No-BS OKRs Workshop
Transform How Your Organization Sets Goals in Just 60 Minutes
Stop struggling with OKRs that don't drive real change.
This high-impact one hour workshop with OKR Coach Sara Lobkovich delivers immediate clarity and practical skills your team can apply the same day.
You’ll end this workshop with:
A clear vision that aligns teams without requiring perfect concensus
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Example and draft objectives that create clarity, focus, and alignment
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Example and draft key results that clarify empirically-verifiable progress and outcomes, not just activities
Immediate next steps for implementing No-BS OKRs behaviors and practices in your organization
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What makes this No-BS OKRs workshop different?
Fast-Paced and Immediately Impactful
Unlike traditional training that drowns you in slides, theory, and talk track — after a quick vocabulary lesson, this workshop gets your team creating usable objectives and key results — collaboratively and individually — within minutes.
Proven Curriculum and Exercises
The curriculum and exercises used here are the same ones I use with OKR and strategic planning clients every single day — informed by patterns I’ve observed across 300+ global organizations and thousands of OKR practitioners. You’ll learn what actually works.
Led by Sara Lobkovich, OKR Master Coach
Your workshop is eveloped and facilitated by the creator of No-BS OKRs, an OKR implementation expert who has trained 2,000+ OKR coaches globally and transformed strategic planning for organizations from startups to the Fortune 500.
What Leaders Say After Working With Sara
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"If you've grown frustrated or intimidated by OKRs, working with Sara is exactly what you need. I gained tremendous clarity on my team's priorities, started taking action after our first session, and even had fun!"
- Michelle Vittus, Founder & CEO
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"It was so refreshing to not manage the process and to trust that you were driving to an outcome. This allowed me to noodle on and answer your questions more thoughtfully. You did an excellent job of creating a sense of space and time--it never felt rushed, and I felt like we could go on (relevant) tangents--and refocusing the discussion when necessary. My only complaint is that I would have loved to have a reason to keep working with you."
- Confidential, Senior Leader, Professional Services
“Is the workshop ✨really✨ only an hour?”
Yes! With time left over for Q&A!
Align on Essential Words & Meanings
Learn simple, do-able definitions for key OKR terms
The Big Think Exercise
Create your vision of change to inform inspired, aspirational, transformational goals
Create Objectives
Develop Objectives in minutes, not hours, days, or weeks
Develop Key Results
Practice thinking creatively about imiportant measurable impacts beyond instrumented business measures
What is your team’s biggest OKR challenge?
Matrix organization complexity where inconsistency and incoherence in approach from team to team makes cross-functional alignment difficult (or impossible)
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Activity-focused key results based on subjective progress estimates, not actual impact, which leave people wondering what needs a key result (or, in key result overwhelm)
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Prioritization uncertainty and the distracting question and concern about whether you're focusing on the “right” things
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Measurement challenges where you operate without much meaningful data (or, struggle with too much); or in parts of the business where impact feels difficult to quantify
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A lack of experimentation where we see most or all of your key results in the green (or, at zero % achieved in the red)
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… or something else? I’ve seen it all. Let me know your specific OKR (or performance, or cultural) challenges, and I can design custom examples and approaches specifically for your organization
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The No-BS OKRs Workshop is perfect if you:
Are Stuck in Activity-Based Planning
You may struggle to connect day-to-day tasks with meaningful outcomes and need a practical approach to measuring what matters.
Have Cross-Functional Dependencies
You may find it difficult to create alignment across departments with different priorities and need a shared language for defining success.
Have a Struggling OKR Implementation
You may have tried OKRs but found them too complex, confusing, burdonsome, redundant, or disconnected from how your teams actually work.
Are Experiencing Rapid Growth or Change
You may need better alignment tools as you scale or navigate market shifts but can't afford lengthy implementation processes — and need simple, easy-to-understand OKR guidance for frequent new hires.
If you’re using OKRs today, your team will practice with your actual objectives and key results, receiving real-time feedback and improvement strategies.
If you’re not yet using OKRs, we'll use your existing strategic priorities as the foundation, helping you translate them into the No-BS OKR framework.
Meet Your OKR Guide
Sara Lobkovich
How the methods you’ll experience in this transformation experience are different:
This workshop delivers my expertise as an OKR Master Coach in a fast-paced, interactive format. After working with 2,000+ OKR coaches across 300+ global organizations, I've distilled the most impactful practices into 60 focused minutes of transformation.
The workshop approach is:
Empirically grounded. No theoretical frameworks here. Every exercise and technique comes from observing what actually works in organizations like yours. You'll practice proven patterns that create measurable outcomes, not just good-looking documentation.
Context-specific, not cookie-cutter. The workshop adapts to your unique organizational structure, challenges, and goals. You'll apply each concept directly to your real-world situations, making the learning immediately relevant to your context.
Immediately actionable. This isn't about creating perfect OKRs someday. You'll create draft objectives and key results during the workshop itself, with practical tools you can implement immediately after the session ends.
With this focused approach, your team will move beyond just understanding OKR concepts to actively applying them to your most important strategic challenges.
Skip the extended training cycles and theoretical discussions. In just one hour, gain the clarity and practical skills to make OKRs actually work for your organization.
Get OKRs Right
The cost of failed OKR implementations extends far beyond wasted time and resources. When organizations get OKRs wrong, they often spend 6-12 months spinning their wheels, waste five or six figures in direct costs put toward OKR software and consulting, and lose incalculable momentum on strategic initiatives.
Even worse, failed implementations often damage team trust and make future strategic change initiatives even more difficult.
Getting OKRs right from the start transforms this equation:
Avoid common implementation pitfalls that waste resources
Start seeing measurable progress within the first quarter
Build momentum that accelerates strategic execution
Create a foundation for sustained organizational alignment
Develop clear metrics that prove strategic impact
This workshop experience gives you the strongest possible start. Don't risk months of wasted effort – get empirical clarity on your path to OKR success.
The Real Costs of Getting OKRs Wrong:
Lost strategic momentum as teams chase activities without measurable impact
Silos and misalignment when cross-functional dependencies aren't addressed
Talent disengagement when people don't see how their work matters
Operational inefficiency from pursuing activities rather than outcomes
Frequently-Asked Questions about the
No-BS OKRs One-Hour Workshop
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None! This workshop is designed for both OKR beginners and teams looking to improve existing implementations.
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Absolutely. Many organizations find this workshop most valuable when they're looking to revitalize a stalled implementation or add more rigor to their existing OKR process.
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Yes! The focused, no-fluff approach delivers immediate value. For teams that want to go deeper, extended formats are available.
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Most OKR training focuses on theory and structure. This workshop prioritizes application, using your real organizational challenges as the learning environment.
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Up to 15 participants is ideal for this format to ensure everyone can actively engage. Add-ons are available to meet the needs of larger groups.
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It is possible that some participants will leave this workshop with finished OKRs, but “finishing” OKRs isn’t our main purpose in this workshop. The goal here is to practice necessary skills and mindset shifts to enable OKR creation going forward.
Schedule Your Workshop
Tailored To Your Organization’s Needs
Live Virtual OKRs 101 Workshop
60-minute interactive session via the online meeting platform of your choice
Recording and materials provided afterward with Key Takeaways specific to your organization
A turn-key, no-prep, show-up-and-learn experience for you and your team
$2,500
For up to 15 participants
Want an upgraded or custom experience?
Content Customization Upgrade Option Available at Checkout
Add a 60-minute pre-training planning meeting
I’ll review and incorporateyour current OKRs or strategic goals, and
The training will be customized for your specific team or environment!
$5,000
TOTAL cost after $2,500 upgrade:
Custom Proposals Are Available For:
Travel and in-person delivery and facilitation
Packages with multiple delivery sessions
Extended sessions (90 min, 2 hour, 1/2 day, and full day programs available)
Larger group sizes (30+)
Add on follow-up deep-dive OKR creation coaching and/or a cohort-based OKR creation workshop to yield finished OKRs
Invoice-based purchasing instead of checkout-based purchasing
What You'll Gain From No-BS OKRs 101
Learn the foundational principles of No-BS OKRs by doing through quick, practical frameworks and simple, clear, definitions of key terms
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Create draft objectives and key results by focusing on your vision of change and your aspirations without stressing about whether you’re doing it “right”
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Practice my insightful "Big Think" exercise to ground your goal-setting in your vision of change to help you think beyond what’s urgent to what’s truly important
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Learn one simple question that will help you and your team reduce OKR overwhelm and decide when it’s important to write a key result vs. planning activity
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Key Takeaways Your Team Will Walk Away With
A vision-first approach to goal setting that uncovers hidden opportunities and aligns teams
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Creative, “yes, and” ways to create key results even in hard to measure or data-poor environments
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The "What's important and why it matters" framework for creating objectives that drive real purpose
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The 30/30/30 distribution principle for healthy OKRs that balance achievement with learning
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Not sure whether
No-BS OKRs
are right for you?
Take our No-BS OKRs Compatibility Quiz for a recommendation about whether No-BS OKR or another approach to goal-setting might be right for your organization!
Your result includes:
✅ Your current opportunity
✅ Resources tailored to your current state
✅ Trusted referrals for support if No-BS OKRs aren’t presently a fit
Answer seven quick questions to reveal your path to clearer direction, better alignment, and real results.
