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What are Strategy Department 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 Strategy Department 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 Strategy Department 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.
Strategy Department OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different Strategy Department 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!
OKRs to effectively craft and define OKR for strategic clarity
ObjectiveEffectively craft and define OKR for strategic clarity
KRDevelop engaging, SMART, and unique KRs for each department
Gather insights on specific objectives for each department- Craft unique, measurable KRs aligned with these objectives
- Facilitate workshops for SMART KR development and engagement
- KRConduct training sessions on OKR interpretation and implementation for all team leads
- Evaluate and refine training impact periodically
- Develop comprehensive OKR interpretation and implementation curriculum
- Schedule regular training sessions for team leads
- KREstablish a monitoring process to track the progress of all OKRs
- Identify and assign team members responsible for monitoring each OKR progress
- Determine key metrics to measure progress of all OKRs
- Implement a tracking system to consistently record OKR data
OKRs to enhance inter-departmental collaboration for effective social media operations
- ObjectiveEnhance inter-departmental collaboration for effective social media operations
- KRPioneer a shared, online document housing all social media initiatives and updates
- Create structure for social media initiatives document
- Identify suitable online platform for shared document storage
- Update document regularly with initiatives and updates
- KRImplement weekly cross-departmental meetings focused on social media strategy by month-end
- Create a recurring weekly meeting schedule
- Outline the meeting agenda focusing on social media
- Identify key representatives from each department
- KRIncrease shared social media projects between departments by 20%
- Implement regular shared social media project progress reports across departments
- Develop a centralized social media project management tool for all departments
- Initiate weekly interdepartmental brainstorming sessions on social media projects
OKRs to develop an effective custom recruitment strategy for 100 roles
- ObjectiveDevelop an effective custom recruitment strategy for 100 roles
- KRIncrease recruitment team's interview capacities by 50%
- Hire additional qualified interviewers
- Implement efficient interview scheduling software
- Train team on conducting group interviews
- KRAchieve a 50% successful hire rate from shortlisted candidates
- Improve job descriptions to attract suitable candidates
- Implement a robust follow-up system post-interview
- Integrate competency-based interviews in the hiring process
- KRShortlist 200 quality candidates meeting job requirements
- Screen resumes and applications based on criteria
- Review job requirements and create candidate evaluation criteria
- Prepare a shortlist of 200 qualified candidates
OKRs to outline our comprehensive sales excellence strategy for 2025-2028
- ObjectiveOutline our comprehensive sales excellence strategy for 2025-2028
- KRIdentify top 3 industry sales trends to incorporate in the strategy
- Research recent studies on sales trends in the industry
- Analyze competitors' sales strategies and methods
- Incorporate sales trends into a revised business strategy
- KRSecure stakeholder approval for the implemented strategy changes
- Schedule meeting with stakeholders for strategy review
- Prepare detailed report on implemented strategy changes
- Present changes and obtain approval during meeting
- KREstablish an inter-departmental task force for strategy formulation by next meeting
- Draft and circulate a strategy formulation outline
- Arrange the first task force meeting agenda
- Identify key personnel from each department for the task force
Strategy Department 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
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 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 Strategy Department OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
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- OKRs to enhance IT operational efficiency through data-driven innovations
- OKRs to achieve full cybersecurity compliance across all systems
- OKRs to amplify professional relationships and foster mutual trust among teammates
- OKRs to enhance app personalization and customization
- OKRs to establish leadership in the AI industry