If you're just getting started with OKRs, writing your first one can feel daunting at times. So we've collected sample OKRs to help you get going!
Human Resources
Objective: Successfully implement OKR methodology
Key results:
- 100% participation in OKR implementation training
- 70%+ positive employee feedback after 3 months of implementation
- Shorten OKR training process for new hires by 1 week
Objective: Improve employee engagement
Key results:
- Increase employee satisfaction by 20% -as reflected in quarterly engagement survey
- Implement 20% additional employee engagement activities
- Managers double on positive feedback received from employees
Objective: Improve employee retention
Key results:
- Reduce voluntary employee termination by 20%
- Conduct exit interviews with 100% of voluntary termination employees
- Identify 10% of at-risk employees during the performance review process
Objective: Improve recruiting process
Key results:
- Reduce average time to fill job vacancy by 7 days
- Increase competency interview questions by 10%
- Decrease cost per hire by 10%
Objective: Boost staff career development
Key results:
- 20% increase participation in voluntary career mapping exercise
- Boost internal promotion rate by 5% over the quarter
- Complete implementation of new career mentoring initiative
Objective: Improve salary competitiveness
Key results:
- Have clear salary levels for 70% of employees
- Use of 3 additional industry salary reports for comparison
- 70% of employees have salaries on par with industry rates
Objective: Increase benefits satisfaction
Key results:
- 50% improvement in ‘benefits’ category of employee satisfaction survey
- Benchmark current employee benefits with current industry standards
- Reduce employee health care expenses by 10%
Sales
Objective: Increase recurring revenue by 10% from last quarter
Key results:
- Increase sales qualified leads by 5%
- Lead to close rate increases by 2.5%
- Target of $300,000 new sales
Objective: Dominate sales like a rockstar
Key results:
- Increase upsell revenue by 5%
- Be a demo champion (100 demos/month)
- Close $75k in new sales
Define sales-success customer journey map process using new personas
Marketing
Objective: Increase inbound marketing leads
Key results:
- 20% increase of demo requests via PPC landing pages
- 10% boost in conversions from webinar attendees
- 2x eBook downloads over last month
Objective: Drive more traffic to product landing page
Key results:
- Double visitors to marketing website via organic search
- 20% click-through to landing page via newsletter
- 5% increase in time spent on landing page
Objective: Improve blog content quality
Key results:
- 25% increase in blog subscribers
- 20% increase in time spent on page
- 10% increase in blog content shares on average
Objective: Engage with industry thought leaders for press
Key results:
- 5 interviews with industry influencers
- 3 of 5 interviews published on recognized publications like Forbes, Inc etc.
- 2 joint webinars with industry thought leaders
Objective: Increase company brand recognition
Key results:
- 3 positive reviews from industry thought leaders
- 10% increase of marketing prospects from sponsored industry events
- 20% increase in PPC ad click-through demo request conversions
Objective: Improve email marketing efforts
Key results:
- 2x webinar registrants through email invitation
- 25% increase in e-book download via email click-through
- 10% increase in demo requests referred to email content
Objective: Create weekly newsletters for marketing leads
Key results:
- 40% click-through rate on average for every newsletter
- 20% of newsletter readers convert to demo requests
- 10% customer conversion rates for newsletter referred demo requests
Product
Objective: Improve overall product usability
Key results:
- Release 2 product updates that improve core feature adoption by 5%
- X-feature retention increases to over 50%
Objective: Improve first user experience
Key results:
- Identify and implement core metrics that measure new user success
- Run 3 user studies focused on first user experience
- Improve desirable outcome rates by 50%
Engineering
Objective: Build a high performing engineering team
Key results:
- Increase performance capacity by 25% (Activity: Hire 5 new back-end developers)
- Develop and document performance metrics for engineering team
- Attend 2 additional industry recognized conferences over last quarter
Objective: Improve quality of development process
Key results:
- Implement process to assess development tools being used
- Reduce the number of customers reported bugs by 25%
- Increase mandatory educational development time to 1 week each quarter
Objective: Increase data security
Key results:
- Reduce occurrences of data breach to zero
- Increase data recovery rate to 100%
- 50% decrease in data migration and backup time
Objective: Improve company security
Key results:
- 100% attendance of security awareness staff training
- 50% increase in security using new protocol for addressing product security issues
- Implement a new antivirus system across company
Objective: Improve the quality of product releases
Key results:
- Reduce bugs found during development process by 20%
- Improve unit testing coverage from 50% to 70%
- Increase sprint capacity from 85 to 100 SP
- Individual developers contribute 20% more code reviews by the end of every sprint
Objective: Improve speed of feature releases
Key results:
- Increase length of QA testing phase before entering user testing phase by 2 weeks
- Reduce reported bugs by 50% a week prior to feature release
- Decrease of reported issues during development by 25%
Objective: Improve front-end speed
Key results:
- Ship X additional story points over last quarter
- Reduce average lead time to X
- Increase unit test coverage by X%
Objective: Contribute to product quality
Key results:
- Increase code review time by 20 minutes each day
- Increase time spent on learning new languages to 1 week each quarter
- Ship 2 additional new front-end features this quarter
Objective: Improve software application performance
Key results:
- Reduce API response time to 4s
- Reduce average application response time to <450ms
- Decrease code review times by half
Objective: Hire top backend talent
Key results:
- Attend 2 additional technology meetups over last quarter
- Improve recruiting process with new screening processes