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You are running behind a deadline and your manager wants the project outcome as soon as possible. You are going to have to stay for longer hours at work and complete the project. There’s a huge pressure and you can hardly focus on the project.
How could you have handled this situation better? This is one of the most common challenges faced in today’s corporate.
One can think of various solutions that can fix this issue for time being but how can you, as a manager, help your employees in a long run? By setting effective goals.
There are many approaches to setting goals for employees but one of the most recommended methodologies is the OKR approach. OKRs are a really great way of getting your team on track and aligning the work that they do with the organization’s overall objectives and helping them complete these goals on time. It is recommended that you set OKRs at your team level and not as individual OKRs.
Sometimes, using the OKR methodology just isn’t enough. Despite being one of the most effective ways to set goals and making them happen, OKRs require time and effort to be set, aligned and monitored. It is too much effort to do it all manually. This is where you digitize the whole process. Introduce an OKR software at your workplace. If you are still hesitant of introducing OKRs to your employees, this article is for you.
Here’s a list of benefits of using an OKR software:
Assigning goals is the basic functionality to look for in any goal setting software. This functionality allows managers to assign a goal to their direct reports without directly involving themselves into the goal. This functionality also allows managers to keep track of the progress that their direct reports make.
Assignment makes it easy for managers to assign goals to their direct reports without having to set up a formal meeting to do so.
We all have those days when we have too much on our plates and do not know where to start. Defining Objectives and Key Results helps you understand which tasks hold more importance and which ones can be pushed behind. Using an OKR software to do this can make the whole process easier and interesting. They help your employees understand their goals better and give them a sense of direction. It is easier to accomplish goals when they are specific and easy to understand.
One of the vital parts of employee goal setting is tracking their progress and actively help them with their goals. OKR software allows you to track employee progress on goals effectively by sending out notification to goal assigners each time the someone checks in on the goal and giving the goal assigners the ability to comment on each goal check-in.
The ability to comment on goals allows both managers and employees to have a discussion about the goal and the progress that is being made. Commenting is an easy way to foster communication without having to formalize it.
This is one of the very important aspects of using an OKR software at workplace. Most employees usually have one question: ‘What difference does my contribution make to the organization’. With an OKR software, you can align individual goals with company goals and employees can easily understand how their contribution matters to the organization.
They can also check their progress and see how their work has contributed in organizational success.
Company and team OKRs are usually visible to everyone when you use an OKR software. This allows the employees to gain an understanding of what their coworkers are working on and how they can contribute to accomplishing company goals as a team. This visibility of team OKRs to each other allows team members to support each other and complete their individual goals too.
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