15 customisable OKR examples for New Team
What are New Team 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.
OKRs are quickly gaining popularity as a goal-setting framework. But, it's not always easy to know how to write your goals, especially if it's your first time using OKRs.
To aid you in setting your goals, we have compiled a collection of OKR examples customized for New Team. Take a look at the templates below for inspiration and guidance.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.
Building your own New Team 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
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Our customisable New Team OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different New Team 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 successfully adapt and contribute to the new team and project
Successfully adapt and contribute to the new team and project
Establish effective rapport with 100% of the team members within the first month
Facilitate team bonding activities or events- Regularly communicate and provide feedback to the team
- Schedule one-on-one introductory meetings with each team member
- Fully understand project scope and deliver 3 actionable insights by end of month two
- Brainstorm and identify key areas for essential insights
- Develop and finalize three actionable insights based on analysis
- Review and dissect all project scope details meticulously
- Successfully deliver assigned tasks with at least 90% punctuality over the quarter
- Utilize a planner or digital tool for schedule management
- Regularly review and adjust task timelines as needed
- Prioritize tasks according to deadlines and important
2. OKRs to enhance and promote collaboration within the new team
- Enhance and promote collaboration within the new team
- Implement a weekly round-table discussion to share ideas and progress
- Develop a structured agenda for idea sharing
- Create a recurring weekly meeting schedule for discussions
- Assign a meeting facilitator to track progress
- Conduct at least 4 productive team-building activities
- Plan and schedule 4 different team activities
- Research various team-building activities suitable for the team
- Organize necessary materials and resources
- Increase project workflow transparency by 30% through a shared online platform
- Implement a shared online project management platform
- Regularly update each project's status on the platform
- Train team on using the new platform effectively
3. OKRs to establish and publicize a Health & Safety Newsletter for awareness
- Establish and publicize a Health & Safety Newsletter for awareness
- Attract and acquire at least 200 subscribers within 2 weeks after launching
- Offer early subscriber discounts or exclusive benefits
- Organize webinars or virtual events promoting the launch
- Develop and implement a comprehensive social media marketing plan
- Feedback survey reports at least 80% positive response rate by the end of Q2
- Implement strategies to increase response rates
- Design and distribute impactful and targeted feedback surveys
- Review feedback continuously and make service improvements accordingly
- Develop the first issue of the H&S Newsletter by employing a professional design
- Hire a professional designer experienced in newsletter creation
- Oversee design process of the first issue
- Compile relevant health and safety content
4. OKRs to scale and ensure long-term success of the new team
- Scale and ensure long-term success of the new team
- Improve team performance by implementing at least 2 training programs to enhance skills
- Implement the selected training programs and track progress through regular evaluations and updates
- Research and select two training programs that align with the identified skill gaps
- Communicate the importance of the training programs and obtain buy-in from team members
- Identify key skill gaps within the team through assessments and evaluations
- Increase team size by hiring and onboarding 3 new members
- Conduct effective interviews and assessments to select the most qualified candidates for the team
- Advertise job openings through various channels to reach a wide pool of potential candidates
- Update job descriptions and qualifications to attract suitable candidates for new team members
- Implement a thorough onboarding process to ensure smooth integration and successful transition for new members
- Establish a sustainable workflow that consistently meets team's productivity goals
- Continuously analyze data and adjust workflow as needed to improve productivity and efficiency
- Identify productivity goals and define clear metrics for measuring success
- Streamline workflow processes to eliminate inefficiencies and reduce manual tasks
- Implement regular team meetings to discuss progress, challenges, and brainstorm solutions
- Achieve a 90% retention rate of existing team members through effective engagement efforts
5. OKRs to enhance accountability and coordination in onboarding and calls
- Enhance accountability and coordination in onboarding and calls
- Decrease new employees’ onboarding time by 25%
- Use online tools for remote onboarding
- Implement an intensive, compact structured training program
- Assign mentors to guide new hires
- Reduce missed or late calls by 30%
- Promote accountability among team members for timely responses
- Establish a strict schedule for all calls
- Implement a reliable automated notification system for upcoming calls
- Increase customer call resolution rate to 90%
- Monitor calls regularly and provide feedback
- Conduct specialized training for customer service agents
- Implement customer resolution best practice guidelines
6. OKRs to successfully migrate and train Sales Team on the new CRM
- Successfully migrate and train Sales Team on the new CRM
- Complete data migration from current CRM to new CRM without loss by 100%
- Validate post-migration data for completeness and accuracy
- Backup existing CRM data before initiating the migration process
- Execute careful, monitored migration to the new CRM system
- Conduct comprehensive training for 100% of the Sales Team on the new CRM
- Monitor the sales team's progress and application of CRM training
- Schedule mandatory training sessions for all sales team members
- Develop a detailed CRM training curriculum for the sales team
- Achieve 90% proficiency among Sales Team members on new CRM usage within the quarter
- Provide ongoing feedback and support to improve CRM proficiency
- Perform regular skills assessments to identify knowledge gaps
- Implement comprehensive CRM training for all sales team members
7. OKRs to drive Agile and Scrum adoption across teams
- Drive Agile and Scrum adoption across teams
- Implement Agile and Scrum in 5 teams with an 80% adherence rate
- Assign a Scrum Master for each team
- Provide Agile and Scrum training to all team members
- Monitor progress and enforce 80% adherence rate
- Achieve 95% satisfaction rate for Agile and Scrum training sessions
- Update and improve training curriculum based on feedback
- Implement post-training evaluations to gather participant feedback
- Provide extra support for participants struggling with the material
- Train 10 teams on Agile methodologies and Scrum framework
- Schedule follow-ups to assess understanding
- Identify the experienced trainers in Agile and Scrum methods
- Allocate distinct training sessions for each team
8. OKRs to launch a high-quality Real Estate focused newsletter
- Launch a high-quality Real Estate focused newsletter
- Publish 12 engaging, informative articles related to Real Estate
- Research hot topics in real estate industry
- Write drafts for 12 informative articles
- Edit, proofread, and publish articles
- Gather 250 confirmed subscribers for the newsletter within the quarter
- Design attractive subscription call-to-action buttons
- Offer exclusive content to newsletter subscribers
- Regularly promote the newsletter on social media
- Attract three sponsorships or advertisements specifically for this Real Estate newsletter
- Identify potential sponsors relevant to the real estate industry
- Reach out and pitch to the identified potential sponsors
- Develop a compelling sponsorship proposal for the newsletter
9. OKRs to enhance the employee adaptation process for better integration
- Enhance the employee adaptation process for better integration
- Implement a new orientation program for 80% of newly hired employees
- Develop metric tools to track program participation and effectiveness
- Assign a team to implement and oversee the new orientation program
- Design an effective, comprehensive orientation structure for new hires
- Increase employee engagement score by 25% after 3 months of employment
- Conduct consistent one-on-one check-ins with each employee
- Implement regular team-building activities
- Use recognition programs to reward outstanding work
- Decrease average time to full productivity for new hires by 20%
- Include performance tracking in the first week
- Provide mentorship programs for quicker skill acquisition
- Implement an intensive, streamlined onboarding program
10. OKRs to enhance our overall communication effectiveness
- Enhance our overall communication effectiveness
- Implement a weekly all-hands communication meeting improving participation by 25%
- Offer incentives for active participation
- Schedule consistent weekly all-hands meetings
- Develop engaging and participatory meeting agendas
- Increase internal newsletter open rates by 10%, ensuring better information dissemination
- Integrate more engaging, relevant content within newsletters
- Improve subject lines to capture employee interest
- Implement succinct, visual-rich layout for emails
- Reduce email response time by 15% boosting operational efficiency
- Prioritize incoming emails based on urgency and relevance
- Implement an email management tool to automate responses
- Dedicate specific time slots for checking and responding to emails
11. OKRs to establish a comprehensive new hire onboarding program
- Establish a comprehensive new hire onboarding program
- Develop a clear, structured onboarding plan within the first 2 weeks
- Outline a schedule for training sessions, workshops, and meetings
- Prepare a comprehensive, easy-to-follow onboarding guide
- Identify key roles, responsibilities, and systems new hires must understand
- Achieve 90% satisfaction rate on new hire feedback surveys about onboarding experience
- Develop a detailed, comprehensive onboarding program with clear expectations
- Collect regular feedback from new hires and implement necessary adjustments
- Provide consistent mentorship and support for new employees during onboarding
- Train 100% of HR team to effectively implement onboarding program
- Choose appropriate training resources or programs
- Schedule and oversee training sessions
- Identify existing knowledge gaps in the HR team's onboarding skills
12. OKRs to establish robust strategies to prevent newsroom sellouts
- Establish robust strategies to prevent newsroom sellouts
- Instigate strict vendor vetting procedures that reduce sellout risk by 30%
- Introduce mandatory background checks for all potential vendors
- Develop strict criteria for vendor performance evaluation
- Implement mandatory sellout risk training for procurement team
- Implement newsroom integrity training for 80% of journalistic staff
- Schedule training sessions for journalism staff
- Monitor and track staff participation rates
- Develop a comprehensive newsroom integrity training curriculum
- Develop a comprehensive risk assessment protocol for potential sellouts by 25%
- Identify potential sellout products and their current market demand
- Create mitigation strategies for potential risks
- Evaluate potential financial impact of a 25% sellout
13. OKRs to successfully migrate and train team on the new sales CRM system
- Successfully migrate and train team on the new sales CRM system
- Achieve a 10% sales increase after full adoption of the new CRM system
- Implement customer targeting strategies using CRM analytics
- Conduct comprehensive training for staff on the new CRM system
- Regularly review sales data and adjust strategies as needed
- Migrate all existing customer data to the new CRM system without errors
- Confirm successful migration and rectify any errors
- Transfer the verified data to the new CRM system
- Validate the accuracy and completeness of existing customer data
- Train 100% of the sales team to proficiently use the new CRM system
- Monitor and evaluate sales team's proficiency post-training
- Conduct regular hands-on training sessions with the sales team
- Establish a comprehensive training plan for the new CRM system
14. OKRs to increase newsletter subscriptions through website interaction
- Increase newsletter subscriptions through website interaction
- Implement two new call-to-action prompts encouraging newsletter sign-ups
- Measure and report prompt effectiveness
- Integrate prompts into website and email communications
- Design visually appealing call-to-action prompts
- Reduce the newsletter opt-out rate by 15% through improved content quality
- Regularly analyze unsubscribe reasons for improvements
- Implement feedback to improve newsletter content quality
- Conduct a survey to understand subscribers' content preferences
- Achieve a 20% conversion rate from site visitors to newsletter sign-ups
- Implement engaging pop-ups for the newsletter
- Offer exclusive content upon newsletter subscription
- Improve site design for easy access to sign-up forms
15. OKRs to streamline testing process for new features
- Streamline testing process for new features
- Train 100% of the testing team on efficient, newly-introduced testing procedures
- Monitor and evaluate the team’s understanding post-training
- Identify the updated testing procedures for training
- Organise comprehensive training sessions for the team
- Implement automated testing for 70% of new features
- Develop automated testing scripts for the features
- Integrate tests into the development process
- Identify new features viable for automated testing
- Decrease the average feature testing time by 35%
- Implement automated testing for common test scenarios
- Train team on efficient testing strategies
- Conduct regular code reviews to identify issues early
New Team 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
Focus can only be achieve by limiting the number of competing priorities. It is crucial that you take the time to identify where you need to move the needle, and avoid adding business-as-usual activities to your 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
Having good goals is only half the effort. You'll get significant more value from your OKRs if you commit to a weekly check-in process.
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 New Team 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
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 New Team OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
- OKRs to qR code integration
- OKRs to increase customer retention rate
- OKRs to foster a motivational and engaging work environment
- OKRs to achieve higher NPS and CSAT ratings
- OKRs to foster an inclusive, equitable, and diverse office culture
- OKRs to enhance maturity and capabilities of Product Owners
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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