5 customisable OKR examples for Talent Retention
What are Talent Retention 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.
Crafting effective OKRs can be challenging, particularly for beginners. Emphasizing outcomes rather than projects should be the core of your planning.
We have a collection of OKRs examples for Talent Retention to give you some inspiration. You can use any of the templates below as a starting point for your OKRs.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.
Building your own Talent Retention 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 Talent Retention OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different Talent Retention 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 boost talent retention
Increase Employee Retention
Create an employee recognition program
Select a method of recognizing employees who meet the criteria.- Set goals and criteria for employee recognition.
- Identify a reward system for employees who meet the criteria.
- Create a system for tracking employee recognition.
- Increase employee retention rate by 15%
- Create an engaging work environment.
- Develop a competitive benefits package.
- Establish a career growth plan.
- Implement regular performance reviews.
- Increase employee satisfaction ratings by 25%
- Create a list of actionable items to improve employee satisfaction.
- Monitor employee satisfaction ratings and make adjustments as needed.
- Survey employees to gain insight into their satisfaction levels.
- Implement a system to track employee satisfaction ratings.
2. OKRs to enhance talent retention strategies
- Enhance talent retention strategies
- Implement training programs to improve skills of at least 75% of the employees
- Implement and monitor said training programs
- Develop appropriate training programs in those areas
- Identify areas of skill deficiency among employees
- Increase employee engagement scores by 15% through enhanced communication strategies
- Introduce an open-door policy for improved cross-level communication
- Conduct regular, structured feedback sessions to address employee concerns
- Implement weekly team meetings to discuss objectives and progress
- Reduce staff turnover by 10% by implementing a comprehensive employee satisfaction program
- Implement feedback from satisfaction surveys
- Develop an employee satisfaction program
- Conduct regular employee satisfaction surveys
3. OKRs to reinstate Intel's victorious culture and unify its talent pool
- Reinstate Intel's victorious culture and unify its talent pool
- Implement a quarterly team-building activity to foster unity among 95% of employees
- Identify various team-building activities suitable for all employees
- Monitor employee participation, aiming for 95% involvement
- Establish a scheduling and communication plan for activities
- Increase talent retention rate to 90% through effective incentive programs
- Implement annual employee feedback surveys
- Develop a comprehensive incentive program to reward employee performance
- Provide regular career development opportunities
- Achieve a 10% increase in internal promotion rate, strengthening our talent base
- Create opportunities for internal growth and advancement
- Implement training programs to enrich employee skills and performance
- Regularly review and adjust promotion criteria
4. OKRs to reinforce One Intel team culture and nurture talent effectively
- Reinforce One Intel team culture and nurture talent effectively
- Facilitate skills enhancement training for 80% of team members
- Identify necessary skills for enhancement based on team's job roles
- Develop or source relevant training program for identified skills
- Schedule and coordinate team members participation in training
- Increase employee engagement survey scores by 20%
- Initiate periodic career development and training programs
- Implement regular team-building activities and exercises
- Encourage open communication and welcome feedback
- Reduce employee turnover rate by 10%
5. OKRs to decrease direct funded vacancies under 2% of labor force
- Decrease direct funded vacancies under 2% of labor force
- Implement a robust recruitment strategy that fills 70% of open positions
- Identify key roles and skills needed for vacant positions
- Employ diverse sourcing methods to attract potential candidates
- Utilize algorithm-based programs for efficient talent acquisition
- Increase internal promotion processes by 30% to reduce vacancies
- Analyze current promotion trends to identify potential improvements
- Develop a skill-upgrading program for current employees
- Implement and monitor promotion performance scoring system
- Lower employee attrition rate to 4% through enhancing retention programs
- Implement a comprehensive employee mentorship program
- Create additional opportunities for career advancement
- Enhance benefits packages to increase employee satisfaction
Talent Retention 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 Talent Retention 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 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 Talent Retention OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
- OKRs to enhance contribution to project outcomes
- OKRs to effectively introduce sales representatives to clients
- OKRs to improve the Disaster Recover process
- OKRs to streamline and enhance compliance review and implementation process
- OKRs to enhance the customer advocacy program
- OKRs to enhance the efficiency of internal team communication
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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