Beginning Your OKR Journey with Viva Goals

Good question jimhopkinson,

I took some overarching company goals as the Objective and then created smaller Key Results under that...they don't quite line up quarterly but are instead aligned to key events throughout the year.

That way, people can easily see the link between what they're doing on a day to day basis through to the Key Results and then the overall objective. We're very much looking at it as a step by step approach which will, all things being well, achieve the overall objectives so the focus is on the immediate rather than the annual goal.

thank you for this great question jimhopkinson.
This is actually a tough challenge. The first part is to specify your annual goals which is more as describing your "vison" but also should clarify how these goals can help you to achieve the vision.

By describing annual goals you're putting an enormous pressure on all team members, no matter of the job level. When you split things up to smaller chunks and short-term goals this helps to motivate the people working on these milestones but also helps to get more details on the way to the annual goal.