Get More from Your OKRs: Lessons from 15 Years of Coaching

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Get More from Your OKRs: Lessons from 15 Years of Coaching

Hosted by Christina Wodtke

Wed, Jul 16, 2025

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OKRs with Radical Focus: Moving from Goal-Setting to Goal-Achieving

Christina R Wodtke

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Wed, Jul 16, 2025

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OKRs with Radical Focus: Moving from Goal-Setting to Goal-Achieving

Christina R Wodtke

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What you'll learn

How to Set to Effective Objectives and Key Results

Does it matter if you put a number in an Objective or if your Key Results are projects? What are best practices?

How To Use OKRs for Continuous Improvement

Learn how to structure OKRs so your organization is constantly getting more effective.

When to Use OKRs and When Not To

Should everybody have OKRs? When does that backfire? When does that supercharge the organization?

Why Your OKRs Don't Matter As Much As How You Use Them

Learn what makes OKRs actually work and how to weave them into your day-to-day rhythm.

Why this topic matters

Many people try to adopt OKRs and fail. Then they call me. In this lesson, I'll help you avoid the most common pitfalls in adopting OKRs. OKRs are a powerful methodology for achieving your strategy and making your goals. But even more, they can help your company grow, learn and suceed.

You'll learn from

Christina Wodtke

OKR coach; author of Radical Focus; Stanford lecturer; startup growth expert.

Christina has helped grow LinkedIn, Yahoo, Zynga, the New York Times and numerous startups throughout Silicon Valley. She’s the author of the business fable book Radical Focus, which uses the power of story to build a new approach to OKRs; The Team that Managed Itself on creating high-performing empowered teams; and Pencil Me In, on using drawing to make better businesses and products.

Christina currently teaches at Stanford in the HCI program in Computer Science. She speaks worldwide about humane workplaces, compassionate teamwork and the journey to excellence.

Find out more at cwodtke.com.

Previously at Yahoo, Zynga, LinkedIn