7 customisable OKR examples for Communication Improvement
What are Communication Improvement 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.
Writing good OKRs can be hard, especially if it's your first time doing it. You'll need to center the focus of your plans around outcomes instead of projects.
We have curated a selection of OKR examples specifically for Communication Improvement 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.
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Our customisable Communication Improvement OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different Communication Improvement Objectives and Key Results. We've included strategic initiatives in our templates to give you a better idea of the different between the key results (how we measure progress), and the initiatives (what we do to achieve the results).
Hope you'll find this helpful!
1. OKRs to enhance stakeholder communication for improved transparency and reporting
Enhance stakeholder communication for improved transparency and reporting
Increase the number of reports shared with stakeholders by 30%
Analyze current processes for generating and sharing reports- Implement efficiences to enable increased report production
- Increase frequency of reports sent to stakeholders
- Achieve a 70% positive feedback rating from stakeholders on newly implemented reporting
- Regularly communicate system benefits to stakeholders
- Ensure comprehensive training sessions on the new reporting system
- Implement real-time adjustments based on ongoing feedback
- Implement a bi-weekly stakeholder communication plan by end of month 1
- Launch and monitor the bi-weekly communication plan
- Design communication protocol and schedule
- Identify key stakeholders and their communication preferences
2. OKRs to foster open communication and continual improvement within the team
- Foster open communication and continual improvement within the team
- Achieve a 25% increase in actionable suggestions from team members
- Enhance communication channels for suggestions
- Conduct regular brainstorming sessions with team
- Implement a reward system for valuable suggestions
- Ensure 100% of team members participate in at least one feedback session
- Track and confirm each member's participation
- Create a schedule for mandatory feedback sessions
- Inform team members about the feedback sessions
- Conduct 8 team feedback sessions focused on insight sharing and improvement ideas
- Schedule 8 team feedback sessions for idea sharing
- Evaluate and implement suggestions for improvement after sessions
- Prepare a structured format for insight exchange
3. OKRs to enhance and refine my communication skills
- Enhance and refine my communication skills
- Practice public speaking at four local events
- Research and select four events suitable for public speaking
- Register and attend these local events as a speaker
- Prepare speeches relevant to each event's topic or theme
- Receive positive feedback on communication improvement from 6 team members
- Request feedback from team members regularly
- Implement learned techniques into daily team interactions
- Engage in training courses for effective communication skills
- Complete two advanced communication training workshops
- Attend and actively participate in these workshops
- Apply learned knowledge in professional communications
- Research and register for two advanced communication training workshops
4. OKRs to improve communication by ensuring quarterly check-in with performance manager
- Improve communication by ensuring quarterly check-in with performance manager
- Implement action plan based on feedback received from performance manager
- Develop a comprehensive action plan addressing the concerns highlighted
- Review feedback received from performance manager thoroughly
- Begin implementation of formulated action plan immediately
- Discuss performance goals and feedback during check-in meeting
- Review previous performance goals before the check-in meeting
- Prepare constructive and specific feedback points
- Schedule a check-in meeting to discuss performance goals
- Schedule and attend quarterly check-in meeting with performance manager
- Determine a suitable date and time for the check-in meeting
- Send meeting invite to performance manager
- Attend the scheduled check-in meeting
5. OKRs to enhance my leadership capabilities
- Enhance my leadership capabilities
- Complete three industry-recognized leadership training courses
- Receive an average score of 4.5 or above on a peer-leadership survey
- Research and implement effective leadership strategies
- Regularly undertake leadership development workshops
- Seek constructive feedback from peers
- Facilitate 5 team meetings to enhance communication and decision-making skills
- Provide resources and activities during meetings to improve these skills
- Develop an agenda focused on enhancing communication and decision-making skills
- Plan and schedule five team meetings in the upcoming period
6. OKRs to to strengthen relationship and engagement with practices
- To strengthen relationship and engagement with practices
- Achieve a 15% increase in regular communication with practices
- Regularly schedule bi-weekly practice management meetings
- Implement weekly email updates for ongoing practice-related events
- Create an interactive feedback system for immediate responses
- Implement two new collaborative projects with practices
- Identify suitable practices for collaboration
- Initiate contact and negotiate project details
- Develop proposal for new collaborative projects
- Improve satisfaction among practices by 20% as measured by a follow-up survey
- Introduce new incentives for high-performing practices
- Enhance communication between management and practices
- Implement regular feedback sessions with practices
7. OKRs to improve student attendance and literacy statistics
- Improve student attendance and literacy statistics
- Raise student attendance by 15%
- Offer rewards for consistent attendance
- Create engaging curriculum to boost student interest
- Implement a clear and effective communication system for parents and students
- Improve grade-level literacy rates by 20%
- Provide ongoing professional development for educators
- Expand family literacy activities and resources
- Implement intensive, individualized reading intervention programs
- Reduce number of students with low literacy skills by 10%
- Encourage regular parent-teacher communication
- Hire additional reading specialists for support
- Implement targeted literacy intervention programs
Communication Improvement 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 Communication Improvement 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
We recommend using a spreadsheet for your first OKRs cycle. You'll need to get familiar with the scoring and tracking first. Then, you can scale your OKRs process by using a proper OKR-tracking tool for it.
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 Communication Improvement 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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