15 customisable OKR examples for Communication Manager
What are Communication Manager 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 Manager 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 Manager OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different Communication Manager 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 engagement and commitment via effective communication
Enhance engagement and commitment via effective communication
Introduce bi-weekly inter-departmental meetings with 95% attendance
Design an engaging and relevant meeting agenda- Draft and distribute a meeting calendar to all departments
- Implement a strict, yet incentivizing attendance policy
- Achieve a 20% increase in positive feedback on internal communication through anonymous surveys
- Enhance the anonymity of feedback surveys
- Encourage prompt and constructive feedback
- Implement weekly training for improving internal communication skills
- Improve internal communication by launching a company-wide newsletter reaching 100% of staff
- Determine relevant content for the company-wide newsletter
- Design the newsletter layout and format
- Set up a distribution system reaching all staff
2. OKRs to enhance employee dedication via communication optimization
- Enhance employee dedication via communication optimization
- Reduce communication gap by achieving 85% timely response rate on internal chat platform
- Implement automatic reminders for unanswered chats every two hours
- Train employees on the importance of timely responses
- Monitor response rates weekly and address lapses
- Implement bi-weekly team meetings to increase interaction by 60%
- Track and measure meeting interaction increase
- Establish a bi-weekly team meeting schedule
- Prepare relevant discussion points to stimulate interaction
- Accomplish 90% positive feedback on anonymous communication satisfaction survey
3. OKRs to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of internal communications
- Enhance efficiency and effectiveness of internal communications
- Implement a collaborative tool to reduce email communication by 50%
- Identify suitable collaborative tools for team communication
- Monitor and measure reduction in email usage
- Train team on the usage of the selected tool
- Achieve a 25% increase in staff participation in internal communications feedback surveys
- Implement staff incentives for survey participation
- Regularly promote surveys through company-wide communications
- Develop engaging, concise surveys for easier completion
- Develop an internal communications strategy and get approval from all department heads
- Schedule meetings with department heads for feedback
- Revise and finalize strategy based on received approval
- Draft an initial internal communications strategy proposal
4. OKRs to devise the optimal work environment in the firm
- Devise the optimal work environment in the firm
- Implement staff-chosen workplace improvements in at least 3 areas
- Review and prioritize the improvement suggestions given
- Survey staff for improvement suggestions in different areas
- Carry out prioritized improvement plans
- Reduce office complaints by 50% as per HR records
- Implement regular team-building activities to improve rapport
- Initiate open forums for addressing grievances
- Enhance employee appraisal system transparency
- Increase employee satisfaction by 25% measured by internal surveys
- Enhance internal communication strategies
- Implement regular feedback and recognition programs
- Promote work-life balance initiatives
5. OKRs to enhance cross-divisional resource collaboration in the region
- Enhance cross-divisional resource collaboration in the region
- Roll out a unified communication system to 100% of the regional divisions
- Procure and customize unified communication system
- Implement training for system usage across regions
- Determine regional divisions' specific communication needs
- Increase cross-divisional projects by 20% to boost synergistic efforts
- Implement metrics to monitor progress in cross-division initiatives
- Identify potential projects for cross-divisional collaboration
- Organize workshops to promote mutual understanding and teamwork
- Attain 15% reduction in resource redundancy among all divisions
- Implement shared resources system to minimize duplication
- Develop an effective resource allocation strategy
- Identify areas of overlap in resource utilization across divisions
6. OKRs to to maximize clarity and reach in resident communication
- To maximize clarity and reach in resident communication
- Reduce turnaround time for resident queries by 30% through proactive communication
- Implement efficient resident communication software
- Establish a dedicated resident queries response team
- Train staff in proactive query resolution techniques
- Implement 2 new communication channels to increase resident engagement by 50%
- Develop a rollout strategy for implementing these channels
- Identify two new potential communication channels for resident engagement
- Track and evaluate the increase in resident engagement
- Conduct 3 resident surveys to identify areas for communication improvement
- Develop a concise resident survey focusing on communication
- Distribute the survey to 3 selected residents
- Analyze survey responses for areas of improvement
7. 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
8. OKRs to enhance our overall communication effectiveness
- Enhance our overall communication effectiveness
- Implement a weekly all-hands communication meeting improving participation by 25%
- Offer incentives for active participation
- Schedule consistent weekly all-hands meetings
- Develop engaging and participatory meeting agendas
- Increase internal newsletter open rates by 10%, ensuring better information dissemination
- Integrate more engaging, relevant content within newsletters
- Improve subject lines to capture employee interest
- Implement succinct, visual-rich layout for emails
- Reduce email response time by 15% boosting operational efficiency
- Prioritize incoming emails based on urgency and relevance
- Implement an email management tool to automate responses
- Dedicate specific time slots for checking and responding to emails
9. OKRs to enhance communication tools for internal project members
- Enhance communication tools for internal project members
- Achieve 15% increase in project collaboration as measured by communication platform analytics
- Promote and facilitate open project discussions
- Implement regular team meetings to review project progress
- Introduce new communication platform with analytics
- Provide efficient communication suite to 100% of team members
- Evaluate existing communication tools for suitability and efficiency
- Select and purchase optimal communication suite for team
- Train all team members on using the new communication suite
- Conduct training sessions to improve mastery of communication tools for 90% of staff
- Identify necessary communication tools for staff training
- Implement training sessions for all staff members
- Develop comprehensive training course on these tools
10. 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
11. OKRs to foster a comprehensive feedback culture
- Foster a comprehensive feedback culture
- Decrease negative feedback issues by 30% through improvement interventions
- Develop and implement a comprehensive customer service training program
- Regularly analyze customer satisfaction surveys for improvement areas
- Revise and optimize internal processes associated with customer complaints
- Organize four constructive feedback workshops for all staff members
- Outline the key goals and topics for each feedback workshop
- Arrange for appropriate facilities and equipment to host workshops
- Send invites and workshop agenda to all staff members
- Implement confidential weekly team feedback surveys increasing participation by 60%
12. OKRs to boost internal outreach and enhance brand recognition
- Boost internal outreach and enhance brand recognition
- Achieve a 30% increase in employee engagement in company wide initiatives
- Create engaging, inclusive intra-office communication channels
- Implement regular employee feedback sessions on company initiatives
- Recognize and reward active employee participation in initiatives
- Gain 20% more followers on all company social media platforms
- Create engaging and shareable content consistently
- Foster collaboration with relevant influencers
- Implement targeted ad campaigns on each platform
- Execute 2 brand promotional activities leading to 40% increase in brand awareness
- Implement, measure, and adjust the promotional strategies
- Identify relevant platforms for brand promotion activities
- Plan and develop engaging promotional content
13. OKRs to foster a motivational and engaging work environment
- Foster a motivational and engaging work environment
- Enhance internal communication channels improving employee satisfaction ratings by 25%
- Conduct satisfaction surveys to identify improvement areas
- Create an internal communication platform for real-time updates
- Implement weekly team meetings to engage open communication
- Implement a recognition scheme, appreciating 100% exceptional employee contributions
- Communicate the scheme to all employees
- Develop a structure for the recognition scheme
- Draft criteria for identifying exceptional employee contributions
- Conduct bi-weekly innovative team-building activities to boost morale by 30%
14. OKRs to enhance cross-functional collaboration and communication
- Improve cross-functional communication and collaboration
- Increase cross-functional team meeting attendance by 50%
- Decrease email response time by 25%
- Launch a company-wide collaboration platform with 100% adoption
- Conduct 3 cross-functional team building activities with a participation rate of 90%
15. OKRs to launch a successful employee advocacy program
- Launch a successful employee advocacy program
- Measure and demonstrate a 15% improvement in brand impact due to advocacy
- Implement customer advocacy strategies effectively
- Identify key metrics for evaluating brand impact
- Analyze and report increased brand impact
- Train 75% of employees on advocacy program within quarter
- Identify suitable advocacy program instructors
- Schedule advocacy training sessions for employees
- Monitor and document participation rates
- Increase internal program adoption by 25%
- Implement incentive schemes for program adoption
- Develop engaging internal communication about program benefits
- Provide comprehensive training for effective program usage
Communication Manager 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 Manager 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 Communication Manager OKR templates
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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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