How To Run An Effective OKR Workshop (Full Step-By-Step Guide)

In this video, Product Designer and Workshop Facilitator, Johan Holst gives you a step-by-step guide on how to facilitate this simple and effective 2-hour OKR Workshop with your team. This OKR workshop will help you and your team get clarity on what goals to focus on and how they will be measured.

⏰ Video Timestamps

0:00 What are OKRs
0:30 What are Objectives?
0:46 What are Key Results?
1:04 Basics about this workshop
2:23 Exercise 1 - Ideating Objectives
4:34 Exercise 2 - Voting on Objectives
6:52 Exercise 3 - Decider Vote
8:35 Time for a break - Facilitator prep
9:47 Exercise 4 - Ideate on Key Results
11:04 Exercise 5 - Voting on Key Results
12:00 Exercise 6 - Decider Vote 2
14:00 Visualizing the results
15:08 Exercise 7 - Deciding how to follow up
16:22 Next Steps

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How To Run An Effective OKR Workshop (Full Step-By-Step Guide)

[tylerdove]

This is great! What do you suggest for a team that doesn't have good baseline metrics? From the video, one key result was : "Reduce the time taken to resolve after sales service issues by 40%". In the case where the team doesn't know what their current resolution time is, what would you suggest?

[DevanBernardino]

Thank you so much! This is precisely what I needed! Keep dropping the value bombs =)

[rhinocorpcom]

Great video! Would you typically do followup sessions to decide how to achieve these goals?

[linbelejacobsen]

I love that this seems very efficient. Also when allowing discussions to flow, often the extroverts talk without stop, so it's nice to keep them in check like this.
BUT...
If you are to have a diverse team of managers and doers in the same meeting, they might have very different values and knowledge of the problems the company/product should solve.
e.g. Developers might not know that HR is struggling with hiring new talent or that sales haven't sold much this past year.

Do you do some work/exercises upfront before this workshop to gather people a bit and give them insight, or is diversity a strength for the strategy that is the result of this workshop?
I am just a bit worried that going from too much discussion to too little might be a concern. Please advise what activities/prerequisites should be done before this workshop!

[Whatever]

One big thing you’re missing is the initiatives to achieve their key results.

[JowitaZiobro]

I lobe that one needs to add a key result that is measurable. However, what if you’re in a place where on can’t provide the numbers because they don’t know the original stat?

[Calvin-CDTAYoung]

On results, do you think this is where SMART applies? (specific, measurable, attainable/actionable/achievable, relevant, time-based/timely)

[therealsheikh]

These exercises are so repetitive in every AJ&Smart workshop. No innovation.