The OKR Podcast
WorkBoard
The OKR podcast is a podcast for leaders who want to unlock their full organization's growth potential, leveraging the OKR technique and other cutting-edge strategies.While many recognize the power of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to accelerate outcomes and foster a growth and outcomes culture, there is a dearth of information on how to do them well and reap their full benefit. That’s where this podcast comes in! We’ll help you learn to align and measure results pervasively, manage fast to grow fast, and, most importantly, achieve the powerful objectives you’ve identified. Episodes will feature topics such as: establishing executive OKRs, team alignment, results accountability, data-driven decision making, growth strategy, leading for speed, and other topics.To learn more about OKRs please visit - https://www.workboard.com
Episodes
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Nov 8, 2022 • 42min
OKRs for Agile, Outcome-Focused Organizations
Jeff Gothelf, business agility and OKR framework expert, organizational designer, author and speaker, sits down with Deidre to share his unique approach to cultivating a product-focused mindset across large, complex enterprise organizations. Jeff uncovers how agile organizations that manage to outcomes are fundamentally in opposition to legacy, command and control leadership practices - and more importantly, how leaders can empower their people with the right framework for autonomy, discovery, and learning.Jeff’s Recommended Reads:Jeff Gothelf.com - BlogSense and Respond - Jeff Gothelf & Josh SeidenContinuing Discovery Habits - Theresa TorezLean UX - Jeff Gothelf & Josh Seiden
Oct 13, 2022 • 46min
Driving agile transformation in a self-directed culture at IBM
Anthony Coppedge, Principal Agile Digital Sales Global Transformation Lead at IBM, sits down with Deidre to share how he introduced OKRs across Sales and Digital Marketing to ensure the creation of customer value is the focus of every employee in the org, and why a self-directed culture is at the core of successful business transformations. Running his business on fact-based data enables Anthony to validate business goals, navigate with headlights, and inspire deep trust amongst his people.
Aug 25, 2022 • 33min
Innovating & Mobilizing Faster at AstraZeneca
Cindy Hoots, CIO at AstraZeneca sits down with Deidre to share her unique perspective on driving innovation at speed and scale. Cindy shares the importance of operationalizing the strategy and how it helped get everyone aligned and focused on outcomes.
Jul 15, 2022 • 39min
Why do OKRs fail?
Samira Moenpour, a customer success lead at Workboard and an OKR coach for nearly seven years, dives into why OKRs often miss the mark. She identifies five key pitfalls that lead to failure and stresses the need for clarity and engagement. Skepticism surrounding OKRs can be overcome by integrating them into team dialogues. Samira emphasizes continuous growth and cross-functional collaboration as vital components for success, advocating for alignment among teams to navigate challenges and achieve meaningful outcomes.
Jun 29, 2022 • 28min
The Future of Work: Practical Steps for Leaders to Take Now
Cathy Benko, Former Vice-Chair and Managing Partner at Deloitte, shares her wisdom on the implications of the way we work and the steps leaders, CEOs, CIOs, and CHROs can take to prepare themselves and their organizations for a thriving and more resilient future.
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Jun 7, 2022 • 21min
Bringing Strategy to Life with OKRs at Cisco
This week, Deidre welcomes Vikas Butaney, Chief Product Officer and GM at Cisco. Vikas shares how Cisco implemented OKRs, the power of every employee being aligned on the mission, and advice for new business leaders who need to connect distributed teams.
May 31, 2022 • 29min
How Zendesk uses OKRs to Scale Efficiently
Zendesk CIO Colleen Berbue says "it's just how we run the business" as she shares how OKRs flow into WorkBoard Biz Reviews and they ensure every major initiative has an OKR that clearly aligns to the company objectives. Teams, time, and effort align and they're building stronger accountability muscles as they grow from 6k people to 10k.
May 24, 2022 • 53min
OKRs at Google
Margo Georgiadis, former president of the Americas at Google for 8 years, leads a master class for executives on why the choice of measures is really a strategic decision, and how clarity and alignment on the right measures are growth fundamentals. Her examples from leading Google's ad business and YouTube are priceless and her experience bringing OKRs to Ancestry.com as CEO and to 40-person startups is equally insightful.
Feb 3, 2022 • 24min
Less Omniscience, More Agility and Compassion
Tina Murphy, President of GHX, joins Deidre for a discussion on the leadership lessons of 2021. She shares how GHX reset its operating rhythm from annual plans and QBRs to iterative OKRs and MBRs, and the power of purpose to galvanize greatness.
Jan 20, 2022 • 32min
Momentum in a Messy World
Hootsuite CEO Tom Keiser joins Deidre for a CEO to CEO chat on cohesion in chaos, the changing nature of connection and community, and leading the way forward in transformative times. Tom and Deidre first met when he was COO at Zendesk launching their OKR program on WorkBoard several years ago, and he brought it with him as he took the helm as CEO at Hootsuite.
