3 customisable OKR examples for Laboratory Team
What are Laboratory Team 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.
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.
We've tailored a list of OKRs examples for Laboratory Team 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.
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Our customisable Laboratory Team OKRs examples
We've added many examples of Laboratory Team Objectives and Key Results, but we did not stop there. Understanding the difference between OKRs and projects is important, so we also added examples of strategic initiatives that relate to the OKRs.
Hope you'll find this helpful!
1. OKRs to implement a laboratory procedure mentorship program
- Implement a laboratory procedure mentorship program
- Successfully onboard and guide 20 mentees through the mentoring program to improve their skill levels
- Develop a comprehensive onboarding plan for new mentees
- Implement skill assessment tests to measure improvements
- Schedule regular guidance sessions for individual mentees
- Achieve a 90% satisfactory rating in post-mentoring feedback from participants
- Regularly evaluate and update mentoring methodology based on feedback
- Develop comprehensive mentoring curriculum tailored to participants' needs
- Foster open communication and response to participants' concerns promptly
- Develop a comprehensive laboratory procedures training curriculum by involving 5 experienced laboratory technicians
- Identify 5 experienced lab technicians for curriculum development
- Draft initial training procedures with technician input
- Review, adjust, and finalize comprehensive curriculum
2. OKRs to successfully complete my college lab class within initial nine weeks
- Successfully complete my college lab class within initial nine weeks
- Complete and submit 100% of lab assignments on time
- Create a schedule allocating time slot for each lab assignment
- Work on assignments daily to avoid last-minute rush
- Submit completed assignments promptly upon completion
- Attain a minimum of 85% on all lab tests and examinations
- Regularly review lab procedures and study materials
- Practice with past lab exams for improvement
- Schedule dedicated daily hours for focused revision
- Attend all scheduled lab classes and maintain 100% attendance
- Prioritize lab classes in your daily schedule
- Set reminders for all upcoming lab classes
- Avoid scheduling conflicting activities during lab times
3. OKRs to establish insightful scientific mentoring program for laboratory procedures
- Establish insightful scientific mentoring program for laboratory procedures
- Achieve an average score of 4.5 on feedback form regarding program effectiveness
- Offer additional support and resources for participant success
- Regularly evaluate and update the program based on feedback
- Develop high quality, engaging and relevant content for the program
- Curate a comprehensive syllabus covering the scientific aspects by week 6
- Arrange topics into a six-week course outline
- Draft detailed weekly lesson plans
- Identify key scientific topics to include in the syllabus
- Secure at least 3 experts from relevant scientific fields as mentors
- Draft personalized emails inviting them to mentor
- Schedule and conduct one-on-one meetings with them
- Identify 3 experts in relevant scientific fields
Laboratory Team 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 Laboratory Team OKRs in a strategy map
OKRs without regular progress updates are just KPIs. You'll need to update progress on your OKRs every week to get the full 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 Laboratory Team OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
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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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