4 customisable OKR examples for Practice Leaders
What are Practice Leaders 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.
Creating impactful OKRs can be a daunting task, especially for newcomers. Shifting your focus from projects to outcomes is key to successful planning.
We've tailored a list of OKRs examples for Practice Leaders 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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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 Practice Leaders OKRs examples
We've added many examples of Practice Leaders 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 to strengthen relationship and engagement with practices
To strengthen relationship and engagement with practices
Achieve a 15% increase in regular communication with practices
Regularly schedule bi-weekly practice management meetings- Implement weekly email updates for ongoing practice-related events
- Create an interactive feedback system for immediate responses
- Implement two new collaborative projects with practices
- Identify suitable practices for collaboration
- Initiate contact and negotiate project details
- Develop proposal for new collaborative projects
- Improve satisfaction among practices by 20% as measured by a follow-up survey
- Introduce new incentives for high-performing practices
- Enhance communication between management and practices
- Implement regular feedback sessions with practices
2. OKRs to enhance maturity and adoption of lean/scaled Agile delivery practices
- Enhance maturity and adoption of lean/scaled Agile delivery practices
- Confirm 85% staff satisfaction with the transition to Agile practices via survey
- Analyze the received feedback for satisfaction rate
- Develop a clear and concise survey measuring Agile practice satisfaction
- Distribute the survey to all staff members
- Achieve 25% productivity increase through lean/Agile methodologies implementation
- Identify areas for process optimization using lean/Agile methodologies
- Monitor and adjust strategies for continuous productivity improvement
- Implement selected lean/Agile practices in those identified areas
- Implement lean/scaled Agile training for 90% of delivery team members
- Track team members’ progress post-training
- Schedule training for 90% of the team members
- Identify appropriate Agile training program for delivery team
3. OKRs to improve software development team leadership effectiveness
- Improve software development team leadership effectiveness
- Improve team efficiency by implementing agile practices and metrics to track progress
- Conduct training on Agile practices and ensure all team members understand the principles
- Implement regular stand-up meetings to enhance communication, identify obstacles, and resolve them promptly
- Utilize Agile metrics like velocity and burndown charts to track progress and optimize productivity
- Establish clear goals and prioritize tasks using Agile frameworks like Scrum or Kanban
- Foster effective communication and collaboration within the team to drive successful project delivery
- Promote cross-functional collaboration by assigning individuals from different departments to work together
- Utilize project management tools and software to streamline communication and document sharing
- Implement regular team meetings to discuss project updates, challenges, and opportunities
- Encourage open and honest communication to foster a collaborative and trusting environment
- Increase team satisfaction and engagement through regular feedback and recognition
- Enhance technical skills by facilitating ongoing training programs and knowledge sharing sessions
4. OKRs to enhance the effectiveness of people management practices
- Enhance the effectiveness of people management practices
- Increase team productivity by 20% through refined people management practices
- Develop communication protocols to streamline information flow
- Introduce peer recognition and reward systems
- Implement weekly team-specific training and skill development sessions
- Reduce turnover rate by 15% through improved management strategies
- Implement comprehensive management training programs
- Foster a positive and inclusive workplace environment
- Develop clear communication channels between staff and management
- Implement feedback collection system for 100% of team members
- Train all team members on how to use the feedback system
- Establish a regular schedule for feedback collection and review
- Select an effective feedback collection tool suitable for the team
Practice Leaders 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
Having too many OKRs is the #1 mistake that teams make when adopting the framework. The problem with tracking too many competing goals is that it will be hard for your team to know what really matters.
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
Setting good goals can be challenging, but without regular check-ins, your team will struggle to make progress. We recommend that you track your OKRs weekly to get the full benefits from the framework.
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 Practice Leaders 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
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 Practice Leaders OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
- OKRs to increase security awareness
- OKRs to increase job productivity through effective goal setting and time management
- OKRs to establish a strong personal brand for Carnevali's human management and project endeavors
- OKRs to enhance software and component quality
- OKRs to implement comprehensive security training for all staff
- OKRs to minimize application downtime to improve performance
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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