Giant Talk: Where Strategy Meets Results13 Jan 2025

OKRs and the future: Staying relevant in a data-driven world

Welcome back to another episode of Giant Talk.

In this episode, we sit down with Jonathan Elliot, a seasoned CEO with a career spanning commercial sales & marketing, strategy consulting, and leadership. Jonathan shares his expertise on implementing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) in large, complex organisations and the unique challenges that come with it.

We discuss:

The role of OKRs: How OKRs help organisations scale, transform, and navigate crises
Building alignment: Creating a vision, clarifying roles, and ensuring teams stay aligned without disruption.
Future-focused thinking: Why OKRs should be tied to forward-looking metrics, not past performance.
Strategic Execution: Why success isn’t just about hitting “green” metrics but executing the strategy effectively.

Jonathan also highlights the universal value of OKRs for organisations of all sizes and the top benefits of implementing this framework effectively.

If you're ready to align your teams and drive meaningful outcomes, this conversation is packed with actionable insights.

Enjoy the episode!

If you have 3 minutes and would like to see how your goal setting/OKRs could have more impact, then why not give our maturity assessment a try? It’s free, you get your results right away and you can access it HERE

If you’d like to chat OKRs, then why not have a chat with our Founder, Roger? He’s a massive OKR geek and could talk about them for hours! You can fix up a call with him HERE

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