OKR Consulting from People Stretch Solutions
Your strategy is solid, but are your people and teams aligned to properly execute? Can you track progress transparently, and coach people when they need it? Can you course-correct when needed based on accountability and trust?
Growth can only happen if your entire team is aligned around a clear strategy and can balance between day-to-day operations with strategic work. The answer is a healthy, well-established OKR program, and People Stretch is here to help. We’ve provided OKR consulting over the last 7 years, creating over $1B in stakeholder value.
Our OKR Consulting Approach
Our focus is to develop your organization’s OKR capabilities so that you can execute on your strategic objectives over and over. We do this by:
- Ensuring the strategic, financial, and operational plans have the level of detail needed for proper execution
- Facilitating conversations from the C-Suite through operational teams that get people aligned and focused so they can write effective OKRs
- Training and coaching OKR Champions to maintain a healthy program
- Providing management and champions the skills they need to run effective OKR meetings and 1:1 coaching sessions
- Helping implement OKR tracking software such as Betterworks and Microsoft Viva Goals
Are you ready to scale? Call to speak with one of our expert OKR Consultants.
(703) 348-6451
Our OKR Consulting Services
Your business is unique, so we help fit OKR best practices into your culture, communication styles, structure, and operations. One client with over 10,000 employees commented that “People Stretch has a great understanding of how to tailor OKR programs to a specific business. They can get you where you need to be faster and with less friction.” We use a managed service model to engage with clients by:
- Working hands-on with the C-Suite and other top leaders to advise how to set L1 OKRs
- Engaging with the leaders in the next two levels down, we make sure OKRs are clear, aligned with strategy, and will motivate the team
- Facilitating conversations with cross-functional teams working on the projects associated with our clients most ambitious goals
- Establishing and training the initial cohort of OKR Champions, giving them the tools needed to have more effective meetings
- Reinforcing best practices in the use of our clients’ chosen OKR tracking tools
We Offer OKR Solutions in Three Areas
OKR Implementation and Coaching
OKR Architecture and Rationalization
OKR Adoption and Reinforcement
Achieve Alignment with People Stretch Solutions
Our OKR Consultants work to achieve alignment from your C-Suite through to front line teams. Your mission, vision, and strategy needs to flow through your organization without friction, and we help you get there by facilitating the conversations that need to happen during the planning stages of the each OKR cycle. Our consultants are master coaches: your investment with People Stretch returns a capability that is crucial for success.
Introducing OKR Consulting as a Managed Service
Reach your Goals with a Proven System for Complete OKR Adoption
"Vision without execution is just hallucination"
After 70+ OKR engagements with enterprise companies, we developed a system that gets our clients from OKR rookies to seasoned practitioners. It’s a two-year journey that gives you access to our expert team and solidifies the OKR framework as not just a tool or process, but as part of your organization’s DNA: full alignment, great accountability, clear communication, and best of all – objectives achieved. Here’s what you get:
Transformative Expertise: We bring a wealth of experience across diverse industries, empowering you with the knowledge needed to seamlessly integrate OKRs into your business strategy.
Tailored Approach: We know that each organization is unique. Our consultants work closely with you to implement OKRs in a way that aligns with your specific goals, challenges, and company culture.
End-to-End Support: From initial assessment to ongoing fine-tuning, our managed service covers 8 full OKR cycles. We’re your partners at every step, ensuring you extract maximum value from your OKR journey.
Accelerated Results: Our proven methodologies and best practices fast-track your progress. You can expect remarkable improvements in productivity, focus, and collaboration within a shorter time frame than traditional approaches.
Change Management Guidance: Introducing OKRs involves a significant cultural shift. Our change management expertise helps you navigate challenges, ensuring a smooth transition and enthusiastic buy-in from your teams.
OKR Software Implementation
OKR tracking systems can provide a real-time view into program health and progress toward objectives, but people often make the false assumption that simply using software will give them an effective program. OKR programs require a change in communication, accountability, and a refocus on what’s strategically important – in short, many companies actually need consultants skilled in both OKRs as well as change management to truly get the value from their investment.
We work with leading OKR software companies like Betterworks, Microsoft Viva Goals, and Quantive and help establish best practices in their use. Our services complement the training and jumpstart programs that these vendors provide with a focus on best practices adoption, and the excitement that comes from celebrating wins around shared goals.
Top 7 OKR Program Challenges and how our OKR Consultants Solve Them
- C-Suite Misalignment - Sometimes, even the people at the top aren’t playing from the same sheet of music. That can make performance improvements through the OKR framework nearly impossible. We facilitate the right conversations at the top, so that the C-team can move forward with confidence.
- OKR Writing - This only happens 4 times a year and can compete with the tactical tasks that comprise day-to-day operations. We help train and coach leaders and managers on the best practices of OKR Writing. You can drop-in to one of our online OKR writing workshops by joining our mailing list.
- Aligning L2 - L4 Goals - Just because the C-team is set on OKRs, doesn’t mean they are properly flowing down through the organization. If the time and effort isn’t made to align L1 - L4 goals, there’s often a disconnect between what divisions are doing vs. what must be done to reach strategic objectives. We help facilitate those meaningful and necessary conversations.
- OKR Software Adoption - Getting tools like Microsoft Viva or Betterworks installed is basically starting the car for a cross-country roadtrip - it’s just the beginning. Jumpstart programs are valuable, but aren’t enough to get your team fully up and running on a healthy OKR program. We help teams consistently use these tools in the right way so that there’s transparency and accountability through the whole program.
- All-in on OKRs vs. Checking the OKR box - It’s inevitable that some people on your team - maybe even most at the start - aren’t fully bought-in to the idea that OKRs are the key to performance improvement. Perhaps they think it’s a fad that will fade, even if the C-suite is trumpeting it today. Simply put, we guide your leaders and teams through a process that shows them the value of OKR, keeps them excited about programs, and give people the skills they need to maintain healthy programs. That’s how to get people fully-enrolled and performing at a high level.
- Making the Most of Meetings - team shares, 1:1 meetings, and retrospectives - they are all opportunities for meaningful collaboration, coaching, transparency, and accountability. But not all managers know how to run effective meetings. We give leaders the tools to get better performance by running better meetings.
- Cross-functional Collaboration - Your most ambitious goals require inter-departmental collaboration and the sharing of resources. We help ensure that the right conversations are made to alignment department leads on OKRs and what teams need to do together to make them happen.
If you have any questions, order a free conversation with our consultant.
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