This document discusses how to use OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) to achieve year-end goals. It explains that OKRs are a method for defining and tracking objectives and outcomes. The webinar covers what OKRs are, why they work through alignment, accountability, visibility and engagement. It provides tips on writing SMART objectives and key results, and examples of how companies like SnapLogic use OKRs. The webinar encourages attendees to get started with OKRs and try out the 7Geese goal setting platform.

1. It’s not too late! How to use OKRs to
achieve your year end goals
What an OKR really is and how the process works
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2. IT’S NICE TO MEET YOU.
Wendy Pat Fong
Director of Customer Success
@7Geese #GetOkrs
Kelly Batke
Director of Marketing, 7Geese
Darren Cunningham
VP of Marketing, SnapLogic

3. AGENDA 1. What are OKRs?
2. Why OKRs work
3. How to write an OKR
4. How SMART are your OKRs?
5. What happens after you set your OKRs
6. Who is using OKRs
7. Q & A

4. WHAT ARE OKRS?
!
OKRs stands for Objectives and Key Results. It is a method of
defining and tracking objectives and their outcomes

5. POLL #1
Where do you currently store your goal setting?
In a goal setting platform/technology
I store them in Excel or Word
I write them down on paper
We don’t store them anywhere

6. WHY OKRS?
• Alignment and business performance
• Accountability and focus
• Visibility and communication
• Engagement and motivation

7. ALIGNMENT AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
• Alignment of top priorities on organizational, departmental, and
individual levels
• Cascade from top to bottom and vice versa for alignment
• Company as a whole is heading towards same direction

8. ACCOUNTABILITY AND FOCUS
Seeing the direct impact of an individual objective has on the overall
success creates:
• Accountability: Taking responsibility of the objectives one has set
and making sure that they are reached
• Focus: Ability to prioritize the objectives that have a direct impact
on peers and company

9. VISIBILITY AND COMMUNICATION
Objectives are public!
• Promotes transparency in the organization
• Communication is centered around priorities:
• “What can I do to support you?”
• “How are we doing as a team?”
• “Where are we at?”

10. ENGAGEMENT AND MOTIVATION
• Motivating to see progress
• Ability to show what one has accomplished
• Sense of identity when there is a direct impact on the success of
company
• Higher quality of teamwork

11. POLL #2
Do your employees know what the company objectives are?
Yes, absolutely
Probably, we talk about it a lot
Definitely not
I really don’t know

12. SO WHERE DO WE START?
Objective (for organization)
• “What is the outcome?”
• “What are we trying to accomplish?”
Key results
• “What are the specific things I need to do?”
• “How do I know I am successful?”
• “What factors can I fully control?”

13. OKR EXAMPLE IN BUSINESS
CEO: Grow Business
• VP Sales: Grow revenue to $2M
• $1M in North America
• $1M in Europe and Asia
• VP Engineering: Launch mobile app
• Hire 3 mobile developers
• Launch mobile app in App Store
• Have 100K users using new app by June

14. CASCADING OKRS

15. HOW SMART ARE YOUR GOALS?

16. NOT SO SMART GOALS
Not so Specific: “Grow Sales”
Not so Measurable: “Generate more leads for sales”
Not so Attainable: “hire and train three new developers”
Not so Relevant: “Write a new blog post every month”
Not so Timely: “Launch new website”

17. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Score after the quarter
Assess the results
Readjust if necessary

18. WHO IS USING OKRS?

20. SNAPLOGIC
• Company founded in 2006, based in San Mateo, CA
• 2010 decision was made to build a completely new cloud integration
platform
• New development team leaders from Google drove decision to adopt OKRs
SnapLogic.com

21. RECOMMENDATIONS
• Get company-wide buy in on how and why to implement OKRs the right way
!
• While your rolling out OKRs, get started right away with the Recognition portal

23. 7GEESE

24. 7GEESE

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26. THANKS FOR
JOINING!
A recorded version of this Webinar will be available
on our blog at blog.7geese.com
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27. Q & A