What are Community Of Practice 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 Community Of Practice 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.
How to write your own Community Of Practice OKRs
1. Get tailored OKRs with an AI
You'll find some examples below, but it's likely that you have very specific needs that won't be covered.
You can use Tability's AI generator to create tailored OKRs based on your specific context. Tability can turn your objective description into a fully editable OKR template -- including tips to help you refine your goals.
- 1. Go to Tability's plan editor
- 2. Click on the "Generate goals using AI" button
- 3. Use natural language to describe your goals
Tability will then use your prompt to generate a fully editable OKR template.
Watch the video below to see it in action 👇
Option 2. Optimise existing OKRs with Tability Feedback tool
If you already have existing goals, and you want to improve them. You can use Tability's AI feedback to help you.
- 1. Go to Tability's plan editor
- 2. Add your existing OKRs (you can import them from a spreadsheet)
- 3. Click on "Generate analysis"
Tability will scan your OKRs and offer different suggestions to improve them. This can range from a small rewrite of a statement to make it clearer to a complete rewrite of the entire OKR.
You can then decide to accept the suggestions or dismiss them if you don't agree.
Option 3. Use the free OKR generator
If you're just looking for some quick inspiration, you can also use our free OKR generator to get a template.
Unlike with Tability, you won't be able to iterate on the templates, but this is still a great way to get started.
Community Of Practice OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different Community Of Practice 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!
OKRs to establish a thriving Community of Practice to enhance collaborative learning
- ObjectiveEstablish a thriving Community of Practice to enhance collaborative learning
- KRImplement an online platform for 100% of community members to share knowledge
- Identify suitable online community platform to adopt
- Train community members on platform usage
- Promote active knowledge sharing within the platform
- KRMeasure and increase member engagement by 30% using a proven retention strategy
- Evaluate improvements regularly, aiming for a 30% increase
- Identify key metrics for measuring current member engagement levels
- Implement a proven retention strategy to boost engagement
- KRFacilitate at least 10 interactive sessions that promote collaborative learning
- Identify suitable topics for interactive, collaborative sessions
- Prepare engaging, collaborative activities for each session
- Schedule and announce the 10 interactive sessions
OKRs to implement an Efficient, Global Community of Practice (CoP) Model
- ObjectiveImplement an Efficient, Global Community of Practice (CoP) Model
- KRDecrease resource usage through efficiency measures by 15%
- Conduct regular checks to identify wasteful processes
- Provide staff training on resource-efficient practices
- Implement energy-saving equipment across all operations
- KRIncrease global CoP participation by 25%
- Develop engaging CoP programs and initiatives globally
- Implement strategic marketing to target potential CoP participants
- Enhance online platforms for greater CoP outreach
- KRAchieve 95% satisfaction rate in CoP member surveys on efficiency outcomes
- Develop and continually improve effective communication within CoP
- Implement regular training for CoP members on efficiency strategies
- Solicit and implement member feedback on efficiency processes
Community Of Practice OKR best practices
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.
Tip #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.
Tip #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 track your Community Of Practice OKRs
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.
If 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 Community Of Practice OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
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