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
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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.
Oct 12, 2021 • 41min
Iterable Captures the Energy of Alignment to Fuel its Exponential Growth
Iterable's Chief Operating Officer, Jeff Samuels, and Chief of Staff, Nicole Watkins, join Deidre Paknad in this week's OKR Podcast to share how they are maximizing inflection points at their rapidly scaling company by accelerating lateral and vertical alignment and learning with OKRs and WorkBoard. For Iterable, using the OKR framework has had a significant impact on their ability to operationalize their strategy by providing each team with transparency, a real purpose, and meaning in their everyday work.
Aug 24, 2021 • 41min
The Magic of Momentum
3M Automotive & Aerospace Division president Steve Shafer shares his observations on the potency of momentum to accelerate transformation and outcomes. It's hard to define, obvious when you see and when you don't have it -- but it's what winning teams have in common. Hear how Steve uses OKRs and a growth mindset to amplify his organization's best possible outcomes.
Jun 30, 2021 • 25min
The 411 on Product & Engineering OKRs
Sameera Moinpour, VP - Strategic Services and Susan Mallaney, Manager - Strategic Services have coached thousands of product and engineering teams to great OKRs. In this podcast, they discuss common OKR questions, concerns, learnings and aha's, across many product and engineering organizations.
May 19, 2021 • 34min
Aligning Fast and Deep to Drive Results w/ Denise Kanfield
Denise Kanfield drives the OKR and results program at Cisco. Before that, she was a business agility and transformation leader at Thomson Reuters for three years. Denise has done OKRs at three different companies, and she intentionally sought out a role to lead OKRs and results management. We sat down with her to tap the breadth and depth of her knowledge in the OKR space.
Apr 27, 2021 • 24min
The Interplay of Agile, OKRs and Design Thinking
I first met Rob when he was working with Cisco on their move to agile and I was working with them on the move to OKRs — peanut butter and chocolate! We discuss how strategy and execution improve and accelerate with these frameworks.
Apr 8, 2021 • 34min
Learning is Leading
Erin talks about alignment and measurement muscle, how shared OKRs drive the One Microsoft vision, and why learning is the key to, well, everything.
