Developing your quarterly priorities and OKRs

Setting good quarterly priorities and creating an actionable implementation plan is the key to turning your strategic ideas into tangible reality. It's where the rubber meets the road and you get the traction need for momentum. We like the Objective-Key Result model developed by Intel and Google. It dovetails your strategic goals with your task plan in a nice, seamless way.

In this video we discuss the goals of quarterly planning, how OKRs work, and explain how to use the templates below, and an example.

Here is the link to download the editable template:

eckfeldt.com - coaching worksheet - quarterly objectives - editable

Here is the link to the example discussed in the video:

eckfeldt.com - coaching worksheet - quarterly objectives - example 1

For more information on OKRs, check out the issue of Better, Faster, where we covered OKRs and has several great links on the topic.

Better, Faster - 2017 July - OKRs