Working together to achieve what matters most should be a priority for everyone right? Without alignment that's quite often not the case. Teams end up solving problems in isolation or are reliant on other teams to make progress and end up waiting endlessly.This challenge is a common reason why organisations turn to OKR. Particularly as they scale and the work becomes more complex. The problem is that OKR does not

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We all know how important it is to foster the right culture at work. No doubt you've heard a lot of people talking about the need to set meaningful Values and Principles. But what does this actually mean? No doubt you've been looking around for a clear answer and landed here hoping to find an answer!  Well we have you covered. Here's a simple comparison of the difference between Company

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What if you had the power to predict the future? Well, it might be closer than you think! Today I wanted to talk about a relatively complex topic: leading vs lagging indicators.The purpose of this article is to go a little deeper. What are leading indicators and why is it important to have them in your goal setting toolkit?What is a Leading Indicator?In plain English, a leading indicator is a

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What is a problem statement and how do you use it? No one likes being told what to do. Yet so often in business, that's exactly what we do. We talk to people in terms of what we’d like them to do. The problem is this drives a compliance mindset and a lack of ownership from the people who are taking on the work. There is a simple way around

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Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) can be seen as one way to translate and carry goals. If you think about it, however, you can create good goals and bad goals at the same time. Ultimately, OKRs may be misused, overused, and abused if you are not careful with creating and using them.If you are setting OKRs, you must note that there are bad consequences if you fail to use them

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There’s certain elements of your organisation which need to be in place (or actively being worked on) in order to make OKR successful. If these elements are not true for you, then you should probably avoid OKR. The business has an actionable strategy to execute onProduct teams need an actionable strategy, Operational functions need a strategy for the functionTeams are mission aligned with end to end capability to deliver outcomesTeams need

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