10 customisable OKR examples for Organization Development
What are Organization Development 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.
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 Organization Development 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 Organization Development OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different Organization Development 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 establish successful transformation plan for organizational structure
Establish successful transformation plan for organizational structure
Identify and document current organization chart by end of Week 1
Create a clear, visual organization chart- Research the current company's structure and hierarchy
- Finalize and document the organization chart
- Achieve 90% staff approval for the new organizational structure after presentation
- Implement suggested improvements to gain acceptance
- Conduct feedback sessions post-presentation to address concerns
- Develop comprehensive presentation detailing the new organizational structure
- Develop a detailed, new organizational structure model within 4 weeks
- Sketch initial organizational layout draft
- Define needed roles and their responsibilities
- Ensure managerial approvals on the draft
2. OKRs to boost employee skills development by 20% with minimal budget
- Boost employee skills development by 20% with minimal budget
- Achieve 85% employee completion of online, self-guided courses
- Implement regular email reminders for course completion
- Establish incentives for employees who complete courses
- Develop engaging, relevant content for online courses
- Implement cost-effective, peer-led training programs for 75% of employees
- Select a diverse group of employees to undergo leadership training
- Assess current training programs and identify areas for peer-led instruction
- Develop and launch peer-led training sessions for selected employees
- Increase internal mentorship partnerships by 30% to promote skills transfer
- Implement a promotional campaign for mentorship program
- Establish incentives for participating in mentorship
- Identify potential skilled mentors within the organization
3. OKRs to expand organizational size and personnel capabilities
- Expand organizational size and personnel capabilities
- Implement 100% training for all new hires within their first week
- Develop comprehensive training program for all new hires
- Schedule training sessions within first week of employment
- Monitor and assess new hires' progress post-training
- Increase total staff by 10% through strategic recruitment
- Identify necessary roles to fill for 10% staff increase
- Begin implementing recruitment plan to attract new hires
- Develop a strategic recruitment plan targeting these roles
- Achieve 15% more workload efficiency through advanced training and development programs
- Enroll team in relevant advanced training programs
- Identify critical performance gaps in current workload handling
- Periodically measure efficiency improvements post-training
4. OKRs to cultivate and leverage leaders with innovative ideas for organizational growth
- Cultivate and leverage leaders with innovative ideas for organizational growth
- Identify 10 potential leaders through proven leadership discovery methodologies
- Select 10 potential leaders from results
- Research proven leadership discovery methodologies
- Apply methodologies to identify potential leaders
- Substantiate 5 new emergent ideas proposed by the identified leaders
- Research the feasibility and potential impact of the new ideas
- Arrange meetings with the leaders to discuss their proposed ideas
- Prepare detailed reports supporting these emergent concepts
- Achieve a 20% increase in innovative project implementations lead by these leaders
- Implement training programs focused on innovation
- Encourage risk-taking and idea experimentation
- Organize regular creative brainstorming sessions with leaders
5. OKRs to boost HR effectiveness in facilitating organization and people growth
- Boost HR effectiveness in facilitating organization and people growth
- Increase employee retention rate by 20%
- Enhance company benefits and compensation packages
- Implement a comprehensive employee development and training program
- Increase regular feedback and recognition sessions
- Decrease average hiring process time by 15%
- Establish a structured, efficient onboarding process
- Streamline interview scheduling with automated tools
- Implement standardised skill-based assessments
- Upgrade leadership development programs benefiting 30% of employees
- Source and hire professional development consultants
- Conduct survey to identify areas for leadership program improvement
- Implement program changes based on consultant feedback
6. OKRs to enhance professional growth through lunch and learn sessions
- Enhance professional growth through lunch and learn sessions
- Write and share a summary of key learnings from each session with the team
- Distribute summary to team via email
- Jot down main points learned during each session
- Structure these points into a succinct summary
- Attend a minimum of 10 lunch and learn sessions by various professionals
- Research and list upcoming lunch and learn sessions that interest you
- Plan out your schedule to include at least 10 sessions
- Regularly attend, engage, and take notes at these events
- Use the knowledge gained to contribute to at least 2 team projects/tasks
- Use acquired understanding to help resolve project challenges
- Incorporate new knowledge in planning future team initiatives
- Apply learned skills in assisting team members with major project milestones
7. OKRs to improve mobile app reusability throughout the organization
- Improve mobile app reusability throughout the organization
- Conduct training for 100% of developers on efficient app component reusability practices
- Develop a comprehensive reusability practices training program
- Monitor and evaluate the training's effectiveness
- Schedule training sessions for all developers
- Reduce app feature duplication by 80% through consolidation efforts
- Implement the consolidation plan in the app
- Create a concise plan for feature consolidation
- Identify features with duplication in the app
- Implement shared framework to universalize 75% of mobile app functionalities
- Integrate framework into 75% of mobile apps
- Develop a shared framework integrating these commonalities
- Identify common functionalities across existing mobile apps
8. OKRs to minimize employee turnover in the organization
- Minimize employee turnover in the organization
- Reduce company-wide voluntary turnover rate by 10%
- Implement a comprehensive employee engagement and satisfaction program
- Improve compensation and benefits program based on industry standards
- Conduct exit interviews to understand reasons for leaving
- Implement an initiative to improve employee satisfaction, achieving 85% positive feedback
- Conduct a survey to identify current employee satisfaction levels
- Develop and implement strategies to address identified dissatisfaction areas
- Regularly monitor and adjust strategies based on employee feedback
- Increase average employee tenure by 15% through career development initiatives
- Design a comprehensive career development program for all employees
- Implement regular mentoring and coaching sessions
- Encourage employees to attend professional development workshops
9. OKRs to enhance gender diversity across all layers of the organization
- Enhance gender diversity across all layers of the organization
- Measure and achieve a 20% improvement in employee gender diversity engagement survey scores
- Implement gender-neutral communication and practices
- Develop a gender diversity training program for all employees
- Conduct regular gender diversity engagement surveys
- Increase the representation of diverse genders by 30% in leadership roles
- Establish mandatory diverse gender leadership training programs
- Implement affirmative action in leadership succession plans
- Increase outreach for leadership positions to diverse gender groups
- Implement a gender diversity training program for all employees
- Monitor and evaluate the program's effectiveness post-implementation
- Schedule mandatory training sessions for all employees
- Research and select a comprehensive gender diversity training program
10. OKRs to establish my unique, impactful role in the organization
- Establish my unique, impactful role in the organization
- Develop a personalized career plan with specified growth targets by month-end
- Identify required skills and necessary action steps
- Draft a detailed timeline for achievement
- Define specific career milestones to obtain
- Achieve a minimum 80% approval rating on the execution of assigned roles and responsibilities
- Consistently deliver high quality work
- Implement training programs for skill enhancement
- Solicit regular feedback to identify areas needing improvement
- Attain deep knowledge and skills in my designated area with at least 90% proficiency
- Seek mentorship or coaching in the designated area
- Engage in daily devoted study and practice sessions
- Regularly evaluate progress and adjust learning methods
Organization Development 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 Organization Development 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
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 Organization Development OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
- OKRs to optimize onboarding process for call center recruits
- OKRs to improve content conversion rates through A/B testing
- OKRs to increase conversion rate of pre-launch leads for pre-orders by 10%
- OKRs to enhance project planning and team coordination
- OKRs to position X as an integral part of the innovation ecosystem
- OKRs to enhance the overall quality and operations of the childcare centre
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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