11 customisable OKR examples for Writing
What are Writing 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.
Formulating strong OKRs can be a complex endeavor, particularly for first-timers. Prioritizing outcomes over projects is crucial when developing your plans.
We've tailored a list of OKRs examples for Writing to help you. You can look at any of the templates below to get some inspiration for your own goals.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.
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Our customisable Writing OKRs examples
You'll find below a list of Objectives and Key Results templates for Writing. We also included strategic projects for each template to make it easier to understand the difference between key results and projects.
Hope you'll find this helpful!
1. OKRs to enhance writing prowess and broaden vocabulary use
Enhance writing prowess and broaden vocabulary use
Practice writing — publish a 1000-word article each week on varying subjects
Research diverse topics to write about each week- Dedicate time to write a 1000-word article weekly
- Publish written articles on a chosen platform regularly
- Complete a writing course that addresses your specific needs
- Research and select a suitable writing course
- Identify personal writing weaknesses and areas for development
- Enroll in the chosen course and participate fully
- Read five books of diverse genres and note down unfamiliar words
- Write down and define each unknown word
- Select five books from different genres
- Read each book, identifying unfamiliar words
2. OKRs to improve your writing skills
- Improve my writing skills
- Increase the average time spent writing from 1h to 4h/week
- Increase the number of words published per week from 250 to 1,500 words
- Increase the accuracy of spelling and grammar in written work by 20%
- Implement a system for feedback and follow-up on errors.
- Utilize a spell-check tool for all documents.
- Establish an internal style guide for written work.
- Have a colleague or supervisor review all written work.
- Increase the average rating of written pieces by 1 star
- Create action plans to improve the quality of written pieces.
- Identify areas of improvement based on survey feedback.
- Monitor progress and adjust plans as needed.
- Conduct a survey to understand why pieces are rated lower than expected.
3. OKRs to improve writing skills
- Improve blog post writing skills
- Increase the average time spent on each blog post by 20%
- Receive at least 10 positive comments on blog posts
- Create and publish 3 blog posts with a minimum of 500 words each
4. OKRs to certify in development using JTA, Blueprint, Item writing & peer reviews
- Certify in development using JTA, Blueprint, Item writing & peer reviews
- Score above 85% in 3 JTA application-related mock tests to ensure understanding
- Complete practice mock tests for review and correction
- Study all relevant JTA application-related materials
- Achieve 85% or higher in 3 official JTA mock tests
- Develop and review 10 unique development items using Blueprint per week
- Create and structure these items using Blueprint
- List potential topics for 10 unique development items
- Review and edit each item weekly
- Participate in 2 peer reviews per month to enhance Blueprint, item writing proficiency
- Constructively critique and edit peers' blueprints
- Volunteer for two peer review sessions
- Attend all scheduled blueprint item writing workshops
5. OKRs to enhance skill at describing campus locations
- Enhance skill at describing campus locations
- Get feedback on descriptions from 3 different peers for improvement
- Analyze received feedback for possible improvements
- Send descriptions to selected peers for feedback
- Identify 3 peers to review your descriptions
- Achieve a 90% satisfactory rating on descriptive composition focused on campus locations
- Regularly practice writing descriptive compositions
- Thoroughly study descriptions of various campus locations
- Request and incorporate feedback from peers
- Practice detailed description of 5 different campus places every week
- Choose 5 unique campus locations to explore each week
- Review and revise your descriptions regularly for improvement
- Write a detailed description for each chosen location
6. OKRs to achieve production readiness for MassBalancer ISCC EU feature
- Achieve production readiness for MassBalancer ISCC EU feature
- Ensure 100% documentation of the MassBalancer ISCC EU feature for user reference
- Identify gaps in the current documentation
- Review existing documentation on the MassBalancer ISCC EU feature
- Update or create necessary documents to fill in gaps
- Complete all necessary development tasks associated with the MassBalancer ISCC EU feature
- Finalize the code for the MassBalancer ISCC EU feature
- Test the feature for efficiency and bug fixes
- Release and integrate the feature into the main software platform
- Successfully conduct beta testing for MassBalancer ISCC EU with zero critical issues
- Set up and distribute MassBalancer ISCC EU to selected beta testers
- Identify and resolve any critical issues immediately
- Regularly monitor and collect feedback from beta testers
7. OKRs to elevate productivity in academic research
- Elevate productivity in academic research
- Implement and maintain a research schedule, ensuring minimum 5 hours of effective work daily
- Draft a dedicated 5-hour daily research schedule
- Regularly evaluate and adjust schedule for effectiveness
- Implement routine to follow the established research schedule
- Submit two high-quality research pieces for publication review
- Conduct comprehensive research on chosen topics
- Submit papers for publication review
- Write and edit two research papers
- Attend at least 3 professional development workshops related to research methods or practices
- Ensure participation in each workshop attended
- Register for the chosen professional development workshops
- Identify suitable workshops focused on research methods
8. OKRs to enhance English proficiency through diligent study and improved writing
- Enhance English proficiency through diligent study and improved writing
- Earn a minimum of 85% in weekly vocabulary and grammar quizzes for continued improvement
- Take practice quizzes to gauge understanding and progress
- Ask for help and clarification when struggling
- Spend an hour each day studying and reviewing vocabulary and grammar
- Complete 3 comprehensive English workbooks for advanced language study by end of quarter
- Finish studying and reviewing all workbooks
- Make a daily study plan covering all workbooks
- Purchase 3 advanced English workbooks for language study
- Write, revise and polish 4 essays, improving each after feedback from a mentor
- Draft initial versions of four separate essays
- Seek detailed feedback from a mentor
- Revise and polish each essay
9. OKRs to establish a proficient grant research volunteer team
- Establish a proficient grant research volunteer team
- Recruit and onboard 10 proficient grant researching volunteers in the team
- Develop a concise volunteer recruitment ad focusing on grant research skills
- Hold webinars or interviews to assess applicants' proficiency
- Design an effective onboarding program for selected volunteers
- Successfully apply and secure a minimum of 5 grants
- Research and identify potential grants relevant to your project
- Prepare and submit comprehensive, compelling grant applications
- Follow up promptly on application status and feedback
- Develop and finalize at least 20 complete grant applications
- Identify 20 suitable grant opportunities for application
- Submit final versions of each grant application
- Create, review and edit draft applications for all identified grants
10. OKRs to successfully execute "Test Objective"
- Successfully execute "Test Objective"
- Deliver final report documenting the results and lessons learned
- Document lessons learned and improvement strategies
- Finalize and proofread the final report
- Highlight primary results and key findings
- Complete initial research and preparation by Week 2
- Dedicate Day 8 to thorough examination of available resources
- Finalize and document findings and preparations by Day 14
- Define research objectives and desired outcomes by Day 6
- Achieve 25% progress towards "Test Objective" every week
- Assess weekly targets and track progress consistently
- Actively utilize learning resources to understand concepts better
- Allocate dedicated time daily for focused test preparation
11. OKRs to boost the success rate of competitive grant applications
- Boost the success rate of competitive grant applications
- Achieve a 20% increase in submitted high-quality grant applications
- Introduce incentives for submitting quality grant applications
- Develop specific criteria for distinguishing high-quality applications
- Provide staff with targeted grant writing training
- Improve grant writing skills of the team by conducting 3 intensive training sessions
- Gather materials for training sessions
- Hire experienced grant writing trainers
- Schedule three intensive grant writing training sessions
- Form partnerships with 5 key organizations to strengthen grant proposal narratives
- Formulate proposals for partnership and exchange mutual benefits
- Identify 5 key organizations relevant to our grant proposal narrative
- Establish contact and open dialogue with targeted organizations
Writing 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 Writing 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 Writing OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
- OKRs to implement controls within the quality department
- OKRs to enhance tactical and strategic leadership skills for software developer team lead
- OKRs to achieve 100% productivity in financial statement preparation
- OKRs to enhance processes to support accurate and timely compliance reporting
- OKRs to improve efficiency in team support
- OKRs to enhance strategic planning and cut costs in category and product management
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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