I help changemaker leaders, teams, and other Thinkydoers understand their strengths, increase their quantifiable impact, and become fulfilled in their careers (without masking or mind-reading). My "how?" Accessible, efficient approaches to strategy creation, alignment, and operationalizing for goal achievement, with a special focus on Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). The approaches I coach and teach today build on well-honed expertise leading adult learning, instructional design, marketing, creative strategy and strategic operations at some of the world’s largest enterprises, and in public sector and political roles. In my individual coaching work via Thinkydoers, I help people who are "wired differently" (or otherwise "not from Leadership Central Casting") build authentic, rewarding careers as the leaders of change our world needs today. When not working with Red Currant Collective, my "other life" is in professional motorcycle racing. 🏍️
A peek behind the scenes of an enterprise OKR adoption at scale💡
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Hi Reader, Whoo boy friends it's been a whirlwind over here so buckle up and let's dive in. 👉 I'd love your answer on this LinkedIn poll: What is the biggest barrier that slows progress toward achieving your strategy? 👉 Need a metric to base a strategy achievement leading indicator key result on? I've got you! v2 of our Strategy Achievement Score quiz is now live. If you finish the quiz and share your email at the end, you'll get an actual numerical score that you can use as a KPI or as the basis of a key result, then I'll follow up by email with a few "quick wins" to help you improve your score quickly. 👉 OKR Mentors just released a case study featuring Cindy White, the leader of the Pearson OKR Center of Excellence and Pearson's three year (and counting) journey with OKR adoption at scale. My confidentiality obligations mean I rarely get to talk about my enterprise work. I can say that it was an absolute privilege to moderate Cindy's session, and have a chance to highlight her, her team, Pearson's leadership, and their collective dedication to learning and improving with OKRs on a global stage. Check out the case study on OKR Mentors website. And last... it's that time of year again...My availability for strategic services is now open! If you may need support for your upcoming planning cycles, let me know?
Answering that question will not put you on a lead nurture or email list or anything like that. So why am I asking? For a bunch of reasons, I'm considering structuring my enterprise deals differently this year, to be able to say "yes" to more opportunities that pop up during Q4/Q1. Having an idea of potential demand will help me make those design decisions, and, make a call about how much of my time to reserve for non-enterprise engagements. Next week, we'll have a fun new Thinkydoers episode live with guest Sally Ivester, a ... ahem ... slightly more fresh-faced than me big tech chief of staff. Sally has a passion for helping individual contributors (including earlier-career staffers) learn skills that support career successfulness. I'll also share some highlights from the Coaching No-BS OKRs course that's running live this week and next week. (If you missed out, and would like to know when I offer the next cohort, click here and I'll keep you posted!) This week's P.S. is silly, not poignant. I use software to find automatic highlights in my video recordings and it suggested this clip from the first day of coach training... and who am I to argue?! 🤣 |
No-BS OKRs + Career Fulfillment for Rebelutionary Leaders and Thinkydoers
I help changemaker leaders, teams, and other Thinkydoers understand their strengths, increase their quantifiable impact, and become fulfilled in their careers (without masking or mind-reading). My "how?" Accessible, efficient approaches to strategy creation, alignment, and operationalizing for goal achievement, with a special focus on Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). The approaches I coach and teach today build on well-honed expertise leading adult learning, instructional design, marketing, creative strategy and strategic operations at some of the world’s largest enterprises, and in public sector and political roles. In my individual coaching work via Thinkydoers, I help people who are "wired differently" (or otherwise "not from Leadership Central Casting") build authentic, rewarding careers as the leaders of change our world needs today. When not working with Red Currant Collective, my "other life" is in professional motorcycle racing. 🏍️
Hi Reader, THANK YOU for clicking through to the Reader Survey! I really appreciate you sharing your thoughts -- the feedback I'm getting is so fascinating to me that after I wrap it up next week I'll share a few highlights. I don't know about you, but this week after Labor Day here in the US always flies by like a blink. And when I get back to work on this upcoming Monday, I get my last hurrah on 2024 as we move into the Q3/Q4 learning review and reset. Typically we do our learning review...
Hi Reader, I looked at the calendar last week and realized: August 15th -- the date I open my books to corporate clients in preparation for annual reset season -- is literally right around the corner. So before I re-open to large orgs, I want to get ✨as many smaller clients as possible✨ on the books – so am running a Summer Sale to help make that possible! Today's drop is the big new news: I am super excited to share my Get Started With No-BS OKRs course with you... for only $49 (a $50...
Hi Reader, Yesterday, I (nearly) finished up my revisions for my book and shipped it back to my editor. I have one chapter left to write, a glossary to finish, and then it's into final edit! So what better day than today to share the cover art with you: In 2021 I started writing down my practices around creating No-BS Objectives and Key Results so that I could more systematically iterate, improve, and teach them to others. That labor -- and a lot of hyperfocus, sweat, tears, and support from...