6 customisable OKR examples for Teamwork
What are Teamwork 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.
OKRs are quickly gaining popularity as a goal-setting framework. But, it's not always easy to know how to write your goals, especially if it's your first time using OKRs.
To aid you in setting your goals, we have compiled a collection of OKR examples customized for Teamwork. Take a look at the templates below for inspiration and guidance.
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 Teamwork OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different Teamwork 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 promote an environment fostering teamwork, learning, and growth
Promote an environment fostering teamwork, learning, and growth
Implement a mentorship program achieving 80% participation
Define objectives and scope of the mentorship program- Promote program and encourage participation
- Identify potential mentors and train them
- Facilitate 10 team-building activities that drive collaborative learning
- Implement and supervise team-building sessions
- Research suitable team-building exercises that promote collaborative learning
- Create a plan outlining the 10 chosen activities
- Increase team skills improvement by 25% through specialized training sessions
- Research current team skills and identify areas for improvement
- Hire professional trainers for specialized training sessions
- Monitor and evaluate progress post training
2. OKRs to improve team performance through effective teamwork and collaboration
- Improve team performance through effective teamwork and collaboration
- Reduce conflicts within the team by 50% by implementing conflict resolution strategies
- Encourage active listening and empathy among team members during conflicts
- Establish a clear communication protocol to address conflicts promptly
- Implement a mentorship program to provide guidance and support during conflict resolution
- Conduct a team-wide conflict resolution training session
- Develop team members' skills by organizing at least two team-building workshops focused on enhancing collaboration and problem-solving abilities
- Increase team productivity by 20% through enhanced communication and coordination
- Provide effective communication tools and train team members on how to use them
- Implement regular team meetings to discuss progress, challenges, and goals
- Encourage collaboration by assigning cross-functional projects and fostering teamwork
- Develop a centralized system for task tracking, deadlines, and accountability
- Enhance employee satisfaction and engagement by achieving an average team happiness score of 8 out of 10
- Implement employee recognition programs to celebrate achievements and boost team morale
- Analyze survey results to identify areas for improvement and develop targeted action plans
- Provide regular opportunities for employee feedback and implement suggestions for enhancing happiness
- Conduct quarterly employee satisfaction surveys to measure team happiness score
3. OKRs to boost teamwork and development via regular manager-employee meetings
- Boost teamwork and development via regular manager-employee meetings
- Implement a standardized meeting schedule for managers and their onsite teams by week 2
- Select a consistent time and day for weekly manager-team meetings
- Communicate proposed schedule to the managers and teams
- Incorporate feedback and finalize weekly meeting schedule
- Achieve a 20% increase in the employee development index by quarter end
- Implement mandatory professional development workshops
- Foster a mentorship program within the organization
- Increase feedback and coaching sessions
- Conduct at least two remote team-building activities each month
- Facilitate the planned team-building sessions
- Schedule the activities on team calendar
- Identify suitable remote team-building exercises
4. OKRs to acquire the company award for exceptional teamwork
- Acquire the company award for exceptional teamwork
- Improve overall team performance by 35% compared to last quarter's productivity
- Enhance project management strategies
- Implement weekly performance review and feedback sessions
- Increase training and skill development sessions
- Lead a collaborative project successfully involving at least four different departments
- Encourage regular communication among teams
- Implement project management tools for coordination
- Arrange cross-departmental meetings to discuss project goals
- Conduct bi-weekly team-building activities resulting in higher engagement scores
- Analyze results to continually enhance team-building approaches
- Implement measures to evaluate engagement during activities
- Outline and schedule varied bi-weekly team-building activities
5. OKRs to cultivate a harmonious, integrated team environment
- Cultivate a harmonious, integrated team environment
- Increase our team's collaborative project completion rate by 30%
- Provide team-building activities to enhance cooperation
- Use project management software for task tracking
- Implement weekly progress meetings to establish clarity
- Foster interdepartmental collaborations in at least 2 separate projects
- Identify opportunities for collaboration in existing projects
- Develop shared goals and timelines for these collaborative projects
- Organize collaborative brainstorming sessions between departments
- Reduce internal communication conflicts by 25% through conflict management training
- Monitor and evaluate effectiveness of training periodically
- Implement regular conflict management training for staff
- Provide employees with feedback and additional resources
6. OKRs to enhance teamwork across different departments
- Enhance teamwork across different departments
- Achieve participation of all department heads in bi-weekly collaboration meetings
- Remind participants about meeting via email or text
- Send meeting invites to all department heads in advance
- Provide a clear agenda for every meeting
- Implement 5 cross-departmental projects with shared KPIs and responsibilities
- Launch and monitor cross-departmental projects for effective implementation
- Identify potential departments for collaboration on shared KPI projects
- Define shared KPIs and responsibilities for each project
- Increase cross-team employee satisfaction rates by 20% through regular feedback loops
- Create recognition programs for cross-team collaborations
- Implement regular cross-team meetings for feedback exchange
- Introduce a system for anonymous feedback submissions
Teamwork 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
Focus can only be achieve by limiting the number of competing priorities. It is crucial that you take the time to identify where you need to move the needle, and avoid adding business-as-usual activities to your 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
Having good goals is only half the effort. You'll get significant more value from your OKRs if you commit to a weekly check-in process.
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 Teamwork 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
Spreadsheets are enough to get started. Then, once you need to scale you can use a proper OKR platform to make things easier.
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 Teamwork OKR templates
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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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