3 customisable OKR examples for Mental Wellness
What are Mental Wellness 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 understand that setting OKRs can be challenging, so we have prepared a set of examples tailored for Mental Wellness. Take a peek at the templates below to find inspiration and kickstart your goal-setting process.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.
Building your own Mental Wellness 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 Mental Wellness OKRs examples
You'll find below a list of Objectives and Key Results templates for Mental Wellness. We also included strategic projects for each template to make it easier to understand the difference between key results and projects.
Hope you'll find this helpful!
1. OKRs to enhance life quality and mental health
Enhance life quality and mental health
Attend 15 therapy or wellness sessions for stress relief techniques
Regularly attend scheduled therapy or wellness sessions- Research and choose a suitable therapy or wellness center
- Schedule 15 sessions devoted to stress relief techniques
- Implement a healthy eating plan, with reduced processed food intake by 50%
- Purchase fresh produce and lean proteins for meals
- Prepare meals at home using whole food ingredients
- Develop a meal plan with 50% less processed foods
- Engage in regular physical activity at least 4 days each week
- Begin daily physical activity routine following the schedule
- Create a weekly schedule including physical activity 4 times
- Choose preferred workouts or sports for physical activity
2. OKRs to enhance personal life satisfaction
- Enhance personal life satisfaction
- Attend 2 personal growth workshops or events
- Register and secure tickets for the chosen events
- Research and select two personal growth workshops or events to attend
- Arrange transportation and accommodation if necessary
- Read 5 books related to personal development
- Research and select 5 personal development books
- Create a reading schedule for each book
- Write a brief summary after finishing each book
- Increase weekly exercise to 5 hours for mental wellness
- Incorporate different forms of exercise like walking, yoga, or swimming
- Monitor progress consistently to stay motivated and make necessary adjustments
- Create a weekly schedule dedicating an hour a day to physical activity
3. OKRs to achieve a 15 lbs weight loss
- Achieve a 15 lbs weight loss
- Dedicate at least 30 minutes daily for mental health activities like meditation
- Arrange a quiet, distraction-free space for meditation
- Set a daily reminder for 30 minutes of meditation
- Investigate different meditation techniques today
- Reduce intake of processed foods by 50%
- Identify and eliminate processed foods from current diet
- Increase consumption of whole, non-processed foods
- Create a weekly meal plan involving less processed foods
- Increase daily workout routine to burn an additional 500 calories daily
- Incorporate 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training into daily routine
- Learn and perform 20 minutes of bodyweight exercises daily
- Add a 2-mile fast-paced walk every morning
Mental Wellness 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 Mental Wellness 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 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 Mental Wellness OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
- OKRs to achieve unbreachable security and absolute compliance in SOC operations
- OKRs to ensure information security solution meets large customer requirements
- OKRs to develop a consistent, healthy lifestyle to promote weight loss
- OKRs to amplify employee satisfaction and overall wellbeing
- OKRs to streamline executive communication and decision-making
- OKRs to enhance company security standards to safeguard against potential threats
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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