How can an (entire) organization be aligned with meaningful and motivating goals, achieve measurable added value through cross-departmental working, and respond to a rapidly changing external world? The answer is provided by the agile control system Objectives & Key Results, or OKR for short, defined by Intel and later made public by Google.
Participants of the OKR Masterclass will learn where OKR originated from, how OKR fundamentally works and how to successfully implement OKR in their organization as an OKR Master and agile change agent.
Learning Objectives:
- Understanding of the basics of agile working
- Defining and formulating optimal objectives and key results
- Use and integration of OKR in the daily operational routine
- Methodologies for company-wide implementation of OKR
Topic areas:
- Basics of agile organization and agile working
- OKR in the context of VUKA
- Basics of the OKR method (origin, structure, use)
- Flow of the OKR cycle and execution of the events of the OKR framework
- Formulation of good objectives and measurable key results
- OKR as a procedure for the agile transformation of organizations
- Role of the OKR coach as an agile change agent
- Implementation of OKR in the company
- Case studies from practice
- Exercises for writing OKR and application of own OKR
- Introduction to (agile) change management