2 OKR examples for Career
What are Career OKRs?
The Objective and Key Results (OKR) framework is a simple goal-setting methodology that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s. It became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s, and it's now used by teams of all sizes to set and track ambitious goals at scale.
Creating impactful OKRs can be a daunting task, especially for newcomers. Shifting your focus from projects to outcomes is key to successful planning.
We have curated a selection of OKR examples specifically for Career to assist you. Feel free to explore the templates below for inspiration in setting your own goals.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read more about the OKR meaning online.
Best practices for managing your Career OKRs
Generally speaking, your objectives should be ambitious yet achievable, and your key results should be measurable and time-bound (using the SMART framework can be helpful). It is also recommended to list strategic initiatives under your key results, as it'll help you avoid the common mistake of listing projects in your KRs.
Here are a couple of best practices extracted from our OKR implementation guide 👇
Tip #1: Limit the number of key results
The #1 role of OKRs is to help you and your team focus on what really matters. Business-as-usual activities will still be happening, but you do not need to track your entire roadmap in the OKRs.
We recommend having 3-4 objectives, and 3-4 key results per objective. A platform like Tability can run audits on your data to help you identify the plans that have too many goals.
Tip #2: Commit to the weekly check-ins
Don't fall into the set-and-forget trap. It is important to adopt a weekly check-in process to get the full value of your OKRs and make your strategy agile – otherwise this is nothing more than a reporting exercise.
Being able to see trends for your key results will also keep yourself honest.
Tip #3: No more than 2 yellow statuses in a row
Yes, this is another tip for goal-tracking instead of goal-setting (but you'll get plenty of OKR examples below). But, once you have your goals defined, it will be your ability to keep the right sense of urgency that will make the difference.
As a rule of thumb, it's best to avoid having more than 2 yellow/at risk statuses in a row.
Make a call on the 3rd update. You should be either back on track, or off track. This sounds harsh but it's the best way to signal risks early enough to fix things.
Building your own Career OKRs with AI
While we have some examples below, it's likely that you'll have specific scenarios that aren't covered here. There are 2 options available to you.
- Use our free OKRs generator
- Use Tability, a complete platform to set and track OKRs and initiatives
- including a GPT-4 powered goal generator
Best way to track your Career OKRs
Your quarterly OKRs should be tracked weekly in order to get all the benefits of the OKRs framework. Reviewing progress periodically has several advantages:
- It brings the goals back to the top of the mind
- It will highlight poorly set OKRs
- It will surface execution risks
- It improves transparency and accountability
Spreadsheets are enough to get started. Then, once you need to scale you can use a proper OKR platform to make things easier.
If you're not yet set on a tool, you can check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates guide to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.
Career OKRs templates
We've covered most of the things that you need to know about setting good OKRs and tracking them effectively. It's now time to give you a series of templates that you can use for inspiration!
We've added many examples of Career Objectives and Key Results, but we did not stop there. Understanding the difference between OKRs and projects is important, so we also added examples of strategic initiatives that relate to the OKRs.
Hope you'll find this helpful!
OKRs to enhance career growth of junior team members through mentorship
- Enhance career growth of junior team members through mentorship
- Improve junior team members' project completion rate by 20%
- Provide constructive feedback and guidance frequently
- Establish a mentorship program within the team
- Implement regular hands-on training sessions for junior team members
- Conduct weekly personalized training sessions for each junior team member
- Identify individual training needs for every junior team member
- Dedicate time to execute training sessions weekly
- Develop weekly personalized training plans
- Achieve a 15% increase in junior team members assuming leadership roles in projects
- Implement leadership training programs for junior team members
- Create opportunities for mentorship from senior leaders
- Delegate more responsibilities to promising junior members
OKRs to improve your career path
- Provide comprehensive, quality career path advice to our customers
- Increase the number of customers returning for repeat career path advice by 30%
- Increase customer satisfaction ratings for career path advice by 20%
- Monitor customer satisfaction ratings and adjust strategies to reach desired 20% increase.
- Analyze customer feedback data to identify areas of improvement.
- Create a customer satisfaction survey for career path advice.
- Implement changes based on customer feedback to improve career path advice.
- Increase the number of customers receiving career path advice by 50%
- Monitor and evaluate customer feedback to ensure career path advice services are meeting customer needs.
- Analyze customer survey results to determine areas of opportunity for career path advice.
- Develop and implement a customer survey to assess current needs related to career path advice.
- Create targeted campaigns to promote career path advice services to existing customers.
More Career OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
OKRs to improve incident management OKRs to increase organic traffic by 20% OKRs to reinforce innovation within the finance department operations OKRs to enhance the quality of software releases through manual testing OKRs to enhance the quality and comprehensibility of technical documentation OKRs to successfully launch and break-even via pre-sales
OKRs resources
Here are a list of resources to help you adopt the Objectives and Key Results framework.
- To learn: Complete 2024 OKR cheat sheet
- Blog posts: ODT Blog
- Success metrics: KPIs examples