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Here, you’ll find resources we create to help teams create, implement, and operationalize No-BS OKRs™ (called Evolutionary OKRs® in some workplaces) to set clear goals, stay focused, and build cultures of growth, learning, and high performance.

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Are your goals for the new year on track?
Thinkydoers Sara Lobkovich Thinkydoers Sara Lobkovich

Are your goals for the new year on track?

By this point in the year -- 1/3 of the way through Q1 -- many of us have already abandoned any New Years Resolutions we set -- and in our work lives, we may still be digging out from year-end, having missed a month of achievement toward our 2022 goals. We're not going to start with goal-setting today -- most of you have already done that step.

Instead, we're going to learn a bit more about the types of goals you've set already, and share a few simple steps to help you get your goal achievement plan on track.

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Leading Change

The leader’s role is to operate in the most complicated intersections of their organization’s Venn diagrams. We must project optimism and confidence to internal and external stakeholders. And, we must also recognize and address risks and pain points in ways that may call for curiosity and vulnerability.

These resources help (sometimes frustrated) leaders of change get curious about their organizations’ frictions and build leadership habits designed to walk the talk of transformation.

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Useful Objectives & Key Results

OKRs are a focus and alignment tool that help organizations organize to achieve greater impact, unlock motivation, increase accountability, reduce wasted effort, and work better together.

Here you’ll find simple step-by-step resources to help you create and implement an approach to OKRs (in the context of your existing methodologies and frameworks) that will actually get used and drive impact.

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The Podcast

Thinkydoers is where we shift out of our heads and whiteboard drawings and work to find language for our thought-work and stories.

Each episode tackles a question, a thought experiment, or a resource intended to help you reduce frustration and friction, and increase satisfaction and flow, in your work.

Courses & Community

Thinkydoers, frustrated change agents, overthinkers, and challengers of the status quo:

You’ve found your people.

Here you’ll find our library of free downloadable tools, results-focused online learning options, and other ways to connect through our communities. Draft Evolutionary OKRs Playbook