No BS OKRs - Annual OKR Reset Edition

4.9

(16 ratings)

2 Weeks

Cohort-based Course

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

No BS OKRs - Annual OKR Reset Edition

4.9

(16 ratings)

2 Weeks

Cohort-based Course

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

Hosted by

Sara Lobkovich

OKR Master Coach, Principal Consultant, Creator of Evolutionary OKRs

Sara Lobkovich

OKR Master Coach, Principal Consultant, Creator of Evolutionary OKRs

Course overview

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

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.

Who this course is for:

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

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

What you’ll get out of this course

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

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.

Key coaching and self-coaching questions to keep you unblocked

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Course syllabus

9 live sessions • 12 modules • 10 lessons • 1 project

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Week 1
Week 1
Nov 6—Nov 12
Events
Nov
7
Session 1 - Retro + Big Think
Session 1 - Retro + Big Think
Tue, Nov 7, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM UTC
Nov
7
Post-workshop drafting time - continuation of original session zoom
Post-workshop drafting time - continuation of original session zoom
Tue, Nov 7, 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM UTC
Nov
8
Session 2 - Objective Forming
Session 2 - Objective Forming
Wed, Nov 8, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM UTC
Nov
8
Post-workshop drafting time - continuation of original session zoom
Post-workshop drafting time - continuation of original session zoom
Wed, Nov 8, 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM UTC
Nov
9
Body Doubling + Chat Q&A
Body Doubling + Chat Q&A
Thu, Nov 9, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM UTC
Modules
Course Mechanics and Links
Course Mechanics and Links
3 Lessons
2023 Retrospective & 2024 Reset Preparation
2023 Retrospective & 2024 Reset Preparation
1 Lesson
The Big Think
The Big Think
1 Lesson
A thinking session to dream big about what may be possible to achieve, without thinking about the format or type of goal that you're ideating. Get your best, most inspired thinking out of your head.
A thinking session to dream big about what may be possible to achieve, without thinking about the format or type of goal that you're ideating. Get your best, most inspired thinking out of your head.
Creating Objectives
Creating Objectives
1 Lesson • 1 Project
Bonus Resource: My newest "Leading with Evolutionary OKRs" PDF!
Bonus Resource: My newest "Leading with Evolutionary OKRs" PDF!
1 Lesson
Week 2
Week 2
Nov 13—Nov 18
Events
Nov
14
Session 3 - Key Result Forming
Session 3 - Key Result Forming
Tue, Nov 14, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM UTC
Nov
14
Optional: Post-workshop drafting time - continuation of original session zoom
Optional: Post-workshop drafting time - continuation of original session zoom
Tue, Nov 14, 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM UTC
Nov
15
Body Doubling + Chat Q&A
Body Doubling + Chat Q&A
Wed, Nov 15, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM UTC
Nov
16
Implementing OKRs + Graduation 🎉
Implementing OKRs + Graduation 🎉
Thu, Nov 16, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM UTC
Modules
Creating Key Results
Creating Key Results
0 Lessons • 0 Projects
Refining Key Results
Refining Key Results
0 Lessons • 0 Projects
Refining & Finalizing your OKRs to a Page
Refining & Finalizing your OKRs to a Page
0 Lessons • 0 Projects
Past cohort Day 3 recordings
Past cohort Day 3 recordings
3 Lessons
Exit survey!
Exit survey!
0 Lessons • 0 Projects
Please complete the exit survey to help us improve this learning experience for future cohorts!
Please complete the exit survey to help us improve this learning experience for future cohorts!
Bonus
Bonus
Modules
Other Tools & Resources!
Other Tools & Resources!
0 Lessons • 0 Projects
Other resources you can take with you for future use:

A Word version of the step-by-step for self-drafting in the future
A reimbursement email template, to request reimbursement for this course from your employer
Other resources you can take with you for future use:

A Word version of the step-by-step for self-drafting in the future
A reimbursement email template, to request reimbursement for this course from your employer
Extra optional resource: Motivation & OKRs
Extra optional resource: Motivation & OKRs
0 Lessons • 0 Projects
Goals and motivation often comes up in class -- here's an excerpt from one of the people leader trainings I host (including the notes!) with some of the Motivation Science research notes I mentioned. The short version:

Available research shows that setting the highest and most difficult goals produces the highest levels of effort and performance (mostly through extending duration toward goal achievement -- not necessarily intensity). Locke & Latham are the grandfathers of this research, still relied upon today.
Goals and motivation often comes up in class -- here's an excerpt from one of the people leader trainings I host (including the notes!) with some of the Motivation Science research notes I mentioned. The short version:

Available research shows that setting the highest and most difficult goals produces the highest levels of effort and performance (mostly through extending duration toward goal achievement -- not necessarily intensity). Locke & Latham are the grandfathers of this research, still relied upon today.

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Free resource

Download a TLDR* Excerpt of The Evolutionary OKRs Playbook

We're in our second Beta release of our new Evolutionary OKRs Playbook, but you don't have to wait to get a sneak peek.

This free download is a draft excerpt from the manuscript in progress that includes only the essential pages to help you learn essential words and meanings of Evolutionary OKRs, see examples of completed OKRs, and gain early access to some of our draft worksheets to help you form your own OKRs.

This is the Playbook we use in our highly-rated No BS OKRs course, and now you can get a sneak peek!

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Meet your instructor

Sara Lobkovich

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

Early in my career, I struggled to understand unspoken and shifting organizational expectations, and the moving goal posts of "success," which often seemed arbitrary or out of reach. As a senior executive, that tension grew. I found myself in new compression zones between our annual plan and my team, with strategic plans and implementation activities that weren't aligned.

These experiences led me to the practice of OKRs -- Objectives and Key Results -- which help fill the alignment and clarity gap between durable strategies and implementation plans. The excitement around OKRs is huge: but the lack of coherent practical application information available was a barrier. So I created a coherent, useful, and intuitive approach to connecting strategy to execution through the Connected Strategic Stack, and a unique approach to Evolutionary OKRs for change-making organizations where people matter.

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