Leading with objectives & key results

Shaping your own management environment

• Leadership principles: Goals and values that are important to you.
• Requirements of your teams, employees, superiors and other people.
• Employee constellation: types and distribution of roles in your team.
• Motivational psychology at intrinsic, extrinsic, individual and team level.
• Using objectives and key results to provide orientation, set priorities, convey meaning and values.

Using the advantages of objectives and key results

• Focus on shared vision, purpose, values and strategies.
• Promote team self-responsibility, co-creation and collaboration.
• What are conceivable objectives? What are meaningful key results?
• Typical situations for the use of Objectives and Key Results.
• Optimal procedure for defining objectives and key results.
• Retrospective: reflection, error culture, feedback and further development.

Overcoming difficulties with objectives and key results

• Sensible definition of target periods, cycles, stages and interim targets.
• Common mistakes in the formulation of objectives and key results.
• Recognize and take into account conflicting objectives and key results of other teams.
• Dealing with objections when defining the objectives and key results.
• Avoid the occurrence of impediments, obstacles and obstructions.

Supporting the implementation of objectives and key results

• Teams as self-responsible opportunity and risk managers for their objectives and key results.
• Support the implementation of the objectives and key results.
• Correct handling of external influences and changes in framework conditions.
• Ensure the achievement of objectives and key results.
• Methods for linking objectives and key results with variable remuneration.