15 customisable OKR examples for Team Building
What are Team Building 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.
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 Team Building. 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 Team Building 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 Team Building OKRs examples
We've added many examples of Team Building Objectives and Key Results, but we did not stop there. Understanding the difference between OKRs and projects is important, so we also added examples of strategic initiatives that relate to the OKRs.
Hope you'll find this helpful!
1. OKRs to cultivate a United, Collaborative Team Environment
Cultivate a United, Collaborative Team Environment
Implement 2 team-building activities per month to foster cooperation
Research engaging team-building activities suitable for the team- Schedule and plan 2 team-building activities
- Gather feedback after each activity for improvements
- Reduce internal team disputes by 20% by implementing effective communication strategies
- Develop clear protocols for team communication and decision-making
- Implement conflict resolution training for all team members
- Conduct regular team-building activities to improve rapport
- Increase project collaboration efficiency by 30% through regular team workshops
- Conduct efficiency assessments after each workshop
- Provide constructive feedback for team improvement
- Implement weekly team workshops focused on project collaboration
2. OKRs to establish a high-performing IT team
- Establish a high-performing IT team
- Achieve 90% team satisfaction rate through team-building activities and growth opportunities
- Create and offer regular professional development opportunities
- Conduct monthly team satisfaction surveys and feedback sessions
- Implement weekly team-building exercises and workshops
- Recruit and onboard 5 IT professionals with diverse expertise
- Develop an effective onboarding process
- Launch a targeted recruitment campaign
- Identify 5 diverse IT roles needed in the company
- Develop and implement an IT team onboarding program for swift integration
- Design comprehensive IT team training materials
- Implement onboarding process in the HR system
- Identify essential skills needed for the IT team
3. OKRs to enhance team productivity with collaborative efforts
- Enhance team productivity with collaborative efforts
- Decrease project completion times by 15%
- Implement more efficient project management tools
- Incorporate additional resources or personnel
- Streamline communication processes within the team
- Increase team work-norm compliance by 30%
- Develop clear, easily understood guidelines for work-norms
- Monitor and give feedback on work-norm compliance regularly
- Implement regular team-building activities to foster collaboration
- Implement 2 team-building activities with 90% participation
- Schedule activity sessions and inform the team
- Ensure participation and collect feedback post-activities
- Identify 2 team-building activities suitable for all staff
4. OKRs to enhance a culture of accountability and productive feedback
- Enhance a culture of accountability and productive feedback
- Implement a system for tracking accountability, with 100% team adoption
- Train the team on using the chosen tool effectively
- Regularly monitor and enforce teamwide tool usage
- Identify a suitable accountability tracking software or tool
- Train team members on effective feedback methods to achieve 90% completion rate
- Monitor team members' application and improvement
- Develop a comprehensive feedback training program
- Schedule and conduct regular feedback training sessions
- Increase positive feedback within team by 20% as measured through surveys
- Encourage peer recognition through a reward system
- Provide training on effective and positive communication
- Implement regular team-building activities to strengthen relationships
5. OKRs to enhance team collaboration and knowledge sharing
- Enhance team collaboration and knowledge sharing
- Score 90% on quarterly team effectiveness and collaboration survey
- Develop and implement team building activities
- Encourage open communication and feedback within the team
- Regularly review and improve collaboration strategies
- Decrease answer-seeking time by 25% via a centralized knowledge management platform
- Continuously update and sort platform content
- Train employees on efficient search strategies
- Implement a centralized knowledge management platform
- Implement weekly team workshops leading to a 30% increase in cross-functional projects
- Monitor and evaluate participation and progress
- Designate workshop topics related to cross-functional projects
- Schedule weekly team workshops
6. OKRs to boost overall employee happiness levels
- Boost overall employee happiness levels
- Launch a peer recognition program to uplift morale by 5%
- Develop a comprehensive, engaging recognition program
- Implement the program and track its results
- Research effective peer recognition program strategies
- Implement weekly team-building activities, improving engagement scores by 7%
- Monitor engagement scores after each activity to evaluate improvement
- Identify various interactive team-building activities suitable for weekly implementation
- Schedule consistent weekly slots for these team-building exercises
- Enhance work-life balance through flexible hours, reducing stress levels by 3%
7. OKRs to establish a company-wide collaborative culture
- Establish a company-wide collaborative culture
- Implement monthly interactive team-building exercises for all departments
- Schedule regular exercise sessions within working hours
- Assign a coordinator to manage and facilitate these exercises
- Identify suitable team-building exercises for each department
- Achieve an average rating of 4/5 on collaboration in employee satisfaction surveys
- Provide training on effective communication techniques
- Introduce a platform for sharing ideas and feedback
- Implement team-building activities to enhance collaboration skills
- Reduce interdepartmental project conflicts by 20%
- Provide conflict resolution training for project managers
- Implement regular interdepartmental communication meetings
- Develop a clear, unified project vision
8. OKRs to assemble an outstanding professional team
- Assemble an outstanding professional team
- Identify and recruit 5 top performers from the industry within the deadline
- Achieve a team satisfaction rate above 90% via effective team-building activities
- Regularly assess team satisfaction through anonymous surveys
- Facilitate open communication to address team concerns
- Implement weekly team-building exercises to promote collaboration
- Implement a new training program to improve team skills by 30%
- Design a comprehensive, focused training program
- Identify necessary skills for team productivity improvement
- Schedule and conduct training sessions
9. OKRs to promote cultural humility for diverse, healthy team building
- Promote cultural humility for diverse, healthy team building
- Increase overall diversity rate in new hires by 25%
- Collaborate with diverse professional and student organizations
- Implement a diversity-focused recruitment strategy
- Provide unconscious bias training to hiring managers
- Achieve 90% positive feedback on diversity and inclusion efforts from employee surveys
- Develop and promote a workplace inclusion policy
- Implement diversity and inclusion training for all staff members
- Regularly solicit employee feedback on inclusion efforts
- Implement a cultural humility workshop for 80% of team leaders
- Schedule workshop for 80% of team leaders
- Ensure effective post-workshop follow-up activities
- Identify suitable cultural humility workshop providers
10. OKRs to develop and strengthen effective team leadership skills
- Develop and strengthen effective team leadership skills
- Facilitate 3 team building activities to foster strong interpersonal bonds and trust
- Schedule and plan the selected team building activities
- Research diverse team building activities suitable for the team
- Conduct and oversee the team building activities
- Improve communication by creating a bi-weekly open feedback system within the team
- Introduce a bi-weekly open feedback system to the team
- Schedule consistent bi-weekly feedback sessions
- Develop a set structure for providing and receiving feedback
- Increase team productivity by 20% through effective task delegation and monitoring
- Provide regular feedback to improve team performance
- Develop a routine process for monitoring progress
- Implement a system for efficient task delegation and assignment
11. 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
12. OKRs to assemble a skilled and efficient analytics team
- Assemble a skilled and efficient analytics team
- Select and hire 6 experienced data analysts by increasing recruitment efforts
- Finalize job offers and sign contracts with selected candidates
- Arrange and conduct interviews with potential candidates
- Post job vacancies on relevant career platforms
- Implement bi-weekly training sessions improving team's data analysis skills by 30%
- Design comprehensive bi-weekly training sessions
- Evaluate and measure the increase in skills post-training
- Identify key areas of improvement in team's data analysis skills
- Improve project completion rate by 20% through enhancing team collaboration and communication
- Introduce team building exercises for better collaboration
- Use project management tools to boost communication
- Implement weekly team meetings to discuss project progress
13. OKRs to streamline BIM resolves for on-site construction issues
- Streamline BIM resolves for on-site construction issues
- Reduce on-site issues identified by BIM by 25%
- Regularly update BIM models to ensure accuracy
- Enhance BIM software for improved issue identification
- Train staff on thorough BIM utilization and analysis
- Implement 2 new processes/tools for prompt issue identification and resolution
- Conduct training sessions for staff on newly implemented processes/tools
- Research potential processes/tools for quick issue identification
- Select and integrate two optimal methods into existing operations
- Achieve 90% positive feedback on BIM's performance in solving on-site construction problems
- Implement a quick response system to BIM-related issues
- Incorporate regular BIM training and troubleshooting sessions for staff
- Improve BIM model quality through consistent feedback
14. 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%
15. OKRs to replace toilet flush valves in Building 1 before the construction project
- Replace toilet flush valves in Building 1 before the construction project
- Achieve 100% replacement and functional testing of all flush valves by week 6
- Inventory all flush valves by end of Week 1
- Complete replacement and testing by Week 6
- Order replacement parts by Week 3
- Identify and purchase necessary valve replacement materials by week 2
- Research suppliers with best prices for materials
- Complete purchase of valve replacement materials
- Determine necessary valve replacement materials
- Complete replacement of 50% toilet flush valves by week 4
- Select supplier and purchase 50% of needed replacement toilet flush valves
- Inspect and verify installation of new flush valves by week 4
- Schedule installation time with building maintenance workers
Team Building 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 Team Building OKRs in a strategy map
Your quarterly OKRs should be tracked weekly in order to get all the benefits of the OKRs 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 Team Building OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
- OKRs to improve CI infrastructure by migrating to a modern provider
- OKRs to improve team performance through effective teamwork and collaboration
- OKRs to attract €1m for SAFE investment funding
- OKRs to implement client service and review process
- OKRs to enhance overall business visibility
- OKRs to integrate two applications seamlessly
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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