Sara Lobkovich, J.D., NBC-HWCStandard DIY OKR implementations often suffer from predictable problems that turn a methodology meant to create focus into a messy, time-intensive bureaucratic nightmare.
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It's always wild to me how rare it is for organizations to define the terms they use in strategy and goal setting. If you ask 100 people what strategy means, you're going to get 100 different answers.
Having a documented, shared strategy and goal language reduces confusion and increases alignment.
Read the full article: WTF are OKRs?
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A strong OKR practice connects vision to daily decisions and labor.
That’s how strategy becomes real for people -- when it helps them make decisions about how to invest their time + energy AND helps them decide what *not* to do.
Read the full article: WTF are OKRs?
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OKRs bring consistency to how progress is defined and evaluated, and consistency builds trust.
Read more in my freshly updated WTF are OKRs post (with video!) 👉 https://lttr.ai/AqfiT
In a lot of organizations, OKRs are about numbers and charts and graphs on a dashboard, and often they’re implemented because senior leadership wants more visibility into the organization’s progress.
But OKRs can be *so much more*
Have you ever heard of the 70/20/10 model?
Your 70%? Run-the-business work: known knowns, mandatories, milestones, delivery commitments. Completion is success. That belongs in delivery planning, not your OKRs.
Your 20% and 10%? That's where OKRs live. Work where mere completion isn't success.
One question makes the call: Is completion success?
If yes? That's delivery work, and it needs a plan.
If no? That's where key results come in.
So I'm finally building a few (secure, bespoke) AI-assisted workflows into my client work after hearing from a shocking percentage of employees at client orgs that they're using personal GPT accounts to support their OKR efforts because they don't have corp access. EEP.
It's been a wild Q1 ... incredible client work, a few highlights on the book front, and an unplanned website migration (which took me down the Claude Code rabbithole after 25 years away from coding -- my oh my how times have changed).
✨ I've always said that if I don't train agents on my IP someone else will ... and they are.
It's been a minute, so -- hi! I'm Sara Lobkovich. I help organizations stop struggling with OKR implementations and strategy operations that aren't working, and start doing less to achieve more. Stick around for updates and resources for ambitious, visionary CEOs, strategic force multipliers, and people who want to operate more strategically in their careers. For more information, I'll link my website and book in the comments, below!
I've been writing like mad, so if I can just dial down my perfectionism enough to hit "publish," you'll see excerpts here on LinkedIn, with some new work on my blog. From my new "what actually gets an OKR?" model to my POV on what genAI can and can't do in the OKR space, to an actual peek inside an OKR onboarding engagement flow (that might surprise you).