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 worldβs 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. ποΈ
KPIs vs. OKRs: What's the difference?
Happy Thursday!
We released a new episode of the Thinkydoers podcast this week answering one of the questions I get asked in almost every class I teach and leadership onboarding workshop I facilitate:
π€ What's the difference between KPIs and OKRs?
π Here's the episode via the Thinkydoers blog!
Giving one answer to that question isn't exactly possible, since different organizations use different definitions of "KPI," hire KPIs for different "jobs," and implement them differently: there is no one standard. My first question is always:
β How do you use KPIs today?
And then I can answer based on how we use KPIs and OKRs together in our Connected Strategic approach to aligned goal-setting and business impact quantification.
But since this is a podcast, not a two-way conversation, in this episode we'll skip right to the important words and meanings, and then walk through some examples using an easier to understand scenario around health and well-being measures.
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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 worldβs 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. ποΈ
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