6 customisable OKR examples for Workforce Development
What are Workforce Development 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.
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.
We have curated a selection of OKR examples specifically for Workforce Development to assist you. Feel free to explore the templates below for inspiration in setting your own goals.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.
Building your own Workforce Development 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 Workforce Development OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different Workforce Development 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 to implement a comprehensive Learning and Development plan
To implement a comprehensive Learning and Development plan
Achieve a 90% completion rate on all new training within the workforce
Monitor employee progress and provide helpful feedback- Develop engaging and interactive training content
- Implement incentives for completing trainings promptly
- Develop and launch three online training modules for enhancing employee skills
- Identify necessary skills and create content for training modules
- Launch and promote the training modules to employees
- Develop interactive online platform for the modules
- Design a tailored L&D roadmap for every department by consulting with each team leader
- Understand departmentals needs through consultation
- Schedule meetings with each department's team leader
- Create individualized L&D roadmaps based on discussions
2. OKRs to streamline competency development and retention for improved business performance
- Streamline competency development and retention for improved business performance
- Achieve a 20% reduction in key skill gaps as measured by pre and post assessments
- Implement targeted training based on identified gaps
- Identify key skill gaps through initial assessment
- Conduct post-training assessment to measure improvement
- Identify 5 key competencies crucial for business within two weeks
- Survey industry experts on business-related competencies
- Compile, review, and finalize key competencies list
- Research core competencies essential for business operations
- Develop a skill training plan for targeted 80% workforce adoption rate
- Identify skills required for the targeted workforce adoption rate
- Establish methods for tracking and evaluating adoption rates
- Develop detailed training program focused on these skills
3. OKRs to enhance workforce capabilities
- Enhance workforce capabilities
- Facilitate at least two job rotation opportunities for each department to boost cross-functional knowledge
- Identify potential job rotation positions in every department
- Develop a job rotation proposal for manager approval
- Implement approved job rotation plan
- Increase staff participation in professional development courses by 30%
- Develop engaging professional development courses tailored to staff interests
- Promote course benefits and encourage participation via internal communications
- Offer incentives for course completion, such as salary increases or bonuses
- Train 85% of employees in one new skill set pertaining to their work
- Identify one new skill set beneficial to each job role
- Develop or source suitable training resources
- Schedule and conduct training sessions for all employees
4. OKRs to enhance skill set of existing workforce to address talent scarcity
- Enhance skill set of existing workforce to address talent scarcity
- Achieve 80% successful completion rate for upskilling initiatives
- Implement engaging, efficient upskilling programs
- Identify essential skills needed for optimum job performance
- Monitor progress and provide encouragement and resources
- Increase enrollments in training programs by 75%
- Implement aggressive marketing campaigns targeting potential trainees
- Enhance program structure to make it more attractive
- Provide special discounts or offers for new enrollees
- Improve post-training productivity metrics by 30%
- Develop personalized post-training productivity goals for each employee
- Implement regular check-ins for progress monitoring and feedback
- Design refresher courses to reinforce training materials
5. OKRs to enhance individual skill set through learning and development
- Enhance individual skill set through learning and development
- Complete four online courses relevant to my field
- Submit all required coursework and successfully pass each course
- Identify and enroll in four online courses related to my field
- Regularly attend all scheduled virtual classes and tutorials
- Achieve 85% or higher on post-training quizzes
- Dedicate daily study time specifically for learning content
- Seek clarification on any topics that appear confusing
- Review all training materials before attempting quizzes
- Implement learned skills in one live project successfully
- Plan the process incorporating these skills into the project
- Identify a live project where newly acquired skills apply
- Execute the plan, monitoring progress and adjusting as necessary
6. OKRs to enhance workforce competence through continuous development and upskilling
- Enhance workforce competence through continuous development and upskilling
- Increase employee participation in development programs by 30%
- Promote programs through multiple, accessible channels
- Provide incentives for employee participation
- Develop engaging, relevant content for development programs
- Implement 2 new training modules for skill enhancement by the quarter end
- Identify the skills that need enhancement
- Develop two new training modules
- Incorporate new modules into current training system
- Achieve a 20% improvement in skill assessment scores quarter-over-quarter
- Pursue regular constructive feedback sessions
- Develop a comprehensive daily study schedule
- Utilize relevant resources for additional learning
Workforce Development 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 Workforce Development 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
We recommend using a spreadsheet for your first OKRs cycle. You'll need to get familiar with the scoring and tracking first. Then, you can scale your OKRs process by using a proper OKR-tracking tool for it.
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 Workforce Development OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
- OKRs to achieve HR certification
- OKRs to boost monthly quote volumes to 4million
- OKRs to improve mastery of behavioral-driven development (BDD)
- OKRs to broaden creative and innovative capabilities in sales reporting analytics
- OKRs to enhance client engagement post-representative visit
- OKRs to increase client satisfaction for better retention rate
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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