Simplifying OKRs: A New Manager’s Guide
In this blog, I will provide the benefits of OKRs, how to adopt them as a New Manager, and a few best practices while using OKRs.
I had written this blog originally for Substack. I am sharing on the Medium.com platform as well. In case, you want to check out my Substack blogs, here is the link.
Before, I dive into the simple framework to adopt OKR, let me talk about a few benefits and challenges.
The Benefits
OKR stands for Objectives and Key Results.
OKR framework was designed to help organizations and teams achieve their most important goals.
Here are the top 5 benefits, that you can see if the OKR framework is adopted correctly.
Benefit#1: Alignment
OKRs make the entire team or organization align to a single goal. This improves collaboration among the team members.
Benefit#2: Focus
A clearly defined OKR helps to bring focus on the items that matter the most. This focus helps in improving productivity among the team members.
Benefit#3: Transparency
OKRs are defined for the whole team or organization, which brings visibility to…
