Strategy, Change & Organisational Capability
OKR Expert
Turn Strategic Intent into Focus, Alignment, Learning and Measurable Progress
Use Objectives and Key Results as a management discipline for focus, alignment and learning — not another annual-planning template.
Next steps
Let's discuss this programme
Bring this to your team, or join a public cohort. Ashish personally reviews every enquiry.
Key outcomes
- Distinguish Objectives from Key Results
- Differentiate outcomes, outputs and activities
- Write meaningful Objectives
- Design measurable Key Results
- Avoid vanity metrics
- Align OKRs without bureaucracy
How the day works and what's included
Methodology
- Case studies
- Simulations
- Role play
- Peer review
- Live-problem application
- Structured reflection
- Action planning
Practice laboratories
- Rewrite weak OKRs
- Convert activities into outcomes
- Team-alignment exercise
- Scoring / check-in simulation
- Build one complete usable OKR set
Reinforcement & transfer
- Pre-programme diagnostic or challenge framing
- Real-work application throughout the programme
- Participant action plan
- 24-hour first action
- 7-day tool or conversation applied
- 30-day review
- Accountability partner process
- Toolkit and templates retained for workplace use
- Build one complete usable OKR set for a real team or initiative
- Convert three activity-based goals into outcome Key Results
- Schedule the first OKR check-in within 7 days
- Run a 30-day review of OKR quality and progress
Agenda at a glance
Part 1 — Understand
Why OKRs exist; strategy, priorities and focus; Objectives vs Key Results; outputs vs outcomes; leading vs lagging indicators.
Part 2 — Design
Write strong Objectives; design measurable Key Results; quality-test OKRs; avoid vanity metrics; team vs organisational OKRs; align without excessive cascading.
Part 3 — Operate
Check-ins, scoring, review conversations, learning, adapting OKRs and avoiding performance-management distortion.
Part 4 — Apply
Diagnose poor examples, rewrite weak OKRs, design a real OKR set, peer critique and implementation planning.
Who it's for
Leaders, strategy professionals, PMO and transformation professionals, product leaders, people leaders, OKR champions and managers responsible for planning and performance.
- Leaders
- Strategy professionals
- PMO / transformation professionals
- Product leaders
- People leaders
- OKR champions
- Managers responsible for planning and performance
Seniority: Senior leaders, Executive, Mid managers, Mixed
Facilitator
Ashish Goyal
Ashish Goyal is an ICF-accredited executive coach, leadership trainer and transformation practitioner with more than 25 years of experience across banking, technology, government and global delivery. He combines commercial acumen, systems thinking, neuroscience-informed learning and human-centred leadership to help leaders and teams build practical, durable workplace capability.
Next steps
Let's discuss this programme
Bring this to your team, or join a public cohort. Ashish personally reviews every enquiry.