OKR Examples and Templates

The best way to get started with Objectives and Key Results is to look at some OKR Examples and Templates that give you an idea what an Objective and a Key Result should look like. 

When setting your own OKRs, remember that Objectives should focus on improvements to your team. They should inspire people and focus on quality not quantity.

Key Results should be numeric and easily measurable. They show how you’ll achieve your Objectives.

You’re in the right place if you’ve ever found yourself asking any of the following questions:

1. What are OKRs?
2. Do you have an OKR template?
3. Can you share some OKR templates? 

OKRs for project manager offer many benefits. These include increased focus and productivity as well as better transparency and alignment with your team. But when it comes to setting OKRs, project managers often have a difficult time. There’s a tendency to do what they do best and write project plans instead of OKRs. It’s a common mistake that can be solved with a little know-how and practice.

Remember: OKRs are not projects. Objectives are your big ambitious goals. These should be aspirational, time-bound, and qualitative. Key Results are used to measure the achievement of an Objective. Your Key Results should be measurable, quantitative, and difficult (but not impossible). Your projects, weekly activities, and initiatives (Plans) are what help drive the progress of your Objective forward.

OKRs for project’s manager can be the different parts of the projects he’s working on or the KPIs the project has to meet/things the project has to accomplish.

Here is an Example OKR for a Project Manager:

Objective: Successfully launch version 3 of our main product

Key Results:

• Get over 10000 new signups;
• Get published product reviews in over 15 publications;
• Achieve sign-up to trial ratio of over 25%;
• Achieve trial to paid ratio of over 50%

Using OKR software like Weekdone can also be quite beneficial for helping keep track of your OKRs especially if you are using a project management system like Jira or Asana. The big difference between project/task management tools is the level of granularity between these items and the enhanced visibility that Weekdone adds. Try it out for free.

If you need an OKR for someone who manages an office from day to day, like an office administration, you need to look at two things:

1. What are the goals for the office (team goals)?
2. What are the individual goals that people do, to achieve the team goals?

You can find many OKR examples from okrexamples.co. This is a free website that shows you how OKRs for different positions should look like. That includes OKRs for the office administration.

If you answer the first question, you can set it as the goal for the office and tie the individual goals in as key results for the office.

It is also important to remember that OKR methodology isn’t just about setting Objectives, but building a culture around it as well.

Your weekly initiatives and plans should all help achieve your long term goals and you should update the progress of your Key Results regularly. OKRs should be discussed every week. Create a weekly ritual around them and discuss and review them with your team! Otherwise, at the end of the quarter, you may find that you are way off track!

You can use an OKR tool like Weekdone. Tools like this help you to manage the OKR of your office administration. And the OKRs of your entire team. Try it out for free here.

It’s important to remember that OKRs for CEO are not the same as company’s OKRs.

The company OKRs give direction to all your teams. While personal OKRs only show what’s CEOs part in getting the company OKRs done.

All in all, you don’t actually need personal OKRs for the CEO or other employees. You can have company level OKRs and Team level OKRs. CEO would be part of the leadership or executive team. And their goals would show what they are doing to help the company move towards their quarterly goals.

If you still want to use personal OKRs for the leadership, there is a great site called OKR examples. The site has a lot of examples for both company and individual teams.