OKR Consultants The under-appreciated skills of an OKR Consultant Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are more than just a corporate buzzword; they are transformative tools that, when implemented effectively, can drive a company’s growth and success. OKR consultants play a pivotal role in this transformation, offering much more than just routine training sessions. Reflecting on […]
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The Full Spectrum of Benefits our Strategy & OKR Consultants Deliver
OKR Consultancy The Full Spectrum of Benefits our Strategy & OKR Consultants Deliver As a consultant specializing in strategy and OKRs, I have had the opportunity to work with several businesses that have leveraged the expertise of external experts to gain a competitive edge. While the benefits of hiring external experts are well-known, numerous hidden […]
Make More Effective Decisions By Navigating Behavioural Biases
OKR Consultants Make More Effective Decisions By Navigating Behavioural Biases As someone who has participated in numerous team meetings and workshops, I have seen firsthand how behavioural biases can affect the outcome of these gatherings. It is essential to recognize and overcome these biases to enhance team productivity and achieve better outcomes. Written by Matt […]
The best way to jumpstart OKR: Forget about OKR
As an OKR consultant I encounter the same problem time and again. Teams and managers understand too little WHAT they actually want to achieve. And translate what they do not fully understand into OKR. Garbage In, Garbage Out That’s why I propose a simple OKR hack. The best way to jumpstart OKR: Forget about OKR […]
OKR Implementations
OKR implementation engagements can arise in any number of ways, with the most frequent we see being either as a result of an awareness of the framework at senior leadership level (top level down), or where a mid level executive has worked within another business that adopted them, and believes the framework would work well […]
Getting Key Results Right
Perhaps the hardest thing to grasp about OKRs is the concept of key results. This is because the obvious way to see them – and in a way I’ve been guilty of myself on occasions – is as small pieces of the objectives. It is too easy to see the key results as lego bricks […]
The science of OKRs | Engaging your neurocircuits to achieve more
More than one audience has posed the question of whether the OKR methodology is here to stay. There are different views on this. Some being that it will evolve, that it will mesh in with other methodologies, or that it might change names to something more appropriate. For us, the name is not that important. […]
Why OKRs Fail: Top 5 OKR Fails You Need To Know And How To Avoid Them
Why do OKRs fail? Why OKRs fail is one of the first questions most people ask OKR consultants. Most systems/frameworks/approaches to anything organisational or technological always have both their fans and detractors, it’s not unexpected for activities like OKRs to fail. It is rarely irrational; most people quite reasonably just go on their own experience. […]
Using OKRs to make strategy actionable
Economy has always been a constantly changing mindset executed under a certain regulatory framework. However, over the past 20 years transformation cycles sped up tremendously. The main driver is a steady but volatile globalization process, which is increasingly based on network structures and digital connectivity. Agile and dynamic strategic management of organizations is key to […]
Overcoming the main pitfalls when setting OKRs
OKRs are trending. Like any good trend, there’s loads of information! But with more information comes more questions. There are many sources on the internet that talk about OKRs, but they don’t always tell you how to do it right. When I search for “how to set OKRs”, I end up with a lot of […]
