The following blog is reposted from our friends at Wizikey, who hosted an AMA with our CEO, Matt Tucker, about managing OKRs with remote teams.
OKRs Management During Coronavirus times
Objective and Key results – OKRs are so simple that it can be very difficult for an organization to adopt. Luckily, thanks to my discussions with Aabhinna, we were able to introduce OKRs in goals planning when Wizikey was just a 3-people team in 2019.
In our last 1 year of following OKRs, we have learnt a lot and of course, it still is tough to orient 30+ Wizards (Wizikey employees) that we have now.
And then Coronavirus hit all of us. All the planning and management was gone for a toss. Along with my the core team, we were having discussions on how to survive the period – forget about planning OKRs.
However, after 2 weeks of remote working and managing chaos, we decided we needed to revisit OKRs. We decided to plan for 2 weeks and not even a month as things are changing so fast. There were dozens of questions that were lingering in our heads as we decided to plan OKRs for these turbulent times.
Looking at my friends’ tweets and discussions, I realise that this is not just Wizikey’s problems but probably a lot of other businesses are going through.
This gave me the idea to go back to Matt at KOAN, who had helped me set up OKR last year. And Matt accepted to do the session as well. (Super fast response!)
Yesterday, we did the session with 10 businesses. Here is the recording of the session, that happened with Matt on managing OKRs with remote teams around coronavirus times.
And these are my top learnings from the session as a founder of a startup
Steps recommended during crisis times like #Coronavirus
Some of the questions that were answered – and you may watch the video for answers:
Books recommended during the session
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