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Rebelutionary Leadership & Career Fulfillment for Thinkydoers

Hosted by Sara Lobkovich

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. 🏍️

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🎉 Get a jump on Q2 with early-bird access to the No-BS OKRs Workbook!

Dear Reader, Today’s the day: an early-bird version of the No-BS OKRs Workbook is finally available! Learn practices to create and achieve effective, useful, efficient Objectives and Key Results in a matter of hours, not days or weeks! The No-BS OKRs Workbook is a 52-page PDF workbook that serves as a short, sweet, how-to guide for creating No-BS OKRs. It provides all of the essential basics to help you get started with No-BS OKRs including key words and meanings, step-by-step how-to’s, and...

13 days ago • 1 min read

Hey Reader, I'm working hard to drum up an awesome cohort for the No-BS OKRs session that's now open, and things are off to a good start! I have heard from more folks than usual this time around about barriers to participation in this cohort, and the last thing I want is for barriers to stop you -- the whole point of moving No-BS OKRs to my own platform is to reduce barriers. So let's cut to the chase: 🏃 If you'd like to participate but can't join live, this cohort is able to be completed...

about 1 month ago • 2 min read

Hey Reader, Feedback on the original No-BS OKRs workshop has yielded an unexpected recurring theme: "People who know nothing about OKRs need to hear about this." It got me to thinking about the questions friends and family ask, curiously, as they've watched my career evolve. The two most frequent are some variation of: "WTF are OKRs?" and "Why the *bleep* are you so far down this rabbithole?" If you're reading this, you're probably already down the rabbithole with me 😂 ... But I decided this...

about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Hey Reader, We have a huge month here at RCCO: 🎯 We're officially into Q2 reset season (with some coaching and training time still available if you need help); ✨ My newly updated No-BS OKRs Workshop is launching next week in a hybrid format -- with asynchronous self-paced content to guide you through your OKR reset (or OKR creation) in one week or less, AND live sessions for support and practice during one of the key Reset weeks for many organizations: the week of March 18th;🎉 And, I'm doing...

about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Happy Friday Reader, Today's Goal Friday focused on Key Results, and part of what I shared are two "mad libs" style formulas I find helpful when people are learning how to create Key Results. Are they the only valid way to create Key Results? ABSOLUTELY not. If we keep these structures and building blocks in mind when creating Key Results, are we more likely to create objectively measurable outcome and progress Key Results -- the kind that can be so helpful for organizations trying to change,...

2 months ago • 1 min read

Hi Reader, and happy Friday! I just sent his note to our Goal Fridays participants in prep for our first session about Key Results next week, but it's too helpful not to share more broadly. An aside: If you'd like to join the waitlist for the next cohort of Goal Fridays, my experiment in community with other goal-focused folks, click this link and I'll note your interest. Join the Goal Fridays waitlist I've been at this awhile, and I know one thing to be true: It's way harder to create Key...

2 months ago • 2 min read
On a blue background, with graphical white circles, the copy: It's (almost) Q2 already / Where are your OKRs? (with a thinking-face emoji)

Happy Friday Reader, I anticipate my open rate on this email will be seriously low given that subject line but I'm going to let it rip anyway, since it's painfully true. It's the second week of February, so you would think that most organizations have done their annual planning and are up and working and have little need of support from their OKR coach. And you would be wrong. 😂 If my conversations this week are any indication, what actually happens in a lot of organizations this time of year...

3 months ago • 2 min read

Hi Reader! What's your plan for Thursday? Tickets are still available for the OKR Forum 2024, a gathering of OKR Practitioners from global brands, including Cindy White, the leader of Pearson's OKR Center of Excellence speaking about Pearson's three-year journey with OKRs. Cindy is a remarkable change leader within Pearson -- she leads a highly skilled OKR COE that sits across multiple organizations within Pearson, a large education enterprise. I have the privilege of asking the questions for...

3 months ago • 1 min read

Hi Reader, I was teaching another No BS OKRs cohort this week and reflecting: one of my favorite parts of the whole thing is the independent working time. During the workshop, I introduce an exercise, then turn everybody loose for their own drafting time; we reconvene, and the day is done. It feels weird to host a course and then not teach ... but the feedback on those sections is consistently high. People often share that they appreciate the time the class gives them to think. For awhile,...

3 months ago • 1 min read

Happy Friday, all! I'm finally back to the home office from Canada after a really delightful leadership team offsite for a client that turned into a travel delay saga. There are few places I'd be more delighted to spend much of two days unexpectedly stuck in airports than Canada -- not only did I meet some lovely fellow travelers along the waits; I also had an incredible Malaysian meal for dinner during my unexpected overnight in Vancouver. (The extra road time also gave me some uninterrupted...

3 months ago • 3 min read
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