3 Reasons To Hire An OKR Consultant For OKR Training
Q1 is always an exciting time for OKR programs. Whether your organization is currently building an OKR program from scratch or your company has been doing OKRs for a few quarters – I am sure you’ve been asking yourself some crucial and significant questions.
Questions like “Are we doing things the right way?”, “Could we improve the way we are adopting OKR?”, “Are we missing anything from the way we are currently doing things?” While there are plenty of online resources to help build your OKR program, here are 3 reasons to seek External OKR Training:
1. Create Excitement
The #1 underrated outcome from an external OKR training is the ability to create excitement for the team. Why is this important? Excitement drives adoption. Excitement enables buy-in. Excitement makes people better internalize their own goals and see the connection to the big picture.
A good external OKR trainer will not only focus on OKR education, but will also connect the OKR dots with great storytelling, personal examples, and the transformation of companies that have successfully implemented OKR and the difference it has made both for the company and individual employees.
2. Build Confidence
You don’t know what you don’t know. There are plenty of resources online to build a great program, but online resources can only take you so far.
In this weeks episode of the OKRs Q&A Podcast with Billy Pearson, Marketing Manager & OKR Specialist at Robin.jobs, Billy discussed how one of the main benefits he saw from external OKR training was how Atruity helped build confidence around OKRs within his organization. Billy Pearson helped build Robin.Job’s OKR program from the ground up, relying heavily on resources from Google. When he came across Atruity’s Consulting Offer in the Atruity Newsletter, it sparked his interest.
While Robin had done a great job adopting OKR, there were several internal questions that Billy still needed answers on like “How to balance OKR knowledge with developing role-based skill sets?” and “Does everyone have the right amount of knowledge to set and manage their OKRs?”
An external workshop helped to overcome these concerns, create confidence for all participants around setting the right OKRs and helped shift the mindset from “Are we doing it correctly?” to “What do we need to do now to get there.”
3. Receive Validation
Who watches the watchers? Along with building confidence, an external OKR training provides the opportunity to validate what has been currently done internally. They also provide necessary support to OKR program managers who have not had any external support so far.
They also help to answer the question “Are we on the right track” while validating the existing framework and giving important suggestions and support to the ongoing adoption.
From an investment perspective, external OKR training protects the time, money, and resources invested into an OKR program by affirming what has been done previously and setting an optimal path forward for the company.
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