How to Implement Team Level OKRs Successfully (Workshop 4 of 4)

How to optimize team-level OKR workshops.

Avoid the common pitfalls that can inadvertently increase silo effects and learn how to embed alignment into all aspects of your OKRs program.

Ben walks you through how to get your teams going on OKRs by starting with a top-level OKR presentation as context along with OKR theory.

Here's a sample agenda:

Here is a sample agenda that we used with one of our clients:

8:00–9:00 am: Introductions, CEO briefing on OKRs journey
9:00–10:00 am: OKRs theory/refresher and review of top-level OKRs
10:00–11:00 am: Draft team-level OKRs
11:00–12:00 pm: Report backs and idea sharing
12:00–1:00 pm: Lunch
1:00–2:00 pm: Refine OKRs, participants interact outside their team to align on dependencies
2:00–2:45 pm: Report backs
2:45-3:00 pm: Next steps and key takeaways

Takeaways for Team-Level Workshops

Schedule team-level workshops after defining OKRs teams
Include members from multiple functional teams to foster cross-functional alignment
Begin with an overview of top-level OKRs to create context

Please comment or post questions in this post or even better, request a free 1:1 consult with Ben via Ben@OKRs

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