3 OKR examples for Sales Strategy
How you write your OKRs can make a huge difference on the impact that your team will have at the end of the quarter. But, it's not always easy to write a quarterly plan that focuses on outcomes instead of projects.
That's why we have created a list of OKRs examples for Sales Strategy to help. You can use any of the templates below as a starting point to write your own goals.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read more about the OKR meaning online.
Best practices for OKR
Your objectives should be ambitious, but achievable. Your key results should be measurable and time-bound. It can also be helfpul to list strategic initiatives under your key results, as it'll help you avoid the common mistake of listing projects in your KRs.
Building your own OKRs with AI
While we have some examples below, it's likely that you'll have specific scenarios that aren't covered here. There are 2 options available to you.
- Use our free OKRs generator
- Use Tability, a complete platform to set and track OKRs and initiatives – including a GPT-4 powered goal generator
How to track OKRs
Your quarterly OKRs should be tracked weekly in order to get all the benefits of the OKRs framework.
Spreadsheets are enough to get started. Then, once you need to scale you can use a proper OKRs-tracking platform to make things easier.
We recommend Tability for an easy way to set and track OKRs with your team.
Check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.
Sales Strategy OKRs templates
The examples have Sales Strategy Objectives and Key Results, but they may also include the tasks that can help you get there.
OKRs to achieve exceptional sales performance as a Hotel Sales Director
- Achieve exceptional sales performance as a Hotel Sales Director
- Develop and conduct a sales training program to increase team's closing rate by 15%
- Create customized sales training program addressing these areas
- Identify team's weaknesses and areas for improvement in sales
- Implement sales training program and track progress regularly
- Increase team's quarterly sales by 20% compared to previous quarter
- Implement weekly sales training workshops for skill development
- Motivate team with performance-based incentives
- Analyze previous sales data for improvement pointers
- Implement a new sales strategy leading to at least 10% more room bookings
- Design a new, targeted sales strategy to boost bookings
- Analyze current sales strategy and identify areas for improvement
- Implement new sales strategy and provide proper staff training
OKRs to increase the number of qualified leads generated by BDRs by 30%
- Improve BDR performance to generate more qualified leads
- Implement new outreach strategy to increase lead conversion by 10%
- Increase BDR call volume by 20%
- Increase email response rate by 25%
- Improve lead qualification accuracy by 15%
OKRs to develop a winning sales strategy
- Develop a winning sales strategy
- Improve the cross-sell ration by 15%
- Achieve net sales of $12M
- Reduce customer churn rate from 35% to 15%
- Increase revenue/sales staff from $1.2k to $2k
- Increase the Average Revenue Per Unit (ARPU) to $275
More OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
OKRs to ensure successful application and data migration with improved system stability and availability OKRs to implement a comprehensive talent pool database through strategic mapping OKRs to enhance the Precision of Collected Data OKRs to increase online community subscriptions for startups OKRs to reduce manual tasks through automation and process improvement OKRs to enhance engagement and commitment via effective communication
OKRs resources
Here are a list of resources to help you adopt the Objectives and Key Results framework.
- To learn: Complete 2024 OKR cheat sheet
- Blog posts: ODT Blog
- Success metrics: KPIs examples