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Setting your personal OKR
- Decide on your mission for your quarter.
- Break mission down into objectives.
- Draft your Key Results. Key Results are specific, timely and measurable indicators of your progress.
- Consider the purpose of each KR.
- Find an accountability partner.
- Check in every 2–4 weeks with your partner.
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OKRs take big lofty goals, segment them into objectives, and then tie each of those objectives to actionable Key Results.
The Objective is the point on the horizon that you want to get to, and the Key Results are the measures that confirm to you that you’re making progress.
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Personal OKRs are for your personal life, individual OKRs are for performance tracking at work.
objective is what I want to have accomplished. The key results are how I’m going to get it done. The objectives are typically longer lived. They’re bold and aspirational. The key results are aggressive, but always measurable, time-bound, and limited in number</
... using the SMART criteria:
- Specific: make your goals clear and well-defined.
- Measurable: avoid any abstract notions – you should be able to tick “done” any goal you set as well as any step it involves
- Achievable: Make sure you have enough time and resources (money, free time, energy) to achieve it
- Relevant: your personal goals should be relevant to your life goals and feel rewarding
- Timed: set a deadline for achieving each goal and subgoal.