CEO’s Guide to adopting OKRs

Learn how to bring OKRs to your Organisation, step by step.

OKRs for not for everyone, so before you take on the journey into OKRs, think about if OKR’s are right for your company? or learn more about how Google uses OKRs

Educate your self on OKRs

☞ See OKR Books and Videos on our Resources page

Learn why OKRs do and Don’t work

☞ See if OKRs right for you

Try a Pilot with 1 team

We suggest you pick the most data-driven team which is already measuring outcomes using real data. In most companies, these could be are:

• Sales teams (track revenue)
• Marketing or Growth teams (track sign up conversions)
• Product team (Tracking Activation, Retention, Engagement)

Pick 2-3 Important Goals

Once you have understood the benefits of OKRs and decided to try them at your company, we recommend one goal, one team pilot, to try OKRs with. Discuss with your leadership team to identify the most important goal you want to track in the next 3-6 months.

Once you have identified your “one goal”, kick off a discussion with the team about using OKRs to achieve your goal. It is important that everyone involved feels that this framework is going to help the team achieve their goals

Write good Company OKRs

Inviting team to create their OKRs
OKR Review and Sign Off

Use a spreadsheet to run your OKRs

Don’t invest in a tool like north just yet. start by using our Google spreadsheet OKR templates first.

Do weekly Check-in’s

Either in person or async. Team OKR check-ins are a must. check-ins are a way for teams to signal if the goals are on track or if they need any help from other teams or leaders. In this step, teams call out blockers’ dependencies and anything else that is important for them to meet the goal.

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