3 customisable OKR examples for Mental Wellness

What are Mental Wellness 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 Mental Wellness. 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 Mental Wellness 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.

Our customisable Mental Wellness OKRs examples

You'll find below a list of Objectives and Key Results templates for Mental Wellness. 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 life quality and mental health

Enhance life quality and mental health
Attend 15 therapy or wellness sessions for stress relief techniques
Regularly attend scheduled therapy or wellness sessions
Research and choose a suitable therapy or wellness center
Schedule 15 sessions devoted to stress relief techniques
Implement a healthy eating plan, with reduced processed food intake by 50%
Purchase fresh produce and lean proteins for meals
Prepare meals at home using whole food ingredients
Develop a meal plan with 50% less processed foods
Engage in regular physical activity at least 4 days each week
Begin daily physical activity routine following the schedule
Create a weekly schedule including physical activity 4 times
Choose preferred workouts or sports for physical activity

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2. OKRs to enhance personal life satisfaction

Enhance personal life satisfaction
Attend 2 personal growth workshops or events
Register and secure tickets for the chosen events
Research and select two personal growth workshops or events to attend
Arrange transportation and accommodation if necessary
Read 5 books related to personal development
Research and select 5 personal development books
Create a reading schedule for each book
Write a brief summary after finishing each book
Increase weekly exercise to 5 hours for mental wellness
Incorporate different forms of exercise like walking, yoga, or swimming
Monitor progress consistently to stay motivated and make necessary adjustments
Create a weekly schedule dedicating an hour a day to physical activity

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3. OKRs to achieve a 15 lbs weight loss

Achieve a 15 lbs weight loss
Dedicate at least 30 minutes daily for mental health activities like meditation
Arrange a quiet, distraction-free space for meditation
Set a daily reminder for 30 minutes of meditation
Investigate different meditation techniques today
Reduce intake of processed foods by 50%
Identify and eliminate processed foods from current diet
Increase consumption of whole, non-processed foods
Create a weekly meal plan involving less processed foods
Increase daily workout routine to burn an additional 500 calories daily
Incorporate 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training into daily routine
Learn and perform 20 minutes of bodyweight exercises daily
Add a 2-mile fast-paced walk every morning

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Mental Wellness 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 OKRs

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.

Tability's check-ins will save you hours and increase transparency

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 turn your Mental Wellness OKRs in a strategy map

The rules of OKRs are simple. Quarterly OKRs should be tracked weekly, and yearly OKRs should be tracked monthly. 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 OKRs

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 Mental Wellness OKR templates

We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.

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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