OKRs for Individual Contributors
Up to 80% of people struggle to create visibility for their work, ending in awkward performance conversations with their managers.
Aspire
The first step to excel at work is to pick goals that challenge you. If you always choose easy goals, you mayseem less driven, which will affect your career growth. By mixing aspirational and committed OKRs, you aspire to more and will perform better at work.
đĄPro-tip: Pick up 2-3 Committed OKRs and 1-2 Aspirational OKRs in a quarter.
Align
Aligning your objectives helps you to understand how your work impacts your companyâs progress. This alignment is also important when working on projects where other teams are involved.
By aligning you OKRs with other teamsâ OKRs, you can call out dependancies in a transparent and visible manner and help fix troubled spots quickly.
Aligning your OKRs with your manager, teamâs, and company OKRâs is essential for your success
By aligning you OKRs with other teamsâ OKRs, you can call out dependancies in a transparent and visible manner and help fix troubled spots quickly.
Aligning your OKRs with your manager, teamâs, and company OKRâs is essential for your success
đĄPro-tip: 100% alignment kills agility and creativity. Have at least 1-2 unaligned OKRs.
Contribute
Once you add and align your OKRs, the next step is recording and communicating your contribution. This step requires discipline and rigor in terms of weekly progress updates to your OKRs and 1:1 meetings with your manager.
Such OKR cadence will help in proactively surfacing any blockers that potentially stop you from achieving your OKRs.
It is very important to link your day-to-day work tools such as Jira, ClickUp, Trello, and Zoho to Key Results so that there is a single source of truth for your manager to evaluate.
Such OKR cadence will help in proactively surfacing any blockers that potentially stop you from achieving your OKRs.
It is very important to link your day-to-day work tools such as Jira, ClickUp, Trello, and Zoho to Key Results so that there is a single source of truth for your manager to evaluate.
đĄPro-tip: Always ensure that Key Results can be measurable with data from your day-to-day work tools. Donât worry đ. We've got you covered with 100+ integrations.
Validate
At the end of each quarterly OKR cycle, you should reflect on your OKR scores and document lessons in terms of âwhat went wellâ and âwhat can be done betterâ next time.
It is very important to validate your progress and achievements with feedback from your peers.
It is very important to validate your progress and achievements with feedback from your peers.
đĄPro-tip: Peer validation helps overcome perceptions and unconscious biases. Learn more about performance biases.
Narrate
The final step toward having a great performance conversation with your manager is to narrate your story by summarizing the impact you created with your achievement of OKRs, your strengths, growth areas, and future experiences you are interested in.
It is very important to validate your strengths and growth areas with peer feedback and a 360 behavior assessment.
It is very important to validate your strengths and growth areas with peer feedback and a 360 behavior assessment.
đĄPro-tip: Always request feedback from peers with whom you interacted for achieving your Key Results.
