Objectives & Key Results: Everything You Need To Get Started

The clearest, simplest way to get started with OKRs for any role or industry

What you'll learn

What is an Objective & Key Result (OKR)

Why we should use OKRs

What good OKRs look like

How to deploy OKRs successfully

Requirements

No previous knowledge or experience with OKRs is required for this course

Description

This course will teach you why you need objectives and key results and how to write a good OKR statement. You will also be able to explain why we need to change the way we set goals and measure success to your colleagues, clients and executives.Objectives and Key Results are a modern way of setting goals that take human behavior into consideration as the measure of success rather than the production of work product. This course is the introductory path to OKRs for everyone in your organization. Regardless of whether you make customer-facing or not, you serve a human. This course will explain how to set goals that ensure you are serving that human successfully every day. As a foundation, this course puts the entire organization on the same page about OKRs. From there you can start your OKR implementation on much better footing. You've probably heard about OKRs or perhaps you've already tried it within your company. If the first time out was unsuccessful this course will help correct that. Through a series of clear, illustrated lectures and a handy workbook you'll work through real life examples and ensure everyone in the company has a shared understanding of the need for and value of using objectives and key results.

Overview

Section 1: What is this course about?

Lecture 1 OKRs in a nutshell and what you can expect from this course

Section 2: Welcome to Objectives & Key Results

Lecture 2 A message from your instructor Jeff Gothelf

Lecture 3 Download the OKR Workbook

Section 3: Why we need to change from managing to output to managing to outcomes

Lecture 4 Software has changed the way we think about delivering value to our cu

Lecture 5 A world of continuous change requires new ways to measure success

Section 4: How to write a clear and powerful OKR statement

Lecture 6 How to write great Objectives I: Start with the problem

Lecture 7 How to write great Objectives II: If you solve the problem…

Lecture 8 How to write great Key Results I: Whose behavior should we change?

Lecture 9 How to write great Key Results II: What will they be doing differently?

Lecture 10 Putting the parts together

Section 5: Understanding how setting OKRs changes the way we work

Lecture 11 The Mattress Store: Learning the difference between impact, outcome and output

Lecture 12 OKRs for non-product teams

Lecture 13 OKR-based roadmaps

Lecture 14 Top 3 benefits of OKRs

Section 6: Identifying and overcoming common traps to successful OKR implementation

Lecture 15 Set OKRs in a bi-directional fashion

Lecture 16 Output-centric key results break your OKRs

Lecture 17 Product discovery and why it's key to OKR success

Lecture 18 For OKRs to succeed we must set the right incentives

Lecture 19 Closing thoughts

Lecture 20 Further reading and resources

Product managers, business leaders, agile coaches, transformation leaders, C-level executives