July 2023 Cohort

Learn how to efficiently set big, bold goals to help you focus on and achieve the most important change in your business or career.

Sara Lobkovich

OKR Coach, Principal Consultant, Creator of Evolutionary OKRs™ for Connected Strategic™ Organizations

No-BS OKRs

Edelman

WorkBoard

University of Washington

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) fight "we're doing a lot, but not achieving results" by quantifying measures of success and progress. This short course skips the buzz + dogma around OKRs. You'll use our Evolutionary OKRs™ framework to set your own measurable, useful OKRs.

Learn our simple Evolutionary OKR™ approach to create actually useful OKRs

Changemaker leaders and Thinkydoers™ teams, motivated to build a goal-aligned plan to achieve meaningful change and impact in your work

Chiefs of staff, business managers, and other strategic operators in organizations struggling with goal setting and achievement

Organizational and team leaders with big, bold goals who want to increase engagement, accountability, and ownership among your teams

Who this course is for:

What you’ll get out of this course

OKRs are the source of a ton of buzz and confusion. At their core, OKRs are about writing clear, objective success and progress measures that help you know when you're "on track" or "off track." We focus especially on Key Results since they're the most unique part of the OKR.

An essential, no-BS understanding of OKRs (and especially Key Results)

Writing OKRs can be a circular, confusing, time-wasting wordsmithing exercise with endless discussion and not enough critical thinking and important decisionmaking. Our coaching practices keep you focused on what's most important.

Key coaching and self-coaching questions to keep you unblocked

Participants work with and learn the actual tools we use to coach our corporate clients (at $5k+ per workshop) so you can skip the consultant and draft your own goals faster and with more ownership.

Mastery of our OKR Mad Libs One-Sheet and other quick references

We focus on OKRs on a page to avoid the "if I can't see it, it doesn't exist" phenomenon that affects other forms of strategic planning and expectation communication. You'll write and refine your OKRs quickly, so you can do what's ultimately most important: achieve your goals.

You'll leave with useful, clear, measurable OKRs on a single page

In the few days before we begin the course, I'll share a brief video that walks through some of the basic concepts we'll work with in this course so that when we kick off, we can get right down to the business of drafting.

Pre-work: Quick intro to Evolutionary OKRs + Prep your OKR Inputs

When we write OKRs, we're typically aligning them to our other important strategic inputs (and even better, reusing language and taking cues from existing strategic resources where possible about what our Os and KRs may be). This quick pre-work will help you find or identify your strategic inputs, to help you get ready to write your OKRs.

Pre-work: Identify your OKR Inputs

We'll begin our first class session with a comprehension check and Q&amp;A about the pre-work, to make sure we're all ready to practice. The outcome of this unit is confidence that you're ready to begin drafting, and, organized to do so efficiently.

Comprehension Check and Q&A on Evolutionary OKRs

During class, we'll have time for your big think: 20-30 minutes for you to think big about what would be truly incredible to achieve. This helps make sure you're setting inspired, aspirational OKRs designed to actually achieve change or necessary improvement.

The Big Think: Ideate your potential OKRs

On day two, I'll walk you step by step through the efficient, outcome-focused process I use to coach clients (and myself) through drafting OKRs, so that you can start with a blank page, and end with a complete draft of your OKRs. We'll stay focused on solid thinking and quick drafting, so you learn to write useful OKRs quickly and efficiently.

Facilitated OKR Creation

During our last class session, we'll complete two activities around OKR Workshopping to help you improve your draft OKRs: <ul><li>We'll look together at some examples from our cohort of excellent OKR drafts, and common areas of room for improvement</li><li>You'll review and self-assess your draft OKRs to ensure they're coherent, complete, and actually measurable.</li></ul>

OKR Workshopping & Improvement

We'll wrap up with a brief conversation about why we coach that you lock your OKRs for a period of implementation and learning after you set them, and some practices for increasing the likelihood of goal achievement (without complicated platforms, software or tracking systems). After our final Q&amp;A, you're ready to go implement your OKRs!

Transitioning to OKR achievement

Course syllabus

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Meet your instructor

We'll begin day 1 with a look back at our learnings from 2023, then we'll dive right into our "Big Think" to lay the foundation for goal-setting.

Day 1: Welcome!

Each class has a short skill-building portion, a demo or example of what we're going to practice that day, then a small group or independent drafting session with coach support. Each session ends with an open debrief, Q&amp;A, and a no-pressure work share to unstick progress.

Day 2: Objective Forming

On Day 3 we'll have a one-hour "Office Hours" session, for open time to work on your Objectives if needed. Sara will be available for chat-based Q&amp;A, so this is a great opportunity to ask questions about your specific environment!

Day 3: Body Doubling + chat Q&A

During this session we'll create objectively measurable Key Results, including learning how to identify measures of progress and success in hard to measure parts of the business.

Day 4: Key Result Forming

We'll have one more "Office Hours" session during week 2, for open time to work on your Key Results if needed. Sara will be available for chat-based Q&amp;A, so this is a great opportunity to ask questions!

Day 5: Body Doubling + chat Q&A

On our last day of class, we'll talk about how to shift our OKRs from idea to implementation, and we'll have our final Q&amp;A session!

Day 6: Implementation + Graduation!

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You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

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