Just starting to explore OKRs and how they can drive better strategy execution and performance? Use these resources to learn more about what OKRs are, how they flow through your operating rhythm, and how to use them to propel your organization’s performance.
“We leaned on WorkBoard’s consulting expertise to build a tight execution team. We took a very intentional approach to rollout."
— Esi Minta-Jacobs, EVP, CEO Chief of Staff, Assetmark
“We didn’t set up new cadences — we baked OKRs and outcomes into the meetings we already have. WorkBoardAI makes it possible for us to act on data instead of instinct."
— Priscilla Christopher, Information Digital Technology & Security Strategy & Business Operations, Product & Program Management Chapter Leader, Boeing
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Learn how OKRs fit into the rhythm of the business as a key to accelerating strategy achievement. |
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You need a strategy worth executing and execution worthy of your strategy. |
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Do you have a framework for your teams to achieve their best? |
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The only reasons to implement OKRs is to improve strategy execution and drive peak organizational performance. |
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Get answers to the most common questions about OKRs like how they connect to compensation, what threshold to set, how they align, and more in this easy-to-read guide. |
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Use this seminar recording to help technology and product teams and others understand the difference between output and outcome, why an Outcome Mindset is so powerful and how to measure results effectively. |
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Author Jeff Gothelf shares his approach to cultivating a product-focused mindset across large, complex enterprise organizations. |
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2-day program for practitioners and enthusiasts. |
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6-month cohort for program leaders |
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As you plan your journey and develop a rollout plan, you’ll want to assess the friction points in your current operating rhythm, draft a business value roadmap and OKRs for OKRs with your executive sponsor, anchor on best practices, consider your overall scope, chat with a coach, and hear other organizations’ launch insights.
“When I think about scaling OKRs out to thousands of employees... we couldn't do it without a tool."
— Anna Birch, Chief of Staff, Cisco Security Business Group
As you plan to improve strategy alignment and execution, develop
an intentional roadmap with your executive sponsor that defines
stages and value achievement. Your approach should help the
organization drive better outcomes, not just create another
document or reporting exercise. Setting OKRs alone rarely
produces great results – use them to align on outcomes and bring
them into the operating cadence to create high focus.
Implementing OKRs for strategy execution without a system is a
little like implementing CRM and forecast calls without a platform
– you can do it, but it will be plagued by bad data, bad facts,
bloated meetings, and reporting scrambles that undermine the
execution speed and transparency you’re trying to create.
Transparency is table stakes for cross-functional alignment and
high-speed execution; if these are your intent then a system of
record is essential.
“We have an ERP equivalent for finance, for HR, for sales, for marketing. But what’s our ‘ERP’ for strategy and execution? WorkBoardAI."
— Sam Wilson
CEO, 8x8
“The platform helps us streamline our OKR process by creating more visibility, alignment and momentum across the organization. It's reducing the manual lift required to coordinate goal setting and performance tracking, especially across our global teams."
— Susanna Mikaelyan, VP of Global Talent Management, Pax8
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What pitfalls do your organization's results management leaders face over the first year of the journey towards peak enterprise performance? |
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The traditional operating rhythm fueled by people-intensive meetings and slide decks can no longer meet the needs of today's competitive market. Learn how a Digital Operating Rhythm helps your organization accelerate strategy execution and make the most of the resources that you have. |
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Rapid fire insights on what to expect on the journey to peak performance, how to avoid unnecessary mistakes, and be the highest performing company in your arena. |
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Esi Minta-Jacobs, EVP, CEO Chief of Staff at AssetMark, shares how their OKR program is increasing execution capacity at all levels of the organization. |
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Harry Blease from Virgin Media O2 started with the “why” of OKRs – alignment, accountability, transparency – as the foundation for his implementation, then focused on making it very simple for teams to engage and reap the benefits. |
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The Results Management team from VMware outlines their enterprise wide rollout, their impressive launch messaging, and how central OKRs and WorkBoard are to their CEO. |
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Learn the 4 common communication fails that undermine strategy operations leaders and executives and the simple word judo moves that work. |
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Use this playbook to help make key decisions about how you will run the results management process for your organization. |
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This communication guide for change agents can help you get key stakeholders on board and build momentum. |
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The most important thing you can do as you drive this change forward is keep the “why” front and center! Avoid the acronyms and concentrate on the purpose of the change, the value of alignment, accountability and transparency for the organization and everyone in it. Few people know why they need to do OKRs; everyone knows why they need to align on objectives and the results their org is trying to achieve and be transparent about them.
“Before WorkBoard, our strategy lived in a secret room — great
slides, but no clarity. We went from people guessing at priorities
to every associate seeing how their work ladders up…"
— Beth Dawson, Director, Strategic Initiatives, Mars
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OKRs are powerful drivers of peak enterprise performance, but can be a double edged sword if you're over-zealous. |
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When driving adoption of OKRs as a strategy execution framework, you can avoid losing sight of your business strategy amidst jargon and indirection by making a few simple changes in how you communicate. |
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What pitfalls do your organization's results management leaders face over the first year of the journey towards peak enterprise performance? |
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The fastest way to improve as a leader is to get the foundations right. If you’re spinning trying to eke out 1% improvements, you’re probably missing the opportunity to transform your leadership and team’s performance. Here are 3 20-50% improvements you can make today. |
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Why asking for “KR updates” may be undermining your actual results. |
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Align on key results on Monday, then celebrate progress on Friday. |
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Introspection is the key to great OKRs and outcomes. See how smart teams use OKRs to celebrate, learn, and improve. |
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In OKRs, as in life, talking about the hard things is vital to achieving your goals. |
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As the saying goes Rome wasn’t built in a day, and you aren’t going to transform strategy execution in quarter or two! Set the right expectations for the transformative impact you will have over time; use your roadmap to communicate gains and learnings each quarter and to communicate the strategy execution improvements in the next stage of the journey. Each year as you refresh your strategy, refresh your strategy execution cadence and focal points to optimize achievement – both strategy and execution must be continuously adapted in a fast changing world.
“WorkBoard is indispensable for driving organizational clarity. It's the backbone of
our operating model."
— Erik Huddleston, CEO, Aprimo
“We chose WorkBoardAI to drive strategy execution in a faster-changing world. Its AI
will help us improve strategic clarity, focus, operational rigor and coaching as we deliver on our vision."
— Peter Ter Kulve, President, Ice Cream at Unilever
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Jaclyn Pedersen, Director of OKR Strategy and Alignment at GHX, lays out how she's improving alignment and execution, from workshops with cross-functional VPs, to retrospectives focused on learning, to making accountability easier for everyone. |
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Alexis Kearns, Chief People Officer, and Jaclyn Pedersen, Director of OKR Strategy and Alignment at GHX share how they are helping managers effectively connect the company strategy to team execution. |
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OKRs and revenue metrics should be visible together and serve different purposes. |
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Sam Wilson, CEO of 8x8, discusses strategy execution and why WorkBoard is essential to successfully thread long range strategy to current quarter strategic priorities and OKRs, to the operational meetings and 1on1s that move people and decisions forward. |
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Bharath Oruganti, EVP at Q2 Inc shares how changing his management model and cadence helped him eliminate confusion about strategic priorities, simplify work for his team, and ensure he spots risks to those priorities in less than a week to maximize his outcomes. |
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Organizations have matured their approach to OKRs, strategy execution and the connection with individual performance over the past few years. Now, AI is radically improving strategy execution — learn how you can take full advantage. |
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