Learn No-BS OKRs™ Coaching Live!

OKR Master Coach and creator of No-BS OKRs, Sara Lobkovich, offers Coaching No-BS OKRs twice a year to the public.

Want a spot on the waitlist?

Are you:

  1. An experienced OKR coach looking for more efficient and effective ways to help teams create OKRs?

  2. A non-OKR professional coach looking to add new specialty skills in goal setting to your toolkit?

  3. Or, are you an OKR practitioner or OKR-curious person who’s interested in taking your skills to the next level by completing the deepest available training with No-BS OKRs?

If so, complete the application form and we’ll let you know when the next cohort is scheduled.

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COURSE OVERVIEW

Learn a simple, No-BS OKR approach to create and coach OKRs that you, your team, and your clients will actually use

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) help you quantify your most important measures of success and progress. This learning intensive blends self-paced asynchronous learning, live learning sessions, and self-scheduled practice sessions with instructor feedback, with peer community support to help you learn the No-BS OKRs™ framework by doing.

You’ll learn how to coach any team, in any industry, at any level of the organization, to results-focused Objectives and Key Results, efficiently, effectively, and sustainably.

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Who this course is for:

This course is available year-round to organizational clients with private cohorts; but it’s only offered once or twice a year to the general public.

If you’d like to schedule a private OKR Coach Training for your organization, please reach out!

  • Develop your own leadership "coaching habits" to lead your organization with confidence and a focus on results, not just activity.

  • If you're an internal team member who works with OKRs, this course will help you develop the confidence and skills to support any leader and team in the organization with creation of high-quality, aligned, best-practice OKRs.

  • Do you struggle to help clients make quantifiable progress or achieving their big goals? As a professional coach, goal setting is of course a core competency, but you may still struggle to get clients focused on outcomes, not just activity. This learning experience is all about coaching clients toward measurable impact, and supporting them along the achievement journey.

Hear from past participants:

  • I appreciated the amount of structured practice available, the scenarios, and the excitement and Sara's excitement and passion. The deep dive into understanding OKRs pushed me to really think about aspirations and achievements, about celebrating the wins, and about reframing losses as opportunities. This was time well spent.

    - Kaylan C.

  • Truly appreciate the thoughtful and adaptive OKR Coach training. Without a doubt it will better prepare me for future conversations, whether they be in a coaching or participant capacity. It certainly helped t demystify the jargon and to frame the process as one of curiosity and continuous learning. I'm excited to see how I'll be able to use my new skills to find common and audacious goals.

    - Melanie L.

  • This OKR Coach Training helped me to understand how our teams can cascade the right work down to the appropriate levels in our business. This has been a challenge in the past. Now that we have a core team of coaches that understands how to implement OKRs and can help navigate through a clear process, our teams will finally be aligned in the right work.

    - Dave P.

  • Completing the OKR Coach Training made me grow in my confidence to support coaches! It made me realize that we will never grow if we dn't aspire, and that aspirational key results are a good thing. I appreciate the OKR mindset thta there can be wins AND learnings when reflecting on OKR progress.

    - Liz W.

What To Expect

  • Completion of 15 hours of training material over the course of two weeks

  • Five live half-days of learning, with the ability for time-shifting via course replays

  • At least two self-scheduled OKR coaching practice sessions with a classmate, video recorded and submitted for individualized feedback

  • A small cohort of participants with high instructor 1:1 engagement, since this learning experience is by application only and is not open to the general public

  • Full access to the actual frameworks, tools, and resources we use here at Red Currant Collective to help clients create OKRs that actually achieve strategic impact and change

  • All in a supportive, learning-focused environment designed to help you learn the difference between solutioning and coaching, so you can build a successful, sustainable OKR coaching practice!

About Your Instructor: OKR Master Coach, Sara Lobkovich

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Founder and Principal Consultant of Red Currant Collective, Sara is an accomplished OKR coach and coach trainer. Sara has trained 2,000+ coaches in 300+ organizations globally (and counting). Sara’s qualifications to teach this course include:

  • Completed OKR Coach Training in 2020 (Workboard, Inc)

  • Recognized by Workboard as an “OKR Master Coach” (2020)

  • Completed Post-Graduate Certificate in Positive Psychology Health and Wellness Coaching (2021), a professional coach certification program via College of Executive Coaching

  • National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) status pending Exam completion late July, 2024

  • Member, OKR Mentors, a global community of OKR coaches

  • Completed 1,000+ hours of OKR Coaching for clients from Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 organizations, to smaller high-growth start-ups and closely-held organizations

About This Learning Experience

This is our most comprehensive deep-dive into No-BS OKRs, suitable for aspiring OKR coaches, as well as OKR core team members and dedicated OKR leaders. 

Participants who complete this course will learn and practice coaching others through the creation of No-BS Objectives and Key Results (No-BS OKRs) as a mechanism for communicating, and clarifying expectations, and achieving alignment with their teams and cross-functional partners.

Example Two-Week Course Schedule

The course calendar for Week one and week two, showing course days on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday for week one, and Tuesday and Friday of week two, with asynchronous self-scheduled practice on Wednesday and Thursday of week two.

This course is a step toward earning the title:

     No-BS OKR Coach!     

Not all course completers pursue the title of “No-BS OKRs Coach.” If you wish to, you can opt to participate in the following next steps.

After successfully completing this course, you may choose to complete an additional practicum (normally $599, discounted to $499 if you opt in during early-bird registration) which includes:

  • One additional course session on the mechanics of group coaching and best practices for OKR workshop preparation

  • A formal competency assessment based on video recorded coaching sessions. Some participants finish the initial course ready to demonstrate competency; others require additional practice and feedback to reach that level. 

  • Completing the course and practicum does not guarantee that you will achieve the title of “No-BS OKRs Coach” – the title must be earned. I’ll do my best to help you succeed, if you bring your curiosity and learning mindset to the challenge!

  • Successful completion of the Coach Practicum also gives you the opportunity to join my contract coach roster if you wish!

Do you have questions? Email us at hello@redcurrantco.com.

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 Coaching No-BS OKRs Workshop FAQs

  • Live sessions are recorded and posted as soon after class ends as possible. If you miss a live session, you are responsible for:

    1. Watching the course replay prior to the next course session; and

    2. Arranging practice time with a friend, family member, or classmate volunteer to make up the practice exercise(s) you missed.

  • Because of the volume of intellectual property this course grants you access to, this course is not refundable. If you have any concerns about whether this course is right for you, reach out to me for a 1:1 conversation before registering and I will answer any questions you have to ensure you’re completely confident about your purchase prior to checkout!

  • There is no other course where you'll receive this level of individualized attention and feedback from Sara. During the two-week window of this cohort, Coach Training is Sara's #1 priority. You'll receive support via:

    1. The course community;

    2. Our live sessions;

    3. Direct messaging with Sara;

    4. Q&A via asynchronous voice (using Voxer); and

    5. You'll receive feedback notes on your in-class practice as well as full, private feedback on your recorded practice sessions.

    If you don't succeed in this training, I don't succeed, so I will do everything in my power to ensure you have a successful learning experience!

  • All participants agree to confidentiality, and, our IP acknowledgment and agreement includes some information about how to protect and preserve your confidential information. If you have specific concerns or special confidentiality circumstances, please email hello@redcurrantco.com and we’ll work with you to ensure you can fully participate, while maintaining confidentiality requirements.

  • Live classes are currently planned to be delivered via our course community's live video functionality; but we may move to Zoom if our community live video classrooms prove not to be fully accessible.

    Some lessons are video-based — when they are, videos are either subtitled or have closed-captioning available and a transcript is provided; you can also select your own playback speed as needed.

    Some course materials are made available via PDF: when so, we use Acrobat’s Accessibility Checker to ensure materials are as accessible as possible. If you have specific accessibility needs, please reach out to hello@redcurrantco.com and we’ll do our best to accommodate (or, be honest if we are presently unable to).

  • Coaching No-BS OKRs (this course) is Sara’s OKR Expert course, which requires completion of the Building No-BS OKRs.

    Sara’s Building No-BS OKRs, is included with this course, and is an in-depth Level 1/2 course to help people achieve an intermediate level of competency with No-BS OKRs. Prior OKR experience is not required (and this course is often taken by beginners and OKR pros alike). The Building course includes substantially more instructional content, full-length recorded exercises, and a fully-supported course community.

    Get Started with No-BS OKRs is a fully asynchronous Level 1 (Beginner) introduction to No-BS OKRs, suitable as a first step in the learning journey of No-BS OKRs, with no OKR experience required. Support is provided for general Q&A via the limited course community, but 1:1 feedback and live sessions are not included in this course.

  • No! Many participants complete this training for learning and development purposes only, and do not require formal competency evaluation. The Practicum is designed for participants who wish to use the title "No-BS OKR Coach" or "No-BS OKRs Coach," which requires completion of the additional practicum training, and satisfactory demonstration of competency with No-BS OKR coaching practices. If you do not complete the practicum, you are permitted to say that you completed Coaching No-BS OKRs. If you satisfactorily complete the practicum, you are permitted to say that you are a No-BS OKR Coach.

Do you have questions not answered here?
Drop us an email, and we’ll get back to you ASAP!

What will you learn?

  • No-BS OKR Coaching Fundamentals

    • The Rebelutionary Mindset

    • Solutioning vs. Coaching, and Coaching Practice Basics

    • The Role of an OKR Coach

  • Coaching Objectives

  • Coaching Key Results

  • OKRs at Scale

    • OKRs by Level

    • Localizing OKRs

  • Independent asynchronous practice sessions with classmates to build your skills

  • Coaching OKR Achievement

    • OKR Coaching Mechanics Best Practices

    • Implementing OKRs

      • Communicating OKRs

      • Achieving OKRs

      • Tracking OKRs

    • Graduation!

And, you’ll have access to a wealth of optional resources in our resource library!

And then what?

  • When you complete this course, you’ll be invited to my OKR Coach Community for ongoing support as you embark on your OKR coaching career, and, there are other wonderful communities where OKR coaches gather that I’ll share info about!

  • If you wish to practice as a “No-BS OKRs Coach,” you can complete an optional, additional Practicum!

“What does it cost to participate?”

Regular registration tuition
(application received 8/10 and later)

$1,999

Includes the Building No-BS OKRs course prerequisite (a $495 value)

And, save $100 on the Optional Practicum Evaluation to pursue the title “No-BS OKR Coach” if purchased at initial checkout


($499 at checkout vs. $599 if purchased at or after course completion)

“How do I get started?”

  1. Apply:
    Participation in the No-BS OKRs Coach Training is by invitation only. Please apply by submitting the application form for a spot on the waitlist.

  2. Decide:
    Decide at checkout whether you wish to upgrade to pre-pay for the No-BS OKR Coach Competency Evaluation Practicum at the at-registration rate of $499 (regular price after completing the coaching course is $599).

  3. Compete the Pre-Requisite Course: Building No-BS OKRs:
    Upon acceptance and registration, you will be registered into the Coach Training pre-requisite course: Building No-BS OKRs.

    1. You must complete this fully asynchronous self-paced course to learn the fundamentals of No-BS OKRs prior to Day 1 of Coach Training.

    2. Building No-BS OKRs requires approximately four hours of learning time, but most students complete the course in multiple sittings over the course of one or two weeks.

    3. The cost of registering for Building No-BS OKRs (a $495 value) is included in your Coach Training registration fee.

    4. If you have previously completed Building No-BS OKRs (or the previous No-BS OKRs Course), please indicate so on your application for a returning student discount.

  4. Calendar block your participation schedule:

    1. This course must be completed on schedule and on time, during the two week live course window. You are encouraged to attend live as much as possible, for the most interactive and highest-quality learning experience.

    2. If you have conflicts with some course meetings, you may time-shift your live lesson attendance if necessary. If you must time-shift live lesson time, plan to complete the replay materials on the day delivered or prior to the next course session, so that you keep up with your cohort mates, and plan to arrange practice sessions with a family member, colleague, or friend, to catch up the practice exercises you miss live.

Apply now!

  • There is no obligation to apply. Applying adds you to a waitlist, and we’ll reach out when we’re scheduling our next cohort.

  • If you’d like to schedule a private OKR Coach Training for your organization, please reach out!