11 customisable OKR examples for Employees
What are Employees 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 understand that setting OKRs can be challenging, so we have prepared a set of examples tailored for Employees. Take a peek at the templates below to find inspiration and kickstart your goal-setting process.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.
Building your own Employees 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.
Feel free to explore our tools:
- Use our free OKR generator
- Use Tability, a complete platform to set and track OKRs and initiatives, including a GPT-4 powered goal generator
Our customisable Employees OKRs examples
We've added many examples of Employees Objectives and Key Results, but we did not stop there. Understanding the difference between OKRs and projects is important, so we also added examples of strategic initiatives that relate to the OKRs.
Hope you'll find this helpful!
1. OKRs to optimize payroll process for efficiency
Optimize payroll process for efficiency
Reduce manual payroll processes by 40% to minimize human error
Implement automated payroll software system in the company- Train HR employees on using the new software
- Monitor and adjust software for efficiency
- Increase payroll automation by 50% for enhanced productivity
- Evaluate and adjust operations for continuous improvement
- Train staff members on new automated payroll systems
- Research and select advanced payroll automation software
- Achieve 30% reduction in payroll processing time by improving workflow
- Implementing automated payroll software or system
- Identify and eliminate redundant payroll processing steps
- Train staff on efficient payroll processing procedures
2. OKRs to enhance operational efficiency, certify employees, and increase team revenue
- Enhance operational efficiency, certify employees, and increase team revenue
- Have 100% of the employees complete certification courses relevant to their positions
- Set a deadline for course completion
- Monitor progress and offer support when needed
- Identify relevant certification courses for each position
- Reduce process lag by 20% through process optimization strategies
- Identify key areas of the process causing delays
- Implement new efficiency measures in these areas
- Analyze and adjust measures based on results
- Increase team's total revenue by 15% through strategic sales and marketing initiatives
- Develop and implement revenue-boosting sales strategies
- Upskill sales team with advanced selling techniques
- Launch targeted marketing campaigns for product promotion
3. OKRs to enhance leadership inclusivity across all teams
- Enhance leadership inclusivity across all teams
- Implement inclusivity training for all team leaders by the end of the quarter
- Identify relevant inclusivity training programs for team leaders
- Schedule training sessions for each team leader
- Monitor and report on training progress and effectiveness
- Decrease leadership team's turnover rate by 20% through fostering inclusivity
- Encourage open dialogue about inclusivity during team meetings
- Implement comprehensive diversity training for all management level employees
- Establish a mentoring program that promotes inclusivity
- Increase internal survey's inclusivity score by 30% among leadership team
- Encourage honest communication through anonymous feedback
- Revise survey questions to eliminate unconscious bias
- Implement mandatory leadership training on diversity and inclusivity
4. OKRs to cultivate an inclusive and engaging work environment for all employees
- Cultivate an inclusive and engaging work environment for all employees
- Achieve a 20% improvement in overall employee satisfaction scores
- Implement feedback changes to improve work culture and environment
- Design and implement an employee recognition program
- Conduct regular surveys to assess current employee satisfaction levels
- Increase employee survey engagement rate by 30%
- Implement attractive incentives for completing the survey
- Simplify survey to reduce completion time
- Communicate survey importance via company-wide email
- Implement a diversity and inclusion training program for 100% of team leaders
- Determine the content and structure of the training program
- Schedule and communicate training sessions to all team leaders
- Identify or hire qualified, experienced trainers for instruction
5. OKRs to boost employees' understanding of corporate culture and core values
- Boost employees' understanding of corporate culture and core values
- Conduct three engaging workshops on firm's culture and values
- Organize appropriate logistics and facilities for the workshops
- Develop comprehensive, engaging content for each workshop
- Choose relevant subjects pertaining to firm's culture and values
- Implement a quarterly recognition program based on core values engagement
- Develop criteria for recognising value engagement
- Create a reward distribution plan for recognised employees
- Identify and define company's core values clearly
- Measure a 15% increase in correct answers on our cultural awareness quiz
- Evaluate and compare new quiz results
- Implement cultural awareness training sessions
- Establish baseline data from current quiz results
6. OKRs to boost the billability rate of employees to 95%
- Boost the billability rate of employees to 95%
- Implement a time-tracking software to reduce unproductive time by 15%
- Train all employees on how to use this software
- Research and select a suitable time-tracking software
- Monitor and evaluate the software's effectiveness regularly
- Reduce non-billable task assignments by 20% through efficient delegation strategy
- Implement a strict task monitoring system
- Train staff on effective task delegation strategies
- Analyze current delegation methods for efficiency problems
- Provide productivity boosting training to achieve at least 10% more billable hours
- Monitor and measure training effectiveness
- Identify relevant productivity boosting training programs
- Allocate resources and schedule training for team
7. OKRs to strengthen overall company cybersecurity knowledge and protocol compliance
- Strengthen overall company cybersecurity knowledge and protocol compliance
- Decrease the occurrence of cybersecurity breaches by 30%
- Implement regular, mandatory cybersecurity training for staff
- Regularly update security software and firewalls
- Conduct routine system vulnerability assessments
- Pass cybersecurity compliance audits with a success rate of 95% or more
- Consistently monitor and evaluate system vulnerabilities
- Regularly train staff on cybersecurity best practices
- Implement updated, robust cybersecurity protocols and software
- Increase employee participation in cybersecurity training sessions by 25%
- Personalize training sessions to individual role requirements
- Boost training session visibility through internal communications
- Implement incentives for completing cybersecurity training
8. OKRs to provide ongoing compliance training and education to all employees
- Improve compliance knowledge and adherence
- Conduct monthly audit and review of compliance improvement with department managers
- Discuss identified compliance gaps with department managers
- Schedule monthly compliance improvement audits with department managers
- Develop and implement corrective action plans to improve compliance
- Review current compliance performance for all departments
- Increase employee certification success rate by 20%
- Implement personalized study plans
- Facilitate group study sessions
- Offer practice exams and feedback
- Provide access to study materials
- Launch 2 e-learning modules covering mandatory compliance regulations
- Develop content for e-learning modules and ensure accuracy with legal team
- Identify mandatory compliance regulations to be covered in e-learning modules
- Train and disseminate e-learning modules to all employees, including tracking completion rates
- Design user-friendly interface and incorporate interactive elements into e-learning platform
- Conduct monthly training sessions with active participation of 90% of employees
- Schedule monthly training sessions for all employees
- Solicit feedback from employees to improve future training sessions
- Create engaging training materials with interactive components
- Monitor participation rates and follow up with non-participants
9. OKRs to strengthen team communication for remote workers utilizing Slack
- Strengthen team communication for remote workers utilizing Slack
- Enhance clarity of messages through a 15% decrease in miscommunication
- Develop a standardized communication framework with clear guidelines for effective messaging
- Conduct regular trainings and workshops on active listening and verbal/non-verbal communication
- Implement a feedback system to address and resolve any miscommunication promptly
- Encourage the use of visual aids or diagrams to supplement written or spoken communication
- Increase the utilization of Slack's collaboration features by 30%
- Create and distribute a comprehensive guide highlighting Slack's collaboration features
- Encourage team leaders to incorporate Slack's collaboration tools into their daily workflows
- Regularly share success stories and best practices of utilizing Slack's collaboration tools
- Host training sessions to teach employees how to effectively utilize Slack's collaboration features
- Improve participation in team channels by at least 25%
- Provide ongoing training and resources on effective communication to support increased participation
- Implement a daily reminder to encourage team members to actively participate in channels
- Share success stories of active participants to inspire and motivate others to join in
- Organize regular team challenges to promote engagement and increase participation in channels
- Increase average response time on Slack by 20%
- Provide regular training and guidance on effective and efficient communication practices
- Analyze response time data to identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement
- Implement productivity tools and shortcuts to streamline communication and reduce response time
- Encourage team members to adopt time management techniques to prioritize and respond promptly
10. OKRs to cultivate a resilient and enduring organizational culture
- Cultivate a resilient and enduring organizational culture
- Train 75% of employees in new cultural practices
- Monitor and record employees' training progress
- Schedule training sessions for all employees
- Identify the specific cultural practices for training
- Achieve 90% positive responses in culture satisfaction survey
- Promote a work environment that values feedback and improvements
- Establish open and transparent communication channels organization-wide
- Implement regular team building activities to foster cohesion
- Introduce two timeless cultural practices by quarter end
- Research various timeless cultural practices globally
- Choose two practices appealing to our audience
- Plan and host virtual presentations introducing each practice
11. OKRs to improve utilization rate of employees and resources
- Improve utilization rate of employees and resources
- Enhance employee productivity by 20% via targeted skill training
- Design and implement targeted training programs
- Identify key skills required for each employee role
- Evaluate individual progress after skill training
- Decrease resource idle time by 10% using improved allocation strategies
- Implement dynamic resource allocation software
- Identify and analyze current resource utilization patterns
- Foster training programs about effective resource management
- Boost the resources usage efficiency by 15% through process optimization
- Implement technological enhancements for improved workflow
- Undertake comprehensive process audit for identifying inefficiencies
- Regularly track and analyze progress towards efficiency goals
Employees 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 Employees 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
Most teams should start with a spreadsheet if they're using OKRs for the first time. Then, once you get comfortable you can graduate to a proper OKRs-tracking tool.
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 Employees OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
- OKRs to streamline staff operations with requisite tools and support
- OKRs to replace toilet flush valves in Building 1 before the construction project
- OKRs to develop and implement an efficient cloud strategy
- OKRs to strengthen and broaden critical thinking skills
- OKRs to boost customer acquisition rates significantly
- OKRs to drive successful implementation of relevant alliance principles
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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