12 customisable OKR examples for Execution
What are Execution OKRs?
The OKR acronym stands for Objectives and Key Results. It's a goal-setting framework that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s, and it became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s. OKRs helps teams has a shared language to set ambitious goals and track progress towards them.
Formulating strong OKRs can be a complex endeavor, particularly for first-timers. Prioritizing outcomes over projects is crucial when developing your plans.
We've tailored a list of OKRs examples for Execution 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.
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Our customisable Execution OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different Execution 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 establish successful strategy execution for value realization
Establish successful strategy execution for value realization
Define and document 3 new key operational processes to ensure strategy alignment
Document these processes in writing- Define 3 new key operational processes
- Verify process aligns with overall strategy
- Achieve 20% increase in KPIs directly impacted by revised strategies
- Implement relevant training for team on new strategies
- Continuously monitor and adjust strategies based on KPI results
- Review and update current strategies based on previous KPI performances
- Improve team's strategic alignment scores by 30% through purposeful training initiatives
- Implement regular alignment evaluation measures
- Provide constructive feedback and strategic guidelines
- Develop a comprehensive, purposeful training program
2. OKRs to elevate my technical execution proficiency
- Elevate my technical execution proficiency
- Complete at least 4 industry relevant certification courses
- Deliver 3 complex projects using learned technical skills without major issues
- Monitor progress closely, solving issues promptly
- Allocate resources and teams for each complex project efficiently
- Establish a comprehensive project timeline and checkpoints
- Get positive feedback on improved technical skills from 5 different team members
- Actively utilize improved skills in team projects
- Request feedback from team members
- Enhance technical skills through training or self-learning
3. OKRs to improve and optimize team's SEO projects' execution and output
- Improve and optimize team's SEO projects' execution and output
- Reduce website bounce rate by 10% by improving landing page SEO
- Implement engaging, keyword-focused metadata for better search engine recognition
- Improve landing page content for relevancy and clarity
- Optimize loading speed to enhance user experience
- Rank for 20 new relevant keywords on the first page of search engine results
- Conduct a comprehensive keyword research for relevance
- Optimize website content based on selected keywords
- Build high-quality backlinks using these keywords
- Increase organic website traffic by 30% through effective SEO strategies
- Enhance on-page SEO including meta descriptions, title tags, and keywords
- Create high-quality, SEO-optimized content regularly
- Improve website's loading speed for better user experience
4. OKRs to increase expertise and execution in product knowledge and implementation
- Increase expertise and execution in product knowledge and implementation
- Implement learned theories in three real-world projects with positive feedback
- Seek out and document positive feedback for modifications
- Select three theories acquired from recent learning to apply
- Implement chosen theories into ongoing real-world projects
- Complete at least two industry-related certifications or courses
- Consistently study to successfully complete the courses or certifications
- Research and list down relevant industry-related certifications or courses
- Enroll in at least two chosen courses or certifications
- Conduct a minimum of four product knowledge sharing sessions with the team
- Schedule dates and times for each session
- Invite team members to each session
- Establish topics for four product knowledge sharing sessions
5. OKRs to develop a cohesive investor relations strategy for effective fundraising
- Develop a cohesive investor relations strategy for effective fundraising
- Secure commitments for fundraising from 5 potential investors following strategy implementation
- Schedule and conduct meetings with potential stakeholders
- Obtain written commitments from investors
- Craft persuasive, personalized pitches for potential investors
- Train 80% of team on strategy execution for secure investor communication
- Monitor and ensure 80% team participation in training
- Identify team members needing strategy execution training
- Schedule training sessions on secure investor communication
- Create strategy document involving all departments within 1 month
- Identify key stakeholders across all departments
- Schedule meetings to discuss strategies
- Write and revise comprehensive strategy document
6. OKRs to improve knowledge of ozonation process
- Improve knowledge of ozonation process
- Review and understand five new research articles on ozonation every week
- Conduct two small-scale ozonation experiments for better comprehension
- Plan and prepare the experimental procedures
- Gather necessary equipment and materials for ozonation experiments
- Execute the two small-scale ozonation experiments
- Increase discussion and learning opportunities with experts by arranging four seminars/meetings
- Plan the logistics for the four seminars/meetings
- Invite the experts and promote the events
- Identify potential experts in the desired field
7. OKRs to enhance leadership abilities for a novice team lead
- Enhance leadership abilities for a novice team lead
- Demonstrate improvement by leading 2 successful projects by the end of next quarter
- Identify and clearly define two potential leadership projects
- Develop a comprehensive, deadline-oriented action plan for each
- Execute, manage, and monitor progress for both projects effectively
- Achieve a mean feedback score of 4+ from team members in leadership effectiveness
- Improve communication and decision-making skills
- Implement a regular and effective leadership training program
- Solicit and apply feedback from team members
- Complete a certified leadership training course by quarter-end
- Research and select a certified leadership training course
- Enroll in the chosen leadership training course
- Complete the training course and obtain certification
8. OKRs to implement strategic initiatives to improve execution and value realization
- Implement strategic initiatives to improve execution and value realization
- Enhance stakeholder satisfaction by 10% through better strategic alignment
- Identify areas of misalignment and develop improvement plans
- Conduct a thorough review of current strategic alignment methods
- Implement changes and track stakeholders' satisfaction growth
- Achieve a 15% rise in measurable value from implemented initiatives
- Identify areas for initiative implementation with the maximum benefit potential
- Establish a system to track measurable value growth
- Develop and execute strategies for selected initiatives
- Increase strategic project completion rate by 20%
- Conduct regular team meetings for effective communication and updates
- Provide additional training to improve employee project handling skills
- Implement project management software to track and streamline tasks
9. OKRs to increase test automation coverage to 80%
- Increase test automation coverage to 80%
- Develop and implement 20% more automated tests every month
- Identify areas needing additional automated tests
- Integrate tests into existing system
- Write and validate new automations
- Maintain less than 5% failure rate in our automated tests
- Provide ongoing team training on test creation
- Implement rigorous quality assurance processes
- Regularly review and update the automated tests
- Improve average test execution time by 15%
- Implement more effective test optimization strategies
- Upgrade server hardware to boost processing power
- Train staff in efficient testing procedures
10. OKRs to successfully Deliver Roadmap on Schedule
- Successfully Deliver Roadmap on Schedule
- Achieve 75% of roadmap milestones by the midpoint evaluation
- Prioritize tasks to ensure effective workflow and progress
- Develop a detailed, achievable roadmap with distinct milestones
- Monitor and track progress regularly against milestones
- Draft and finalize the project roadmap within the first 2 weeks
- Ensure 100% completion and delivery of the project roadmap by quarter end
- Monitor progress regularly and provide effective feedback and assistance
- Establish clear, achievable goals for every team member involved in the project
- Dedicate specific time for addressing potential disruptions or project hurdles
11. OKRs to enhance proficiency in DevOps with AWS
- Enhance proficiency in DevOps with AWS
- Earn AWS certified DevOps engineer certification by passing the professional exam
- Review course material for AWS DevOps engineer certification
- Regularly practice with AWS hands-on labs
- Schedule and take the professional exam
- Troubleshoot and resolve at least 10 complex problems using AWS DevOps knowledge
- Implement solutions and confirm each problem's resolution
- Develop strategies using DevOps knowledge for troubleshooting each issue
- Identify and categorize ten complex problems within the AWS framework
- Successfully implement 5 DevOps projects using AWS tools and services
- Schedule project execution timeline and delegate necessary tasks
- Equip team with training on AWS tools and services
- Identify and prioritize 5 suitable projects for a DevOps approach
12. OKRs to implement a robust performance measurement system
- Implement a robust performance measurement system
- Conduct a pilot run and fix any identified issue by week 12
- Conduct the pilot run during week 11
- Identify and solve any issues by week 12
- Finalize the pilot run procedure by end of week 10
- Develop automated processes for tracking these indicators by week 8
- Identify necessary indicators for automation by week 2
- Implement and test automation process by week 7
- Design automation process for tracking indicators by week 5
- Identify and define 10 key performance indicators for system by week 4
- Finalize and define selected KPIs by week 4
- Review system functions and operation by week 1
- Identify 10 potential performance indicators by week 2
Execution 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 Execution OKRs in a strategy map
Your quarterly OKRs should be tracked weekly in order to get all the benefits of the OKRs 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 Execution OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
- OKRs to enhance the service quality for customer satisfaction
- OKRs to enhance efficiency and speed of the help desk process
- OKRs to become proficient at React
- OKRs to reduce activation churn
- OKRs to ensure readiness for GA release of product on Linux
- OKRs to improve quarterly performance through consistent check-ins with manager
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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