{"skill":{"slug":"okr-consulting","displayName":"Okr Consulting","summary":"Manage, consult on, and optimize OKRs (Objectives and Key Results). Use when helping set, track, review, score, or improve OKRs. Covers OKR philosophy, commo...","description":"---\nname: okr-consulting\ndescription: Manage, consult on, and optimize OKRs (Objectives and Key Results). Use when helping set, track, review, score, or improve OKRs. Covers OKR philosophy, common antipatterns, cadence management, scoring, visualization, check-ins, and retrospectives. Provides coaching prompts, workshop facilitation guidance, and dashboard design patterns.\n---\n\n# OKR Consulting Skill\n\nA comprehensive playbook for running world-class OKRs in any organization.\n\n## Quick Reference\n\n**OKR = Objective + Key Results**\n- **Objective**: Qualitative, inspirational, time-bound (\"What do we want to achieve?\")\n- **Key Results**: Quantitative, measurable outcomes (\"How do we know we got there?\")\n- **Rule of thumb**: 3-5 Key Results per Objective, 3-5 Objectives per quarter\n\n**Scoring (Google-style 0.0–1.0):**\n- 🟢 0.7–1.0 = Nailed it\n- 🟡 0.4–0.6 = Made progress\n- 🔴 0.0–0.3 = Missed\n\n**Sweet spot**: Average 60-70% completion. If you're hitting 100%, you're sandbagging.\n\n## Core Cadences\n\n| Cadence | Purpose | Who | Duration |\n|---------|---------|-----|----------|\n| **Annual** | Set strategic direction | Leadership | 1-2 day offsite |\n| **Quarterly** | Set tactical OKRs | All teams | 2-3 weeks |\n| **Weekly** | Progress check-ins | Team leads | 15-30 min |\n| **Monthly** | Mid-quarter review | Cross-functional | 1 hour |\n| **End-of-Q** | Score, retro, learn | All | Half-day |\n\n## My Role as OKR Consultant\n\n### During OKR Setting\n- Challenge vague objectives (\"What does 'improve' mean?\")\n- Push for measurable KRs (\"How will you know?\")\n- Flag too many OKRs (\"Which 3 matter most?\")\n- Check vertical alignment (\"Does this ladder up?\")\n- Check horizontal dependencies (\"Who else needs to succeed?\")\n\n### During the Quarter\n- Weekly: Prompt for confidence updates\n- Bi-weekly: Surface at-risk KRs\n- Monthly: Facilitate mid-quarter review\n- Ongoing: Track blockers and escalate\n\n### End of Quarter\n- Prompt for self-scoring\n- Facilitate retrospective discussion\n- Extract lessons for next cycle\n- Archive and document\n\n## References\n\nDetailed guidance in `references/`:\n- **[philosophy.md](references/philosophy.md)** — Origins, Four Superpowers, why OKRs work\n- **[antipatterns.md](references/antipatterns.md)** — Google's Classic 6 + Big 10 mistakes\n- **[cfrs.md](references/cfrs.md)** — Conversations, Feedback, Recognition (the \"secret sauce\")\n- **[workshops.md](references/workshops.md)** — Facilitation guides for OKR-setting sessions\n- **[check-ins.md](references/check-ins.md)** — Weekly check-ins, fist-to-five voting, templates\n- **[scoring.md](references/scoring.md)** — How to score, when to adjust, confidence ratings\n- **[visualization.md](references/visualization.md)** — Dashboard patterns, display methods\n- **[templates.md](references/templates.md)** — OKR templates for Discord, docs, slides\n\n## Quick Coaching Prompts\n\n**When setting OKRs:**\n- \"If you could only accomplish ONE thing this quarter, what would it be?\"\n- \"How will you know you succeeded? What's the number?\"\n- \"Is this a 'must-hit' commitment or a 'shoot for the moon' stretch?\"\n- \"Who else depends on this? Who do you depend on?\"\n\n**When reviewing progress:**\n- \"On a scale of 0-10, how confident are you right now?\"\n- \"What's the single biggest blocker?\"\n- \"If this stays on current trajectory, where do you land?\"\n- \"What would need to change to go from yellow to green?\"\n\n**When scoring at end-of-quarter:**\n- \"What did you learn that you didn't know 12 weeks ago?\"\n- \"If you had to do this OKR again, what would you do differently?\"\n- \"Was the goal right but execution off, or was the goal wrong?\"\n\n## Key Sources\n\nThis skill synthesizes knowledge from:\n- **Measure What Matters** by John Doerr (2018) — The definitive OKR book\n- **Google's OKR Playbook** (re:Work) — Google's internal best practices\n- **whatmatters.com** — John Doerr's OKR resource site\n- **High Output Management** by Andy Grove — The original MBO/OKR foundation\n- Various OKR consultancies: Quantive, Weekdone, Mooncamp, Perdoo\n","tags":{"latest":"1.0.1"},"stats":{"comments":0,"downloads":682,"installsAllTime":26,"installsCurrent":1,"stars":0,"versions":2},"createdAt":1772273832010,"updatedAt":1778491667475},"latestVersion":{"version":"1.0.1","createdAt":1772273958250,"changelog":"- Expanded and updated reference guides: cfrs.md, check-ins.md, templates.md, and visualization.md.\n- Improved coverage of Conversations, Feedback, Recognition (CFRs), weekly check-ins, OKR templates, and data visualization for OKRs.\n- Enhanced quick reference coaching prompts and workshop guidance to support OKR facilitation and review.","license":null},"metadata":null,"owner":{"handle":"npfaerber","userId":"s176sgjghrx7ngyf2vswm6qe0188459t","displayName":"npfaerber","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/258851131?v=4"},"moderation":null}