Betterworks is a web-based tool we use to keep track of our "Objectives and Key Results" (OKRs).
If OKRs / Betterworks comes off a bit corporate, give it 30 minutes. When working within a large organization, OKRs are helpful in a few primary ways:
- Taking the time to concisely write your goals as a few Objectives, each with a few Key Results, helps each person clarify what's most important for them to work on.
- Because everyone at Fusion uses Betterworks, it's much easier to access the company's priorities, and see how everyone's priorities trickle down from them.
- Because everyone has written their goals in a common format, concise OKRs, it's much easier to understand these priorities.
But wait, what exactly are OKRs?
The Objective is what you want to accomplish — the aspirational goal. Each Objective has a few Key Results, which represent concrete steps to achieve the goal.
Here's an example:
Objective: Foster the technology team’s ability to be an enabler of the company’s product ambitions
Key Results:
- Solicit hack day themes from other departments in the company.
- Include one non-tech team member on each Hack Day team for our three remaining hack days in Q2.
- Identify and onboard five additional non-technology team members to our Trello and Github product workflow