7 customisable OKR examples for Communication Skills
What are Communication Skills 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 Skills 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 Communication Skills 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 Communication Skills OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different Communication Skills 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 and perfect interpersonal and professional communication skills
Enhance and perfect interpersonal and professional communication skills
Receive positive feedback on improved communication from at least 5 peers or superiors
Improve and demonstrate clear, concise communication in all settings- Implement effective listening skills during all team interactions
- Regularly solicit feedback from peers and superiors
- Implement learned techniques in 4 different real-life scenarios
- Continually refine and adjust techniques
- Take notes on technique effectiveness post-application
- Identify daily situations to utilize newly learned techniques
- Attend two communication skills workshops or webinars
- Research and select two suitable communication skills workshops or webinars
- Attend and actively participate in both workshops/webinars
- Register for chosen workshops or webinars
2. OKRs to enhance communication skills and overcome shyness
- Enhance communication skills and overcome shyness
- Attend two networking events every month to interact with diverse individuals
- Schedule two networking events into personal calendar
- Research local networking events happening nearby
- Regularly engage and interact with attendees during events
- Complete an online course in public speaking or interpersonal communication skills
- Find and enroll in a relevant online public speaking course
- Successfully complete and pass all course evaluations and exams
- Actively participate in all course activities and assignments
- Engage in weekly activities requiring public speaking or initiating conversation with strangers
- Strike up conversation with a new person in a public place daily
- Volunteer to present at weekly community meetings or events
- Enroll in a local weekly debate club or toastmaster session
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 enhance and refine presentation skills
- Enhance and refine presentation skills
- Deliver 10 presentations, receiving above 80% positive feedback each time
- Request and analyze feedback for improvement
- Develop engaging content for 10 distinct presentations
- Practice presenting to ensure effective delivery
- Successfully complete a professional public speaking and presentation skills course
- Enroll in a reputable public speaking course
- Practice skills learned and incorporate feedback
- Regularly participate in all course activities
- Participate in local Toastmasters club meetings twice a month to practice and receive feedback
- Attend two Toastmasters meetings per month
- Engage and ask for constructive feedback
- Identify local Toastmasters clubs and their meeting schedules
5. OKRs to enhance impactful self-communication skills
- Enhance impactful self-communication skills
- Apply new communication skills to receive positive feedback from 5 colleagues
- Exhibit positivity in body language and tone
- Use constructive responses when giving feedback
- Practice active listening during office conversations
- Attend minimum 3 work communication improvement workshops
- Schedule and attend these workshops
- Select and register for three suitable workshops
- Research different communication improvement workshops
- Read at least 2 books on effective self-communication
- Purchase or borrow selected books
- Research and select two books on effective self-communication
- Dedicate time daily to read both books
6. OKRs to develop the skills and knowledge of junior data scientists
- Develop the skills and knowledge of junior data scientists
- Enhance junior data scientists' ability to effectively communicate insights through presentations and reports
- Establish a feedback loop to continuously review and improve the communication skills of junior data scientists
- Encourage junior data scientists to actively participate in team meetings and share their insights
- Provide junior data scientists with training on effective presentation and report writing techniques
- Assign a mentor to junior data scientists to guide and coach them in communication skills
- Increase junior data scientists' technical proficiency through targeted training programs
- Provide hands-on workshops and projects to enhance practical skills of junior data scientists
- Monitor and evaluate progress through regular assessments and feedback sessions
- Develop customized training modules based on identified knowledge gaps
- Conduct a skills assessment to identify knowledge gaps of junior data scientists
- Measure and improve junior data scientists' productivity by reducing their turnaround time for assigned tasks
- Foster a supportive environment by establishing mentorship programs for junior data scientists
7. OKRs to enhance effectiveness as a product manager
- Enhance effectiveness as a product manager
- Receive positive feedback on communication and problem-solving in 80% of stakeholder interactions
- Request constructive feedback after each interaction
- Acquire communication and conflict-resolution training
- Implement specific improvements from feedback received
- Complete a communication skills course with a 90% pass rate
- Consistently study to understand all course materials
- Research and enroll in a reputable communication skills course
- Aim to achieve at least 90% in all assignments and exams
- Solve 10 complex product issues independently and efficiently
- Develop strategic solutions for each identified problem
- Implement the solutions and monitor their effectiveness
- Analyze each product issue for effective problem identification
Communication Skills 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 Skills OKRs in a strategy map
OKRs without regular progress updates are just KPIs. You'll need to update progress on your OKRs every week to get the full 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 Skills 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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