The OKR Journey Center

As you plan your journey and develop a rollout plan, you’ll want to assess the friction points in your current operating rhythm, draft a business value roadmap and OKRs for OKRs with your executive sponsor, anchor on best practices, consider your overall scope, chat with a coach, and hear other organizations’ launch insights.

“When I think about scaling OKRs out to thousands of employees... we couldn't do it without a tool."

— Anna Birch, Chief of Staff, Cisco Security Business Group

As you plan your journey and develop a rollout plan, you’ll want to assess the friction points in your current operating rhythm, draft a business value roadmap and OKRs for OKRs with your executive sponsor, anchor on best practices, consider your overall scope, chat with a coach, hear other organizations’ launch insights and understand how to successfully launch OKRs and transition to a Digital Operating Rhythm.

“I thought that the benefits of OKRs and WorkBoard would take a while, but it was instant. And it was contagious and transformative."

— Nanci Taylor, Vice President, Digital Strategy, IBM

	Assess Friction in your Operating Rhythm Assess the friction in your current operating rhythm to achieve your strategy, and estimate value at stake.	Read
	OKR/Results Management Decision Guide Use this playbook to help make key decisions about how you will run the results management process for your organization.	Download
	Lead the Charge on Change This communication guide for change agents can help you get key stakeholders on board and build momentum.	Download
	Managing Change When Embarking on the OKR Journey Build a community of coaches and enthusiasts to drive change.	Download
	Launch Props and Tools Posters, flashcards and OKR workshop tools you can use or personalize to your company.	Download
	Build Competency and Your Program Team Develop a network of certified OKR Coaches and results management executives to help launch and lead the OKR program.	Learn
	How to Do OKRs Right Many CEOs overdo or underdo OKRs. On this episode of the B2BaCEO podcast, WorkBoard CEO Deidre Paknad shares best practices for how to do OKRs right.	Listen
	Launching OKRs at VMware The Results Management team from VMware outlines their enterprise wide rollout, their impressive launch messaging, and how central OKRs and WorkBoard are to their CEO.	Watch
	Expert OKR & Launch Services to Accelerate Success Friends don’t let friends do OKRs alone the first time! Rather than wasting several quarters, potential momentum and employee good will with trial and error, companies turn to expert service providers to ensure a fast, successful first OKR cycle and a sustainable practice.	Learn
	Planning for OKRs in Young, High Growth Companies (Zuora) Tien Tzou, CEO at Zuora, shares his “why” for OKRs and how they launched and ramped their OKR program globally.	Watch
	Launching OKRs - Zuora's Plan Zuora sets the bar for internal and external communications, and their OKR launch was no exception! See the launch and communications plan and results in their first two quarters. Zuora has been named one of the best places to work in Silicon Valley for the last several years.	Watch
	Author Great OKRs and Communicate for Impact Avoid doing OKRs in name only with these tips to unlock the real potential of your OKR program. Perfect for leaders that want coaching.	Listen

After you’ve launched your OKR program and switched to a digital operating rhythm, make results a habit across the organization by modernizing accountability practices so key results are line of sight.

“Results should be habits, not New Year's Resolutions."

— Sarah Davis, Director of Portfolio Programs, IBM

	Results Management Maturity Levels Quickly assess how deeply OKRs and results management practices have become ingrained into your organization's operating rhythm.	Download
	Activating a Strong Coach Network OKR Coaches distribute and embed expertise as well as drive learning via community forums and engagement.	Download
	Building Results Rituals at Zendesk Brian Manougian, Director, HR Strategy & Planning at Zendesk, shares how his organization built their OKR program onto Zendesk's already strong company culture to drive focus on results.	Watch
	How Fast is Your Operating Rhythm? A Digital Operating Rhythm helps your organization accelerate strategy execution and make the most of the resources that you have.	Watch
	Business at the Pace of Change Steve Shafer, President, 3M Automotive & Aerospace and WorkBoard CEO Deidre Paknad discuss how leaders today must adapt to the pace of change and accelerate the rhythm of business, find the balance between strategic agility and long-range planning, energize teams to embrace change as the constant, and engage people in value creation.	Watch
	How a Platform Can Help 10x Your Results Denise Kanfield, Transformation Leader and OKR Guru at Cisco, shares how true alignment and transparency are only possible with a results management platform.	Watch
	Don’t Ask for Updates — Ask for Focus Why asking for “KR updates” may be undermining your actual results.	Read
	Calibrate and Celebrate Weekly Align on key results on Monday, then celebrate progress on Friday.	Listen
	Quarterly OKR Retrospective and Reset Introspection is the key to great OKRs and outcomes. See how smart teams use OKRs to celebrate, learn, and improve.	Read
	Lean into the Red In OKRs, as in life, talking about the hard things is vital to achieving your goals.	Read
	Simple Guide to Better 1on1s Build dashboards easily with WorkBoard	Read

Doing OKRs in spreadsheets or OKRs not flowing through your operating rhythm? Or maybe you’re humming along and want to harness real intelligence from a well-functioning Digital Operating Rhythm. This section can help you take your game up!

“If you have a KR and it’s green, you have success. If you pushed yourself and you fell short, as long as you have learning, then that learning lets you succeed next time."

— Andrew Kisslo, Chief of Staff, Microsoft Azure

	OKR Insights 6 Quarters Later Think beyond the quarter to results achievement over time. Workday shares facts on improved results, employee sentiment and performance patterns.	Watch
	Why use an OKR platform? The drivers for doing OKRs are undermined with a non-digital process. See how an OKR platform can help you accelerate results at scale.	Read
	Raising the Bar on Digital Transformation Sam Meckey, EVP - Head of Healthcare at EXL, shows how EXL moved the needle on the business and accelerated the pace of outcomes.	Watch
	Building Alignment and Accountability with OKRs Through aligned OKRs and better 1on1 coaching conversations, Judy Dutton, Head of Talent Management at Juniper Networks, helped leaders build competencies that drove resilience and growth.	Watch
	The OKR – MBR Connection for Team Accountability Hear Ryan Padilla, Director of Global Strategy Execution at GHX share how his organization achieves better outcomes and transformed their monthly business reviews.	Watch
	Operationalizing Organizational Transformation to Drive Outcomes Daisy Hernandez, SVP, Strategy & Operations at Zuora, explains how they drove a successful program by identifying “OKR leaders” who understand the strategy, align on the principles of alignment, and care about bringing strategy to fruition.	Watch
	The Focusing Power of OKRs Nanci Taylor, VP of Business Agility at IBM explains how sharp focus drives smarter decisions and outcomes.	Listen
	Achieving OKRs by Driving with MBRs Andrew Kisslo, Chief of Staff at Microsoft Azure Marketing, shares how his team improved results by using Monthly Business Reviews to drive focus, follow through and accountability for key results.	Watch