your plan
Once you’re done editing, you can publish your plan to switch to the goal-tracking mode.
From there you will have access to all the features that will help you and your team save hours with OKR reporting.
- 10+ built-in dashboards to visualise progress on your goals
- Weekly reminders, data connectors, and smart notifications
- 9 views to map OKRs to strategic projects
- Strategy map to align teams at scale
Building your own Help Desk Team 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 Help Desk Team OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different Help Desk Team 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 increase Help Desk Quality Assurance Rating
- ObjectiveIncrease Help Desk Quality Assurance Rating
- KRTrain team to resolve 90% of issues on first contact
- Monitor progress and provide feedback regularly
- Implement a comprehensive training program on issue resolution
- Facilitate daily problem-solving work sessions
- KRReduce average response time to below 15 minutes
- Provide response time training to customer service
- Monitor and evaluate staff response times regularly
- Implement automated answering system for simple queries
- KRImprove customer satisfaction scores to 90% positive feedback
- Implement comprehensive customer service training for all staff
- Streamline customer feedback mechanisms for easier use
- Address customer complaints promptly and satisfactorily
2. OKRs to strengthen Coastal's relationship with the Help Desk
- ObjectiveStrengthen Coastal's relationship with the Help Desk
- KREscalate and close 90% of high-priority Help Desk tickets within two hours
- Assign dedicated personnel for urgent issues
- Develop thorough close-out procedures
- Implement quick response protocol for high-priority tickets
- KRReduce average resolution time for Help Desk inquiries by 20%
- Implement additional training for Help Desk staff
- Invest in better troubleshooting software
- Streamline the inquiry escalation process
- KRIncrease customer satisfaction scores from the Help Desk by 15%
- Implement faster and more effective issue resolution
- Gather and apply customer feedback regularly
- Improve employee training in customer service skills
3. OKRs to enhance effectiveness of ITSM help desk operations
- ObjectiveEnhance effectiveness of ITSM help desk operations
- KRIncrease ticket resolution rate by 30%
- Employ additional qualified customer service representatives
- Streamline ticket resolution process for efficiency
- Implement training sessions for enhanced customer service skills
- KRImprove customer satisfaction score by 15%
- Implement comprehensive employee customer service training
- Enhance product or service quality based on reviews
- Regularly solicit customer feedback and make improvements
- KRReduce average response time to within 2 hours
- Allocate more resources to customer service interactions
- Train staff on speedy, effective response methods
- Implement a more efficient ticketing system
4. OKRs to optimized management of Service and Admin accounts lifecycle
- ObjectiveOptimized management of Service and Admin accounts lifecycle
- KRReduce lifecycle management related incidences by 50% in the next quarter
- Increase regular audits of lifecycle management system
- Streamline lifecycle management processes with automated tools
- Implement comprehensive incident management training for all staff
- KR Achieve 90% user satisfaction in managing their accounts on new automated system
- Implement changes based on client feedback surveys
- Increase system's usability via regular user-experience reviews
- Provide efficient, easily accessible help-desk support
- KRImplement a 100% automated process for creating accounts by the end of quarter
- Train staff on the new process
- Identify software for automating account creation
- Test and refine automated process system
Help Desk Team OKR best practices
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
Focus can only be achieve by limiting the number of competing priorities. It is crucial that you take the time to identify where you need to move the needle, and avoid adding business-as-usual activities to your 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
Having good goals is only half the effort. You'll get significant more value from your OKRs if you commit to a weekly check-in process.
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 track your Help Desk Team OKRs
Quarterly OKRs should have weekly updates to get all the benefits from the 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.
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 Help Desk Team OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
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