Driving performance within the education technology sector

The combination of fun and productivity, especially when we mapped out our entire 3-5 year plan in a single day, was memorable. OKRs are a massive transformational tool for growth and cultural development. ”

I enjoyed it, we were all in different situations and places around OKRs and that helped to think of OKR application in a different setting than your own, a different angle.”

We wanted to use OKRs to define and measure what we needed to do to establish ourselves as part of the new business.”

It was more of an opportunity that drove us to engage with There Be Giants. We’d heard of OKRs and how they were a successful way to shape a growing business.”

We wanted a facilitator who knew how to implement the framework and could help the organisation grow whilst ensuring that the teams stayed aligned with the new leadership teams’ objectives.”

I invest in start-up recruitment businesses and I needed a framework to help them grow their businesses and achieve their goals.”

OKRs have now become a core pillar in most of our business processes.”

We had tried to implement OKRs ourselves but without the experience and knowledge needed to get it right, our efforts collapsed fairly quickly.”

Encompassing the cultural change we were implementing we wanted to achieve greater clarity around the outcomes we were aiming for, whilst at the same time fostering a sense of greater involvement, collaboration, and engagement.”

We had already investigated and looked at OKRs, even test run them on a small scale with a couple of our teams. We wanted to take them to the next level, and we realised we needed to call on an expert.”

Our challenge was a desire for alignment and transparency around our objectives. We had started to implement OKRs after doing our own reading and research. In practise it is more difficult than we initially anticipated.”

Working out what to focus on and allocate resources to, then how to measure our effectiveness, was something we needed help with.”

We wanted to align the team around the company’s strategic priorities, and be able to measure our progress with a more scientific approach.”

Seeing the clarity and drive within TalkTalk Business has demonstrated the benefits that OKRs can provide and so the rest of the business are now keen to adopt this way of working.”

To ensure we got OKRs right the second time around, we opted to find professionals to help our team.”