Use OKRs to focus teams during tough times

Ask your team... What is most important for the next three weeks? Even in good times, successful organizations focus on the handful of initiatives that can make a real difference, deferring less urgent ones.

Particularly in tough times, an effective goal-setting system with disciplined thinking at the top, with leaders who invest the time and energy to choose what counts, may determine whether a business will survive or not.

Their leaders commit to those choices in word and deed. By standing firmly behind a few top-line OKRs, they give their teams a compass and a baseline for assessment.

What are our main priorities for the coming period? Where should people concentrate their efforts?

An effective goal-setting system starts with disciplined thinking at the top, with leaders who invest the time and energy to choose what counts.

This Starter Kit

Below Coda doc is designed to help you and your team get started with OKRs. If you are new to OKRs, take this process a step at a time.