Why be an OKR Champion & improve OKR capability maturity ?? OKRs are simply transformational ! When deployed to its potential, it not only enables teams to contribute to organizational objectives directly, but also establishes broad alignment, accountability, autonomy, focus & transparency across the entire organization – No doubt, the research validates that OKR Champions are 4x more likely to high performance, earning its place in top quartiles across industries.
As powerful as this may sound, at The Brew we continue to see at least 2 prominent trends for organizations aspiring to go the OKR way: a) Far too many organization fail long before they get started; b) Secondly, there is a difference between being OKR Ready & being OKR Champion. These organizations fall short before ever reaching the level of maturity where their organization is fully aligned and transparent, accomplishing their goals with a collaborative, cross-functional approach. That’s what led to OKR Capability Maturity Index, objectively gauging across 10 elemental dimensions of OKR methodology, it helps leaders & organizations ascertain critical gaps to reach program maturity & fullest value unlocking of workplace potential.
Spread across 5 levels – Initial, Emerging, Developing, Proficient & Champion, The Brew’s OKR Capability Maturity Index, enables potential high performing & OKR aspirational organizations & their Leadership with the following:
- Uniquely gauges organizations across 10 elemental dimensions (Goal Development, Focus & Commitment, Measurement Rigor, Distributed Accountability, Distributed Ownership etc.) of OKR methodology;
- Helps business leaders & organizations ascertain the progressive stages, both the organization and team will go through to reach program maturity;
- Realizes the fullest potential of the transformational exercise.
- Along with enabling organizations to ascertain their current program stage, the index helps with inputs and ‘must haves’ for a plan of upward progression.
To dig deeper on how the capability maturity gets ascertained & what does it constitute of, head on to The Brew, for a detailed in-depth read on methodology of OKR Capability Maturity Index
The Brew’s OKR Capability Maturity Model helps Organizations with the following:
- Ascertain the current program maturity stage across 10 elemental dimensions of OKR methodology – At Aggregate level & Individual Level, this enables to understand the under-developed elements, basis current OKR capability maturity score
- Ascertain the capability maturity path for upward progression to next level (at Aggregate Level & at Individual Element Level)
- Overall OKR capability maturity score helping us understand the overall maturity
- Optimal Goal Strategy for the current stage (Roofshots – Moonshots – Continuous)
About OKRs:
OKRs are one of the most powerful goal alignment technique that we have come across. The operative word here is goal alignment – the framework gives equal measure of power & autonomy to all the stakeholders – The Organization decides the ‘Why’, Leadership decides the ‘What’ & Operational Teams decide the ‘How’. This flywheel, if deployed properly, enables empowerment, accountability, autonomy & alignment. For in-depth insights & comprehensive guides about OKRs – Check out the following detailed reads, enriched with nuances & learnings from actual deployment across high growth workplaces: A 6 part comprehensive OKR Manual on demystifying OKRs, The Ultimate OKR Checklist & Key Lessons learned from OKR Case Studies.
About The Brew:
The Brew, enables high impact solutions on levers of human capital, enhancing organizational performance – capability – effectiveness yield, basing to build high performance teams & sustainable high impact workplaces, with ultimate objective to create competitive advantages. Be it building high performing workplaces, or high potential teams, improving organizational effectiveness, or organizational trust, engagement, embedded-ness, culture or to improve business outcomes, human capital ROI – we leverage our demonstrated competence in these outcomes to transform organization. Check out The Brew & The Brew Store for further info.
Co-Founder, Funded Startup in Healthcare domain (transitioned from OKR Capability Maturity 2 to 3 in July, 2020) –
Our OKRs program, deployed using The Brew’s OKR Capability Maturity Index has helped our teams build focus on priority of key practices, resulting in alignment to right goals and ultimately driven growth. OKR Capability Maturity Index is incredibly powerful & impactful, serving a fantastic guidebook for organizations to drive high employee engagement & high business performance
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COO, (transition work in progress from OKR Capability Maturity level 3 to 4) –
Before scaling up OKR program for several hundred employees, we were too focused on developing & setting goals (we realized this was most important, but not the only one, as we initially thought to be – this realization happened after we underwent OKR Capability Maturity Index). In hindsight, just this would not have added substantial quantum of value (as present) – Now, our OKR program has a scalable & definite road-map to develop robust practices – the OKR Capability Maturity Index has been enlightening. With its deep & definite objectivity on developing OKR fundamentals, the OKR deployment for us now is game changing.
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Chief Growth Officer, (Perfecting OKR Capability Maturity Level 3, aspiring for Level 4 by 2020 end) –
OKR Capability Maturity Index is extremely value adding & instantly impactful with its objectivity & validated research on OKR process practices to be built. It has enabled us to bring alignment and transparency to the business. And what’s more – we can now practice OKRs as a science (with high specificity & measurability), deliberating with the art & nature of our organization. The team at The Brew has been a great partner in helping us successfully reap the benefits of OKR framework in a scientific manner, realizing high performance & high value.
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Head, Strategic Initiatives (Leading OKR Capability Maturity level from 3 to 4, On our way from high growth to high performance firm) –
We began by building a complete OKR playbook suiting our organization, enabling teams to align around OKRs. When it was time to roll out OKRs to everyone in the company, we invested in to best of the OKR tools, with best of the OKR coaches. However, post implementing OKRs, though our performances improved, they were no where close to accomplishments of similar OKR practicing organizations (this reflection lead to OKR Capability Maturity Index). Post experiencing The Brew’s tool, we realized the transformational nature of OKR – when we could objectively gauge different elements it measures, v/s. our company performance v/s. elemental maturity of each element.
Huge Realization: Being OKR ready & being OKR champion are 2 different things, and there is a whole lot of journey between them that needs to be traversed.
As objective as it can get, my team & I, accountable for driving strategic initiatives are immensely happy with OKR Capability Maturity Index, with its scientific & objective approach, serving as guidebook for scaling the OKR practices to next level. Now we are definitely confident of breaching the performance standards of earlier benchmarked firms and firmly placed to be on high performance growth trajectory ultimately
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