Beginning Your OKR Journey with Viva Goals

As you’re working through the OKR process and they see that OKRs will give them more focus and a clearer view of how their efforts help to drive the business forward, people start to see the benefits. For some people it's about an increased opportunity for visibility and recognition with the company while others derive more value from a better understanding of how they help make the company a success.

Also, the fact they can be used to help prevent people being given work that’s outside their area can be really attractive – being able to look at the task and see if it lines up to the OKRs is a powerful tool. You need to have an environment where people are empowered to say “This doesn’t align to my OKRs – is there someone else who is better suited to this?” to get the full benefit as well.

The main benefit for me as a leader is the visualization of the whole vision and the connection from every personal KPI to these goals. That helps our people in the organization to understand why this is necessary to do, even if it’s not clear in the first place. Due to the helping mentality in our organization and the transparency of team and company KPIs / objectives, we had multiple situations where people working on completely different topics are very supportive because they have some additional experience in these topics – something like technical support.

By not only recognizing this by the leaders but also talking about these positive experiences, it helps the user to motivate working together – also for “other” objectives.