13 customisable OKR examples for Internal Communications
What are Internal Communications 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 Internal Communications 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 Internal Communications OKRs examples
You'll find below a list of Objectives and Key Results templates for Internal Communications. We also included strategic projects for each template to make it easier to understand the difference between key results and projects.
Hope you'll find this helpful!
1. OKRs to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of internal communications
Enhance efficiency and effectiveness of internal communications
Implement a collaborative tool to reduce email communication by 50%
Identify suitable collaborative tools for team communication- Monitor and measure reduction in email usage
- Train team on the usage of the selected tool
- Achieve a 25% increase in staff participation in internal communications feedback surveys
- Implement staff incentives for survey participation
- Regularly promote surveys through company-wide communications
- Develop engaging, concise surveys for easier completion
- Develop an internal communications strategy and get approval from all department heads
- Schedule meetings with department heads for feedback
- Revise and finalize strategy based on received approval
- Draft an initial internal communications strategy proposal
2. OKRs to devise the optimal work environment in the firm
- Devise the optimal work environment in the firm
- Implement staff-chosen workplace improvements in at least 3 areas
- Review and prioritize the improvement suggestions given
- Survey staff for improvement suggestions in different areas
- Carry out prioritized improvement plans
- Reduce office complaints by 50% as per HR records
- Implement regular team-building activities to improve rapport
- Initiate open forums for addressing grievances
- Enhance employee appraisal system transparency
- Increase employee satisfaction by 25% measured by internal surveys
- Enhance internal communication strategies
- Implement regular feedback and recognition programs
- Promote work-life balance initiatives
3. OKRs to launch a successful employee advocacy program
- Launch a successful employee advocacy program
- Measure and demonstrate a 15% improvement in brand impact due to advocacy
- Implement customer advocacy strategies effectively
- Identify key metrics for evaluating brand impact
- Analyze and report increased brand impact
- Train 75% of employees on advocacy program within quarter
- Identify suitable advocacy program instructors
- Schedule advocacy training sessions for employees
- Monitor and document participation rates
- Increase internal program adoption by 25%
- Implement incentive schemes for program adoption
- Develop engaging internal communication about program benefits
- Provide comprehensive training for effective program usage
4. OKRs to enhance employee dedication via communication optimization
- Enhance employee dedication via communication optimization
- Reduce communication gap by achieving 85% timely response rate on internal chat platform
- Implement automatic reminders for unanswered chats every two hours
- Train employees on the importance of timely responses
- Monitor response rates weekly and address lapses
- Implement bi-weekly team meetings to increase interaction by 60%
- Track and measure meeting interaction increase
- Establish a bi-weekly team meeting schedule
- Prepare relevant discussion points to stimulate interaction
- Accomplish 90% positive feedback on anonymous communication satisfaction survey
5. OKRs to implement efficient governance for internal communications and editorial
- Implement efficient governance for internal communications and editorial
- Monitor and reduce communication or editorial inconsistencies by 50%
- Provide consistent editorial training to staff
- Implement a standardized communication style guide
- Regularly assess and correct content discrepancies
- Develop a comprehensive communication governance guide by end of next quarter
- Review, refine and finalize the guide
- Design and develop the preliminary guide draft
- Gather necessary communication aspects and requirements
- Train 80% of internal communication and editorial staff on new governance rules
- Monitor and confirm staff participation in sessions
- Identify internal staff requiring training on new governance rules
- Organize training sessions on new governance rules
6. OKRs to foster a motivational and engaging work environment
- Foster a motivational and engaging work environment
- Enhance internal communication channels improving employee satisfaction ratings by 25%
- Conduct satisfaction surveys to identify improvement areas
- Create an internal communication platform for real-time updates
- Implement weekly team meetings to engage open communication
- Implement a recognition scheme, appreciating 100% exceptional employee contributions
- Communicate the scheme to all employees
- Develop a structure for the recognition scheme
- Draft criteria for identifying exceptional employee contributions
- Conduct bi-weekly innovative team-building activities to boost morale by 30%
7. OKRs to boost internal outreach and enhance brand recognition
- Boost internal outreach and enhance brand recognition
- Achieve a 30% increase in employee engagement in company wide initiatives
- Create engaging, inclusive intra-office communication channels
- Implement regular employee feedback sessions on company initiatives
- Recognize and reward active employee participation in initiatives
- Gain 20% more followers on all company social media platforms
- Create engaging and shareable content consistently
- Foster collaboration with relevant influencers
- Implement targeted ad campaigns on each platform
- Execute 2 brand promotional activities leading to 40% increase in brand awareness
- Implement, measure, and adjust the promotional strategies
- Identify relevant platforms for brand promotion activities
- Plan and develop engaging promotional content
8. OKRs to enhance the career development of our team members
- Enhance the career development of our team members
- Increase attendance at professional development workshops by 20%
- Develop inspiring guest speaker events
- Launch a promotional campaign across various platforms
- Start a referral program to encourage attendance
- Achieve a 30% increase in team members applying for internal promotions
- Improve communication on promotion criteria and processes
- Promote awareness of available internal promotion opportunities
- Implement training programs to enhance employees' skills
- Implement a process for individualized career development plans for all team members
- Develop a standardized template for individual career development plans
- Schedule one-on-one meetings to discuss and tailor these plans
- Define clear career paths for each job position in the team
9. OKRs to improve internal company communication
- Improve internal company communication
- Implement a new communication tool addressing identified communication issues by week 8
- Select and trial run the best-fit communication tool by week 5
- Evaluate and brainstorm possible communication tool solutions by week 2
- Implement and test communication tool, addressing issues by week 8
- Conduct a survey to identify current communication challenges by week 4
- Identify and invite relevant participants for the survey
- Draft a list of questions addressing current communication issues
- Analyze and compile survey results by week 4
- Achieve 10% reduction in communication-related complaints by end of quarter
- Establish a feedback system for improving communication-related issues
- Review and revise current communication protocols in place
- Implement a weekly training on effective communication skills for employees
10. OKRs to foster a comprehensive feedback culture
- Foster a comprehensive feedback culture
- Decrease negative feedback issues by 30% through improvement interventions
- Develop and implement a comprehensive customer service training program
- Regularly analyze customer satisfaction surveys for improvement areas
- Revise and optimize internal processes associated with customer complaints
- Organize four constructive feedback workshops for all staff members
- Outline the key goals and topics for each feedback workshop
- Arrange for appropriate facilities and equipment to host workshops
- Send invites and workshop agenda to all staff members
- Implement confidential weekly team feedback surveys increasing participation by 60%
11. OKRs to enhance benefits promotion for higher utilization rates
- Enhance benefits promotion for higher utilization rates
- Increase benefits awareness by 30% through targeted campaigns and communications
- Create easily understandable informational materials about benefits
- Implement direct communication to disseminate benefits information
- Develop targeted campaigns highlighting benefits
- Improve employee satisfaction with benefits by 20% based on feedback surveys
- Conduct anonymous survey for employees to express benefit concerns
- Implement improvements based on survey feedback
- Analyze survey responses to identify dissatisfaction areas
- Achieve 15% increase in benefits utilization among eligible employees
- Regularly communicate individual benefit utilization rates
- Implement a training program explaining different benefit options
- Increase awareness through frequent benefits-related reminders
12. OKRs to improve overall HR efficiency and employee satisfaction
- Improve overall HR efficiency and employee satisfaction
- Reduce time-to-hire by 20%
- Implement streamlined, efficient hiring processes
- Develop and provide virtual interview capabilities
- Utilize AI for initial candidate screening
- Increase employee engagement survey scores by 15%
- Enhance internal communication about company goals and progress
- Recognize and reward employee achievements regularly
- Implement a team-building program to strengthen employee relationships
- Implement at least two new employee well-being initiatives
- Develop and launch the chosen initiatives
- Research different types of employee well-being initiatives
- Select two initiatives that will best support our team
13. OKRs to enhance overall employee engagement across the organization
- Enhance overall employee engagement across the organization
- Increase survey response rates for engagement measures by 30%
- Personalize survey invitation emails to increase interest
- Implement incentives to motivate more survey participation
- Simplify survey design for easier comprehension and completion
- Achieve 15% uplift in off-duty voluntary corporate initiatives participation
- Develop enticing incentives for participants in corporate initiatives
- Organize engaging and accessible initiatives suitable for all staff
- Promote off-duty voluntary initiatives through internal communication
- Drive up positive responses to employee satisfaction items by 20%
- Enhance communication channels for better transparency and understanding
- Implement regular recognition and reward programs for staff achievements
- Facilitate team building activities to improve team coherence
Internal Communications 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
Having too many OKRs is the #1 mistake that teams make when adopting the framework. The problem with tracking too many competing goals is that it will be hard for your team to know what really matters.
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
Setting good goals can be challenging, but without regular check-ins, your team will struggle to make progress. We recommend that you track your OKRs weekly to get the full benefits from the framework.
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 Internal Communications 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
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 Internal Communications 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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