Does it feel like everyone is working hard but not necessarily working towards the same goals? Are you tired of feeling stuck in a sea of unclear goals and misaligned priorities? Are you struggling to align and prioritize your team's efforts with the overall objectives of your organization? 

Is it difficult to align your team members and hold them accountable for commitments? In your hybrid work environment, do people say, "If I can see them working, how do I know they're doing the *right* work?" Do you find that important tasks aren't getting the attention they deserve, and progress is hard to track?

Do you need structure and focus to eliminate endless freeform check-in meetings? Do you want to create a high-performing team that's motivated? Do you find it challenging to reflect on accomplishments and plan for the future?

The Objectives & Key Results framework can help you develop the tools and mindset needed to build an organization that not only achieves its goals but does so in a way that embodies its values.


WITH "OKRS UNLEASHED" YOU'LL LEARN:


🎯 Crystal-Clear Goal-Setting: Eliminate confusion and uncertainty by defining measurable objectives that everyone in your organization can rally behind.


⚡️ Perfect Alignment: Unleash the power of teamwork by creating organization-wide objectives that cascade to every team and team member.


🏆 Performance Management & Growth Made Eas(ier): Track progress transparently, evaluate performance effectively, and make data-driven and human-centered adjustments to ensure continuous improvement.


💥 Skyrocket Employee Engagement: Empower your team members by showing them how their work directly contributes to the organization's goals, boosting motivation and job satisfaction.


🌟 Foster Collaboration & Communication: Break down silos and promote seamless cooperation among teams and departments, resulting in a cohesive and unstoppable organization.


🔥 Prioritize Like a Pro: Focus your resources and efforts on the most critical objectives, maximizing effort and driving incredible results.


🎢 Embrace Adaptability: Develop the agility to respond to changing circumstances, explore new opportunities, and stay ahead of the competition.


🔑 Accountability for All: Cultivate a culture where everyone takes responsibility for their goals and outcomes, and a collective sense of mission achievement.


🌍 Integrating Values: Embed anti-racism, inclusion, and equity objectives into your organization's DNA, living your commitment to a better world.


10 WAYS YOU'LL BENEFIT FROM USING THE OKR FRAMEWORK:


This powerful and flexible tool provides clarity and focus, connecting everyone's work to the organization's broader mission. With the OKR framework, your organization will:

  1. Define clear objectives that are relevant to the organization's strategy and goals.
  2. Track key results that are specific, measurable outcomes demonstrating progress towards achieving each objective.
  3. Cascade org-level priorities throughout the organization ensuring that every individual understands how their work contributes to achieving the overall objectives.
  4. Foster collaboration and transparency by openly tracking work in ways where employees can see how their efforts fit into the bigger picture and better understand their role in the organization's success.
  5. Stretch for success to encourage innovation and growth, and support a culture of continuous improvement and adaptability.
  6. Apply a values lens to every aspect of your organization’s operations.
  7. Utilize "how might we" and "what if" questions to encourage creative problem-solving and challenge traditional approaches.
  8. Identify and resolve long-standing challenges and increase visibility into team progress and the ability to address blockers early on.
  9. Guided conversation prompts for deeper and more meaningful discussions.
  10. Co-create a collective environment where team members align their goals with the organization's mission and vision.


This course goes beyond simply setting and achieving OKRs. It teaches you how to reflect on your work, integrate professional development resources, and adjust your objectives to align with evolving priorities. By asking yourself the right questions, you'll gain clarity on what you truly want and how to move forward effectively.

Don't waste another minute struggling with unclear expectations, lackluster engagement, meandering meetings, and missed opportunities. It's time to elevate your game with OKRs Unleashed!


WHO’S THIS COURSE FOR?

This course is for anyone seeking a tool that helps teams and organizations create alignment and transparency around commitments and ensures accountability.

  1. Business owners and entrepreneurs: Those looking to align their organization, set clear goals, and optimize their team's performance for greater success and profitability.
  2. Managers and team leaders: Professionals who want to improve their team's productivity, engagement, and collaboration, while fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
  3. Human Resources professionals: HR experts who aim to integrate effective goal-setting, performance management, and employee engagement strategies into their organization.
  4. Consultants and coaches: Professionals who advise organizations on performance improvement, goal-setting, and strategic planning, and who like to incorporate the OKR framework into their toolkit.
  5. Non-profit and social impact leaders: Leaders of organizations that seek to integrate social impact values, such as anti-racism, inclusion, and equity, into their overall strategy and performance measurement.
  6. Individuals interested in personal and professional development: Those who want to learn the OKR framework to improve their own goal-setting and prioritization skills, or to prepare for future leadership roles.


WHAT DO PARTICIPANTS RECEIVE?

Join course instructor Tim Cynova, sought-after educator and principal consultant at Work Shouldn't Suck, as he introduces and explores the content in this series of videos with downloadable transcripts.


WHY WORK SHOULDN'T SUCK?

Since 2013, the Work Shouldn't Suck team has been actively and deeply exploring, developing, and iterating on values-based approaches to reimagine "traditional" HR in ways that center and create truly diverse, inclusive, equitable, and anti-racist workplaces. We hold these values both personally and professionally, and they are embedded in all of our work.

Testimonials

“I highly recommend Tim’s course on the OKR goal setting process for any team looking to improve their performance and achieve their objectives. Using the OKR goal setting process has been valuable for my organization. During a time of significant change leading to lack of clarity for our organization’s mission, the OKR methodology helped us to create clear and measurable objectives that aligned with our overall organizational goals. With this practice we were able to clearly center our values and commitment to anti-racism and equity. The process has also improved communication and collaboration within our team, as everyone is now aware of each other's goals and can work together to achieve them. It created an opportunity for leadership, staff, and managers to be on the same page about team priorities, challenges, and opportunities improving overall clarity and employee engagement.”

— 
Julie Mae Lopez, Director of People & Culture, Yerba Buena Center For The Arts


"I've worked with Tim for five years and have watched as his curriculum on Strategic HR has dramatically evolved in response to changes in the culture-at-large as well as his own conscientious and rigorous process of deep learning. Through ongoing experimentation and exploration in the classroom and at the company he co-leads, Tim has iterated a process for helping organizations on an anti-racism, anti-oppression journey. His capacity to engage leaders in this complex and difficult work stems not only from his depth of knowledge and experience; among many positive qualities, Tim also brings kindness, openness, enthusiasm, and humor to everything he does."

— Diane Ragsdale, Director of Master of Arts in Creative Leadership, Minneapolis College of Art & Design & Independent Consultant 
"Tim cares. His desire, commitment, and rigor in designing and sustaining working environments where all staff is seen, valued and heard are real. He identifies his gaps and privileges as a cis-gendered white male — without the expectation of applause — to cultivate environments where the mental, physical, and emotional labor of illuminating inequities within organizations are not disproportionately burdened by those most oppressed. These qualities are required in organizational change work."

Lisa Yancey, Founder, Yancey Consulting; Co-Founder, The We’s Match; Co-Founder, SorsaMED

Instructor

Tim Cynova (he/him) is a highly sought-after educator and consultant who works at the intersection of human-centered organizational design, strategic HR, and co-creating inclusive, equitable, and anti-racist workplaces.

With faculty positions at Minneapolis College of Art & Design, the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, and The New School in New York City, as well as regular appearances at Indiana University, the University of Cincinnati, and American University in Washington, D.C., Tim's expertise is helping transform how people think about and approach workplace design.

Tim's not just an "armchair expert." For more than 20 years, he has held leadership roles in various industries and organizations, including most recently as Co-CEO & Chief Operating Officer of Fractured Atlas, where for more than a decade he played a pivotal role in growing the $30M non-profit FinTech company into becoming the largest association of independent artists in the U.S., while helping to craft and foster an anti-racist, anti-oppressive culture. He currently serves as a driving force behind Work Shouldn’t Suck, a consultancy revolutionizing HR and organizational design to create values-centered, thriving workplaces.

As a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and mediator, Tim possesses the necessary knowledge, skills, and care to support and guide meaningful change in companies across sectors. He brings his unique perspective as a former classical trombonist and musicologist, award-winning landscape photographer, and avid spectator of the Tour de France and lover of artisanal donuts to inform his approach to workplace design.

Join Tim's course and learn how to transform your workplace into a values-centered, thriving environment for everyone.

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