3 OKR examples for Strategic Initiative
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 Strategic Initiative 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
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.
Most teams should start with a spreadsheet if they're using OKRs for the first time. Then, once you get comfortable you can graduate to a proper OKRs-tracking tool.
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.
Strategic Initiative OKRs templates
We've added Strategic Initiative Objectives and Key Results, but also the initiatives that relate to the OKRs.
OKRs to support CEO in executing strategic initiatives and tracking progress
Enhance CEO's support for executing the company's strategic initiatives
Conduct regular progress reports and adjust strategies accordingly- Collaborate with CEO to ensure high-quality strategic execution
- Improve CEO's communication with cross-functional teams
- Develop a tracking system for CEO's strategic initiatives
OKRs to enhance capability as an institutional research analyst in higher education
- Enhance capability as an institutional research analyst in higher education
- Attend 3 professional development webinars on higher education research analysis techniques
Participate and take notes during each webinar- Sign up for the chosen webinars
- Identify 3 webinars focused on higher education research analysis techniques
- Mentor and guide 2 junior research analysts to improve their capability development
- Provide direct training on necessary software/tools
- Develop a personalized growth plan for each analyst
- Establish regular weekly meetings for guidance and feedback
- Develop, present, and implement 1 strategic initiative to improve research methodologies
- Identify weakness in current research methodologies
- Create strategic initiative for process improvement
- Present and implement strategy to team
OKRs to boost participation in wellness events through strategic alignment
- Boost participation in wellness events through strategic alignment
- Ensure 80% of participants complete post-event satisfaction surveys
- Send reminder emails regularly to encourage completion
- Send out satisfaction surveys immediately following the event
- Offer incentives for completing the survey
- Increase registration for wellness events by 15%
- Send personalized email invitations to past participants
- Collaborate with local influencers for event promotion
- Develop engaging social media campaigns promoting wellness events
- Enhance engagement during wellness events by 25%
- Offer small incentives for active participation or greater attendance
- Add interactive health-related games or quizzes to wellness events
- Promote wellness events through all available internal channels
More OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
- OKRs to boost student attendance to improve test scores
- OKRs to build strategic partnerships to reach new audiences and drive customer acquisition
- OKRs to successfully complete one level of the game
- OKRs to implement new functionality in our product offering
- OKRs to substantially reduce technical debt across all projects
- OKRs to streamline financial processes for enhanced profit growth
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