5 customisable OKR examples for Cross Departmental Collaboration
What are Cross Departmental Collaboration 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.
Crafting effective OKRs can be challenging, particularly for beginners. Emphasizing outcomes rather than projects should be the core of your planning.
We've tailored a list of OKRs examples for Cross Departmental Collaboration to help you. You can look at any of the templates below to get some inspiration for your own goals.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.
Building your own Cross Departmental Collaboration 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.
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Our customisable Cross Departmental Collaboration OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different Cross Departmental Collaboration 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 organisational work transparency for improved efficiency
Enhance organisational work transparency for improved efficiency
Increase internal presentation sessions about ongoing projects by 30%
Identify projects suitable for presentation sessions- Schedule 30% more presentation sessions
- Notify and invite participants to sessions
- Implement a shared project management platform across all departments
- Identify the needs of all departments for a project management platform
- Train all department heads on the new platform
- Select and purchase an appropriate shared platform
- Make 100% of work processes documented and easily accessible for all staff
- Identify all existing work processes across departments
- Create clear, concise documentation for each process
- Develop a centralized, digital process library for staff access
2. OKRs to acquire the company award for exceptional teamwork
- Acquire the company award for exceptional teamwork
- Improve overall team performance by 35% compared to last quarter's productivity
- Enhance project management strategies
- Implement weekly performance review and feedback sessions
- Increase training and skill development sessions
- Lead a collaborative project successfully involving at least four different departments
- Encourage regular communication among teams
- Implement project management tools for coordination
- Arrange cross-departmental meetings to discuss project goals
- Conduct bi-weekly team-building activities resulting in higher engagement scores
- Analyze results to continually enhance team-building approaches
- Implement measures to evaluate engagement during activities
- Outline and schedule varied bi-weekly team-building activities
3. OKRs to enhance understanding of business requirements
- Enhance understanding of business requirements
- Complete 3 online courses about business requirements analysis and documentation
- Diligently complete all course materials and assessments
- Identify suitable online courses in business requirements analysis
- Register for three chosen online courses
- Conduct 5 cross-departmental informational interviews per month
- Conduct and document the informational interviews
- Identify five potential interviewees across various departments
- Schedule and plan the interviews
- Create checklist for comprehensive business requirement gathering in 2 weeks
- Design draft of business requirement checklist
- Identify key stakeholders for business requirement gathering
- Establish critical business needs and objectives
4. OKRs to elevate our team's brand to be highly desirable
- Elevate our team's brand to be highly desirable
- Achieve 95% positive reviews in the next internal team satisfaction survey
- Enhance work-life balance initiatives
- Improve team communication and feedback systems
- Initiate regular coaching and mentoring sessions
- Increase cross-departmental project collaborations by 20%
- Implement a cross-departmental project recognition/reward system
- Organize regular inter-departmental project brainstorming sessions
- Develop a cross-departmental communication and collaboration system
- Enhance team satisfaction score by 35% through targeted improvement initiatives
- Implement regular team-building activities to promote collaboration
- Conduct anonymous satisfaction surveys for feedback
- Offer professional development opportunities regularly
5. OKRs to enhance teamwork across different departments
- Enhance teamwork across different departments
- Achieve participation of all department heads in bi-weekly collaboration meetings
- Remind participants about meeting via email or text
- Send meeting invites to all department heads in advance
- Provide a clear agenda for every meeting
- Implement 5 cross-departmental projects with shared KPIs and responsibilities
- Launch and monitor cross-departmental projects for effective implementation
- Identify potential departments for collaboration on shared KPI projects
- Define shared KPIs and responsibilities for each project
- Increase cross-team employee satisfaction rates by 20% through regular feedback loops
- Create recognition programs for cross-team collaborations
- Implement regular cross-team meetings for feedback exchange
- Introduce a system for anonymous feedback submissions
Cross Departmental Collaboration 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 Cross Departmental Collaboration 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
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 Cross Departmental Collaboration 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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