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What are Standards 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.
Crafting effective OKRs can be challenging, particularly for beginners. Emphasizing outcomes rather than projects should be the core of your planning.
We have a collection of OKRs examples for Standards to give you some inspiration. You can use any of the templates below as a starting point for your OKRs.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.
The best tools for writing perfect Standards OKRs
Here are 2 tools that can help you draft your OKRs in no time.
Tability AI: to generate OKRs based on a prompt
Tability AI allows you to describe your goals in a prompt, and generate a fully editable OKR template in seconds.
- 1. Create a Tability account
- 2. Click on the Generate goals using AI
- 3. Describe your goals in a prompt
- 4. Get your fully editable OKR template
- 5. Publish to start tracking progress and get automated OKR dashboards
Watch the video below to see it in action 👇
Tability Feedback: to improve existing OKRs
You can use Tability's AI feedback to improve your OKRs if you already have existing goals.
- 1. Create your Tability account
- 2. Add your existing OKRs (you can import them from a spreadsheet)
- 3. Click on Generate analysis
- 4. Review the suggestions and decide to accept or dismiss them
- 5. Publish to start tracking progress and get automated OKR dashboards
Tability will scan your OKRs and offer different suggestions to improve them. This can range from a small rewrite of a statement to make it clearer to a complete rewrite of the entire OKR.
Standards OKRs examples
You'll find below a list of Objectives and Key Results templates for Standards. 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!
OKRs to enforce coding standards to prevent new tech debt
ObjectiveStandardize coding practices for debt reduction
KRConduct training sessions to educate all team members- KRReduce tech debt backlog by 50% through enforcement of standards
- KRDevelop and implement updated coding standards
- KRConduct quarterly reviews to ensure adherence to standards
OKRs to achieve 100% compliance with relevant industry regulations and standards
- ObjectiveEnsure regulatory compliance in all operations
- KREstablish a system for continuous monitoring and reporting of compliance status
Define metrics to track compliance- Schedule regular compliance audits
- Establish communication protocol for reporting
- Design compliance reporting dashboard
- KRAchieve 100% compliance with all relevant regulations and standards
- Stay up-to-date with changes to regulations and standards
- Conduct regular audits to ensure compliance
- Provide ongoing training to employees
- Implement measures to address non-compliance
- KRDevelop and implement an updated compliance training program for all employees
- Launch new compliance training program online and in-person
- Evaluate effectiveness of updated program through employee feedback and assessments
- Conduct a needs assessment to identify compliance training gaps
- Create new, engaging training materials for all job functions
- KRConduct a full audit of all operations and identify areas of regulatory risk
- Identify gaps in compliance procedures and create action plan
- Review each operation for compliance risks
- Conduct training on regulations and compliance procedures
- Evaluate existing controls and their effectiveness
OKRs to enhance technical design standards supervision for the team
- ObjectiveEnhance technical design standards supervision for the team
- KRIncrease the team's compliance with technical design standards by 30%
- Develop regular technical design standards training sessions
- Implement a robust standards compliance check process
- Regularly update team on new/adjusted design standards
- KRConduct weekly audits, ensuring 100% coverage of all design projects
- Schedule consistent weekly audits for all design projects
- Check completeness of each design project during audits
- Document and report any discrepancies or issues found
- KRImplement an updated set of design standards by 20% within the quarter
- Develop a comprehensive update plan for design standards
- Assess current design standards for potential improvements
- Implement newly enhanced design standards
OKRs to enhance Design team's adherence to technical design & construction standards
- ObjectiveEnhance Design team's adherence to technical design & construction standards
- KRConduct 2 detailed training sessions on updated technical construction standards
- Identify knowledgeable specialist to facilitate both sessions
- Prepare comprehensive training materials on updated standards
- Schedule two suitable dates and venues for training sessions
- KRImplement a bi-monthly review and feedback system for ongoing design works
- Schedule regular bi-monthly design review meetings
- Establish a standardized feedback template
- Communicate feedback process to design team
- KRAchieve 90% compliance with new design standards across all projects
- Provide one-on-one coaching for non-compliant project teams
- Implement training sessions on new design standards for all team members
- Regularly audit projects to ensure compliance with new standards
OKRs to implement Unified Standards Across all Hospital Units
- ObjectiveImplement Unified Standards Across all Hospital Units
- KRAchieve 90% staff training completion on new standards within 8 weeks
- Implement weekly progress assessment for staff members
- Provide individual guidance where needed to ensure understanding
- Initiate comprehensive training program on new standards
- KRDevelop comprehensive, uniform standards incorporating best practices within 5 weeks
- Implement uniform standards across all departments
- Create comprehensive standards based on findings
- Identify key components of best practices in industry
- KRIdentify differing practices in all units by reviewing process documents within 2 weeks
- Highlight differing practices within a two-week timeframe
- Catalog all process documents across each unit
- Review these documents to identify differences
OKRs to ensure adoption and compliance with circuit breaker standards
- ObjectiveEnsure adoption and compliance with circuit breaker standards
- KRImplement two new practices or technologies that promote circuit breaker standards compliance
- Incorporate the new technologies into the existing workflow
- Obtain and provide training on chosen practices or technologies
- Research and select two technologies that enhance circuit breaker compliance
- KRConduct five workshops on circuit breaker standards for relevant employees
- Identify potential attendees related to circuit breaker tasks
- Schedule five workshops on circuit breaker standards
- Prepare comprehensive workshop materials
- KRAchieve 100% completion of compliance checklists by all relevant departments
- Implement mandatory compliance training sessions
- Track checklist completion in real-time
- Assign compliance checklists to all relevant departments
OKRs to implement Good Manufacturing Practices through Quality leadership and ISO standards
- ObjectiveImplement Good Manufacturing Practices through Quality leadership and ISO standards
- KRReduce production errors by 10% to enhance overall product quality
- Enhance quality control and assurance systems
- Implement regular product quality checks
- Provide employee training for error reduction
- KRTrain 100% of operational staff on Good Manufacturing Practices guidelines and ISO standards
- Identify specific ISO standards and GMP guidelines for operational staff
- Develop a comprehensive training curriculum incorporating these standards
- Schedule and conduct mandatory training sessions for all operational staff
- KRAchieve ISO standard certification via passing a comprehensive third-party audit
- Develop and implement processes that align with specified ISO standards
- Familiarize team with ISO standard's fundamental principles and requirements
- Hire a third-party auditing firm to conduct comprehensive certification audit
OKRs to attain great security standards
- ObjectiveAttain great security standards
- KRAll developers score 90+ in our security awareness training
- KR100% of devices are enrolled in a Mobile Device Management system
- KR100% of our services have a threat mitigation system in place
- KROur policies cover 100% of the ISO 27001 requirements
OKRs to develop high-quality English language arts assessment items
- ObjectiveDevelop high-quality English language arts assessment items
- KRGet 95% positive feedback from teachers on the assessment items
- Conduct a survey to gauge current teacher satisfaction with assessment items
- Regularly communicate improvements made, requesting ongoing feedback
- Implement suggested changes based on survey feedback
- KRIntegrate at least 80% of the assessed standards in the items developed
- Develop items integrating identified standards
- Review and revise integrated items to ensure quality
- Identify and review 80% of assessed standards
- KRDraft and finalize 60 English language arts assessment items
- Start drafting diverse and high-quality assessment questions
- Review, revise and finalize each assessment item
- Determine the key areas of focus based on the ELA academic standards
OKRs to ensure timely delivery of superior quality projects
- ObjectiveEnsure timely delivery of superior quality projects
- KRDecrease project deadline overruns by 50%
- Strengthen communication and coordination among teams
- Implement effective project management tools and methodologies
- Regularly monitor and track project progress
- KRImplement a streamlined project management system to improve efficiency by 30%
- Train staff on the new system for uniform implementation
- Research and select a streamlined project management system
- Evaluate current project management procedures for inefficiencies
- KREnsure 100% adherence to established project quality standards
- Train team in quality standards enforcement
- Implement regular quality checks and audits
- Regularly review project to verify adherence to quality standards
Standards 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
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.
Save hours with automated OKR dashboards
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 Tability to save time with automated OKR dashboards, data connectors, and actionable insights.
How to get Tability dashboards:
- 1. Create a Tability account
- 2. Use the importers to add your OKRs (works with any spreadsheet or doc)
- 3. Publish your OKR plan
That's it! Tability will instantly get access to 10+ dashboards to monitor progress, visualise trends, and identify risks early.
More Standards OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
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- OKRs to enhance skill set of existing workforce to address talent scarcity