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Our Uber-FAQ for OKRs
We’ll collect all of our Objectives and Key Result Frequently Asked Questions here, so you have a one-stop place for simple, straightforward answers to questions about OKRs.
Expand your leadership toolkit with assessments
I’ve always found assessments helpful not only for personal development and self-knowing, but also for helping organizations develop a shared language around important topics in how we work together. I am a huge supporter of using assessments personally for self-discovery and increasing your understanding about yourself, your default modes, and non-default options for behavior. Here, I share the assessments I use most frequently in my coaching and consulting …
Back to Basics: Working with Evolutionary OKRs
Are you struggling with OKRs? Do you want to learn a better way to set and achieve your goals using the OKR methodology? OKR stands for Objectives and Key Results, and it's a powerful way to align your organization, measure your progress, and drive results. But not all OKR implementations are created equal. Her, you’ll get an unscripted introduction to working with Evolutionary OKRs, a new approach that adapts OKRs to be successfully implemented and operationalized in businesses large and small.
The No-BS OKR Maturity Model
For the last couple of years I've been working with clients around a maturity model, but this is the first time I've written about it or tried to share it outside of work with my clients. (And even my clients haven't all seen this yet!)
This is the second of three frameworks that I share in the No-BS OKRs Playbook.
Even early in my work with organizations implementing OKRs, I noticed patterns to the challenges, behaviors, and practices that organizations experienced trying to implement OKRs without a cohesive and coherent “playbook.” Those patterns informed a maturity model that I now use with clients to help them make decisions about what to focus on to improve their own OKR implementations.