3 OKR examples for Strategy Leader

What are Strategy Leader OKRs?

The OKR acronym stands for Objectives and Key Results. It's a goal-setting framework that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s, and it became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s. OKRs helps teams has a shared language to set ambitious goals and track progress towards them.

Crafting effective OKRs can be challenging, particularly for beginners. Emphasizing outcomes rather than projects should be the core of your planning.

We have a collection of OKRs examples for Strategy Leader to give you some inspiration. You can use any of the templates below as a starting point for your OKRs.

If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read more about the OKR meaning online.

Best practices for managing your Strategy Leader 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.

Tability's audit dashboard will highlight opportunities to improve OKRs

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.

Tability's check-ins will save you hours and increase transparency

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 Strategy Leader 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 Strategy Leader OKRs

OKRs without regular progress updates are just KPIs. You'll need to update progress on your OKRs every week to get the full benefits from the 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.

Tability's Strategy Map makes it easy to see all your org's OKRs

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.

Strategy Leader 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!

You'll find below a list of Objectives and Key Results templates for Strategy Leader. We also included strategic projects for each template to make it easier to understand the difference between key results and projects.

Hope you'll find this helpful!

OKRs to enhance strategic decision-making skills

Enhance strategic decision-making skills
Gather and analyze feedback on decision efficiency from 5 colleagues
Collect and analyze the returned surveys
Identify five colleagues to provide feedback
Develop and distribute an efficiency feedback survey
Implement learned strategies in 3 real-life scenarios successfully
Utilize learned strategy in first identified scenario
Identify 3 real-life scenarios where strategies can be applied
Document the success of each strategy implementation
Complete a decision-making course with at least 85% score
Consistently attend classes and complete all assignments
Register for a reputable decision-making course
Study regularly to achieve at least 85% score

Track these OKRs

OKRs to secure the buy-in from the leadership of the 5 MAYD clusters on our strategy

Secure the buy-in from the leadership of the 5 MAYD clusters on our strategy
Conduct 5 customized persuasive presentations for each MAYD cluster's leadership
Create compelling graphics and content for five presentations
Identify key points for each MAYD cluster's personalized presentation
Schedule and conduct the presentations for each cluster's leadership
Secure formal written agreement from at least 4 of the 5 cluster heads on strategy
Send drafted agreement to the 5 cluster heads
Draft detailed strategy agreement for cluster head approval
Follow up for signatures of at least 4 heads
Outline benefits and get a 75% positive initial feedback from MAYD cluster heads
Conduct survey to gauge initial feedback
Identify and list benefits of MAYD cluster heads
Prepare comprehensive presentation highlighting benefits

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OKRs to align team's mission and vision with company's strategic goals

Align team's mission and vision with company's strategic goals
Update mission and vision statements to reflect 80% overlap with company strategy
Revise statements to reflect 80% overlap
Review current mission and vision statements
Identify overlap with company strategy
Get feedback from 90% of team members affirming clearer strategic alignment within 6 weeks
Analyze and address received feedback on strategy
Send the survey to all team members
Develop a straightforward survey about strategic alignment
Facilitate three workshops to promote understanding of company's strategic objectives by month's end
Send invitations to all company employees
Define topics and prepare materials for three different workshops
Schedule three workshop dates and secure venues

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Track these OKRs

More Strategy Leader OKR templates

We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.

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