The OKRs Field Book

Take your OKRs coaching skills to the next level with this practical handbook. In The OKRs Field Book: A Step-by-Step Guide for Objectives and Key Results Coaches, Ben Lamorte, a seasoned coach and management science expert, provides a structured approach for implementing objectives and key results. This book provides tips and tools that enable you to coach your OKRs clients with confidence. Lamorte analyzes foundational questions that must be answered prior to deploying OKRs and the roles required to sustain an OKRs program. Packed with excerpts from actual OKRs coaching sessions, this step-by-step guide shines a light on the OKRs coaching process. You learn how to help your client refine key results that look like tasks into key results that reflect measurable outcomes. In addition to sample training workshop agendas and coaching emails, Lamorte introduces the first comprehensive list of OKRs coaching questions. The field book covers how to: * Structure an OKRs coaching engagement using a three-phased approach. * Avoid common pitfalls such as cascading OKRs based on the org chart. * Ensure your client asks the right questions at each step of the OKRs cycle. Perfect for external coaches and business mentors looking for a repeatable structure to help their clients succeed with OKRs, The OKRs Field Book is also an indispensable resource for internal coaches looking to support their organization's OKRs program.

Ben Lamorte is the founder of OKRs.com and The OKRs Coach Network. He has more OKRs coaching experience than anyone on the planet and is a mentor to dozens of OKRs coaches around the world. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: What Is OKRs Coaching? Why Is It So Important Now? 13 Current State of OKRs and Why Now is the Time to Develop OKRs Coaching Skills 14 Notes 25 Chapter 2: The OKRs Coaching Engagement: Phases, Duration, and Roles 29 Phases in an OKRs Coaching Engagement 31 Duration of an OKRs Coaching Engagement 33 Roles in an OKRs Coaching Engagement 35 Notes 43 Chapter 3: Playbook for Phase 1 - Deployment Coaching 45 Begin with "Why?" 47 Ten Universal Deployment Parameters 49 Notes 84 Chapter 4: Playbook for Phase 2 - Training 89 Begin with Introductions and Context 90 Theory and Application: The Two Parts of an OKRs Training Workshop 91 Notes 104 Chapter 5: Playbook for Phase 3 - Cycle Coaching 109 Step 1: Set and Align OKRs 111 Step 2: Check in and Monitor 123 Step 3: Reflect and Reset 127 OKRs Cycle Coaching Case Study 131 Notes 140 Epilogue 143 Appendix 157 Glossary 163 About the Contributors 169 Index 171