8 customisable OKR examples for CEO
What are CEO OKRs?
The Objective and Key Results (OKR) framework is a simple goal-setting methodology that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s. It became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s, and it's now used by teams of all sizes to set and track ambitious goals at scale.
How you write your OKRs can make a huge difference on the impact that your team will have at the end of the quarter. But, it's not always easy to write a quarterly plan that focuses on outcomes instead of projects.
We have curated a selection of OKR examples specifically for CEO to assist you. Feel free to explore the templates below for inspiration in setting your own goals.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.
Building your own CEO OKRs with AI
While we have some examples available, it's likely that you'll have specific scenarios that aren't covered here. You can use our free AI generator below or our more complete goal-setting system to generate your own OKRs.
Our customisable CEO OKRs examples
You'll find below a list of Objectives and Key Results templates for CEO. We also included strategic projects for each template to make it easier to understand the difference between key results and projects.
Hope you'll find this helpful!
1. OKRs to boost CEO's efficiency and effectiveness
Boost CEO's efficiency and effectiveness
Implement a new time management tool and increase its usage to 100%
Monitor and encourage regular usage- Research and choose an efficient time management tool
- Train employees on its usage and benefits
- Delegate 20% more tasks to improve time for strategic objectives
- Review current task allocation among team members
- Identify suitable tasks for delegation
- Train staff for new tasks
- Reduce unnecessary meeting times by 25% to increase focus time
- Eliminate redundant or non-essential meetings
- Encourage email updates instead of meetings
- Implement a strict time limit for each meeting
2. OKRs to support CEO in executing strategic initiatives and tracking progress
- Enhance CEO's support for executing the company's strategic initiatives
- Conduct regular progress reports and adjust strategies accordingly
- Collaborate with CEO to ensure high-quality strategic execution
- Improve CEO's communication with cross-functional teams
- Develop a tracking system for CEO's strategic initiatives
3. OKRs to enhance CEO's productivity levels
- Enhance CEO's productivity levels
- Reduce CEO's routine administrative tasks by 30%
- Delegate basic email correspondence to executive assistant
- Automate calendar scheduling with digital tools
- Train secretary for handling routine paperwork
- Implement two new productivity tools or strategies weekly for the CEO
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness weekly
- Implement two selected productivity methods weekly
- Research top productivity tools and strategies for CEOs
- Streamline CEO’s daily scheduling system for 20% more efficiency
- Prioritize tasks based on urgency and importance
- Implement a digital scheduling system for optimizing meeting times
- Delegate non-critical meetings to department heads
4. OKRs to enhance effectiveness of CEO Executive Assistant role
- Enhance effectiveness of CEO Executive Assistant role
- Reduce executive assistant's administrative and non-essential tasks by 20%
- Implement automation tools for scheduling and email management
- Train in using productivity apps for task management
- Delegate less important tasks to junior staff
- Implement job-specific training for Executive Assistants within two weeks
- Identify necessary skill sets for Executive Assistants
- Schedule and execute training sessions
- Develop a job-specific training program
- Increase executive assistant's CEO-directed task completion rate by 30%
- Set clear goals and deadlines for assigned tasks
- Provide tools for efficient time management
- Prioritize tasks based on their importance and urgency
5. OKRs to develop strong investor relations strategy
- Improve Investor Relations
- Achieve higher investment inflow by 15%
- Boost investor confidence through regular communication
- Maximize investor outreach efforts
- Increase investor engagement by 20%
6. OKRs to secure funding from three new investors
- Increase investor funding
- Secure funding from at least three new investors
- Create a compelling investment pitch
- Establish new relationships with potential investors
- Schedule and conduct meetings with interested investors
7. OKRs to expand investor network with five strategic VC firms
- Build relationships with 5 top VC firms
- Attend 2 industry events hosted by each VC firm
- Arrange meetings with decision makers from 5 VC firms
- Secure 3 introductions to portfolio companies from each VC firm
- Collect and analyze data on 10 potential leads from each VC firm
8. OKRs to improve investor pitch deck and materials
- Optimize investor pitch deck and materials
- Receive positive feedback from at least 80% of investors
- Increase conversion rate of investors reached
- Reduce the average time to close a deal
- Achieve a 20% increase in investment amount
CEO OKR best practices to boost success
Generally speaking, your objectives should be ambitious yet achievable, and your key results should be measurable and time-bound (using the SMART framework can be helpful). It is also recommended to list strategic initiatives under your key results, as it'll help you avoid the common mistake of listing projects in your KRs.
Here are a couple of best practices extracted from our OKR implementation guide 👇
Tip #1: Limit the number of key results
The #1 role of OKRs is to help you and your team focus on what really matters. Business-as-usual activities will still be happening, but you do not need to track your entire roadmap in the OKRs.
We recommend having 3-4 objectives, and 3-4 key results per objective. A platform like Tability can run audits on your data to help you identify the plans that have too many goals.
Tability's audit dashboard will highlight opportunities to improve OKRsTip #2: Commit to weekly OKR check-ins
Don't fall into the set-and-forget trap. It is important to adopt a weekly check-in process to get the full value of your OKRs and make your strategy agile – otherwise this is nothing more than a reporting exercise.
Being able to see trends for your key results will also keep yourself honest.
Tability's check-ins will save you hours and increase transparencyTip #3: No more than 2 yellow statuses in a row
Yes, this is another tip for goal-tracking instead of goal-setting (but you'll get plenty of OKR examples above). But, once you have your goals defined, it will be your ability to keep the right sense of urgency that will make the difference.
As a rule of thumb, it's best to avoid having more than 2 yellow/at risk statuses in a row.
Make a call on the 3rd update. You should be either back on track, or off track. This sounds harsh but it's the best way to signal risks early enough to fix things.
How to turn your CEO OKRs in a strategy map
Quarterly OKRs should have weekly updates to get all the benefits from the framework. Reviewing progress periodically has several advantages:
- It brings the goals back to the top of the mind
- It will highlight poorly set OKRs
- It will surface execution risks
- It improves transparency and accountability
Spreadsheets are enough to get started. Then, once you need to scale you can use a proper OKR platform to make things easier.
Tability's Strategy Map makes it easy to see all your org's OKRsIf you're not yet set on a tool, you can check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates guide to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.
More CEO OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
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OKRs resources
Here are a list of resources to help you adopt the Objectives and Key Results framework.
- To learn: What is the meaning of OKRs
- Blog posts: ODT Blog
- Success metrics: KPIs examples
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