Inside the Labyrinth

Brought to you by Koan and There Be Giants, The Ultimate Guide to OKR Implementation is a great tool to use as you’re preparing to roll out OKRs to your organization for the first time.

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OKRs are a cultural change and require commitment, patience, and time to develop new habits. With our new partner, OKR Advisors, we’ve compiled a list of some of the most common stumbling blocks that we see among our customers, as well as ways to minimize or avoid them when you work to implement OKRs in your organization. 

There’s nothing wrong with setting goals around your KPIs, but OKRs need a different way of thinking. Instead of focusing on an individual metric and trying to improve it, the focus shifts to broader outcomes, solving problems, and truly pushing the company forward. KPIs are a measurable result, but they’re only a piece of a puzzle.

Adopting OKRs successfully requires answers for how to write, implement, and scale them. We've collected the questions we've heard the most during hundreds of OKR rollouts, and compiled answers to help you during your OKR journey.

As businesses contemplate their return to the shared office, many of the positive habits built up from remote work are well worth keeping around. Here are the top remote team practices that are worth maintaining for those teams returning to work in person.

With the major shift to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re seeing an increase in companies implementing surveillance and tracking software, believing that it would improve team productivity and efficiency while everyone was working from home. But ramping up the use of software to monitor what your employees do all day isn’t the answer.

We’ve been working hard on new product features to help you become more productive and efficient within Koan. Take a look at some of the recent improvements.