2 OKR examples for Talent Retention
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 Talent Retention 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 OKR
Your objectives should be ambitious, but achievable. Your key results should be measurable and time-bound. It can also be helfpul to list strategic initiatives under your key results, as it'll help you avoid the common mistake of listing projects in your KRs.
Building your own 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
How to track OKRs
The rules of OKRs are simple. Quarterly OKRs should be tracked weekly, and yearly OKRs should be tracked monthly.
Spreadsheets are enough to get started. Then, once you need to scale you can use a proper OKRs-tracking platform to make things easier.
We recommend Tability for an easy way to set and track OKRs with your team.
Check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.
Talent Retention OKRs templates
The examples have Talent Retention Objectives and Key Results, but they may also include the tasks that can help you get there.
OKRs to boost talent retention
Increase Employee Retention
Create an employee recognition program
Select a method of recognizing employees who meet the criteria.- Set goals and criteria for employee recognition.
- Identify a reward system for employees who meet the criteria.
- Create a system for tracking employee recognition.
- Increase employee retention rate by 15%
- Create an engaging work environment.
- Develop a competitive benefits package.
- Establish a career growth plan.
- Implement regular performance reviews.
- Increase employee satisfaction ratings by 25%
- Create a list of actionable items to improve employee satisfaction.
- Monitor employee satisfaction ratings and make adjustments as needed.
- Survey employees to gain insight into their satisfaction levels.
- Implement a system to track employee satisfaction ratings.
OKRs to reinstate Intel's victorious culture and unify its talent pool
- Reinstate Intel's victorious culture and unify its talent pool
- Implement a quarterly team-building activity to foster unity among 95% of employees
- Identify various team-building activities suitable for all employees
- Monitor employee participation, aiming for 95% involvement
- Establish a scheduling and communication plan for activities
- Increase talent retention rate to 90% through effective incentive programs
- Implement annual employee feedback surveys
- Develop a comprehensive incentive program to reward employee performance
- Provide regular career development opportunities
- Achieve a 10% increase in internal promotion rate, strengthening our talent base
- Create opportunities for internal growth and advancement
- Implement training programs to enrich employee skills and performance
- Regularly review and adjust promotion criteria
More OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
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- OKRs to deliver a well-informed assessment for a potential Series A follow-on investment at XY GmbH
- OKRs to get better user retention
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