2 customisable OKR examples for Strategic Measures
What are Strategic Measures 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 have a collection of OKRs examples for Strategic Measures 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.
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Our customisable Strategic Measures OKRs examples
You'll find below a list of Objectives and Key Results templates for Strategic Measures. 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 preventative measures to dissipate potential risks
- Enhance preventative measures to dissipate potential risks
- Implement a risk assessment protocol across all departments
- Train all department heads on protocol implementation
- Identify potential risks in each department
- Develop a standardized risk assessment protocol
- Reduce identified risks by 40% through strategic measures and adaptations
- Increase staff training on risk management and mitigation
- Routinely simulate emergency situations to identify weak points
- Implement strong safety protocols in all company operations
- Conduct monthly risk management training for team leaders
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of training
- Identify suitable risk management curriculum for team leaders
- Arrange appropriate training schedules for leaders
2. OKRs to boost sales volume and ensure long-term company sustainability
- Boost sales volume and ensure long-term company sustainability
- Develop two new client relationships for potential future sales agreements
- Identify potential clients aligning with our product/service offerings
- Develop and present tailored proposals to identified clients
- Reach out to potential clients, initiate discussions
- Implement cost-saving measures to improve net profit margin by 10%
- Evaluate and optimize supplier contracts for lower costs
- Optimize workforce management to reduce overtime payments
- Implement energy-saving procedures in company operations
- Achieve a 15% increase in sales by expanding our customer base
- Enhance customer service to improve retention rates
- Develop and implement an aggressive marketing strategy
- Identify and target new customer demographics
Strategic Measures 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 Strategic Measures 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
Most teams should start with a spreadsheet if they're using OKRs for the first time. Then, once you get comfortable you can graduate to a proper OKRs-tracking tool.
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 Strategic Measures OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
OKRs to improve the Disaster Recover process OKRs to expand our base of regular donors OKRs to enhance talent acquisition and retention strategies OKRs to deliver an excellent product with seamless usability OKRs to evaluate ozonation's effect on biofiltration process OKRs to successfully transition majority of vendors to ACH payments
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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