Understanding your OKR maturity

How useful would it be for you to understand how your teams could be even better at setting/managing goals? Would a clear path to improvement be helpful too? If so, then you might want to check out our OKR/ Goal Management Maturity Model. The There Be Giants OKR Maturity Model The Maturity Model will help […]
Exploring where OKR magic happens

Giant Talk is our regular OKR podcast in which we dive into the OKR methodology and talk OKR best practice. Each month we bring you a live episode with our friends from Koan. This month we explored where the magic of OKRs really happens – the team level. We were joined by our Giant talk regulars, Lawrence […]
Giant Talk LIVE: Using OKRs as a network not a hierarchy

Giant Talk is our regular OKR podcast in which we dive into the OKR methodology and talk key OKR best practice. Each month we bring you a live episode with our friends from Koan. On our latest live episode, we were joined by our regular Giant Talk host Lawrence. But this time, it was him in […]
Giant Talk LIVE – Reflection as a high performance habit

Giant Talk is our regular OKR podcast in which we dive into the OKR methodology and talk to business leaders from around the globe. Each month we bring you a live episode with our friends from Koan. In case you missed the latest live episode here’s a recap of the key points the guys discussed. […]
Can you pick up where you left?

Arguably organisational leadership has never been more important. Your organisation has been through the most significant challenge it has perhaps ever experienced. Your services have been stretched to the limit. Some of your colleagues may have been seriously ill or died or lost a loved one. Your customers have been impacted in terms of access […]
There Be Giants turns 10

Lockdown is a bizarre way to celebrate, but we could not let our 10th birthday pass without looking back over our highlights! Jenny sat down with founder Roger (at a distance, of course), who started the company off on his own a whole decade ago, to reflect on how far we have come, and explore […]
Putting HR at the core of your business and HR’s role in OKRs

In case you missed episode 1 of Giant Watch, here’s a recap. Host and Head of OKR Projects, Lawrence Walsh was joined by Founder and Chief Giant Roger Longden, to share their thoughts on how HR can take centre stage in your business and the challenges to get there. Of course, as we are OKR […]
Giant Watch – Striving for organisational agility? Is HR at the core of your business?

Giant Watch Episode 1 – Striving for organisational agility? Is HR at the core of your business? In 2017, 94% of 10,000 HR Leaders across 140 countries said agility and collaboration are absolutely critical to an organisations success. Agility has never been more important, so as we emerge in to the ‘new normal’ join us […]
The future and how forced change could be the thing you never knew you needed

Global interest in one subject is very rare. It feels like the COVID-19 pandemic will affect not only people living through the current situation, but also generations to come. Forced Change and events shape our history. Think of the Berlin Wall falling, or 9/11, and how these events impacted on the life you live today […]
Linking OKRs and Performance Management – should it be done?

So, here’s one of the most common questions I’m asked when we are helping a client to design the right OKR framework for their organisation: Should we link OKRs to performance management and, if so, how is it best done? Now there are OKR “purists” out there who would turn cold at the mere suggestion […]
Guest Blog: Navigating uncertainty with OKRs

Last week team TBG joined our friends over at Koan for a live webinar to discuss Navigating Uncertainty with OKRs. In our latest guest blog, Koan bring us their recap of our live webinar. Roger Longden and Lawrence Walsh of There Be Giants were joined by our friends Matt Tucker and Scott Campbell from Koan, […]
Webinar: Navigating Uncertainty with OKRs

Webinar: Navigating Uncertainty with OKRs Date: Thursday, 2nd April at 4pm BST. Watch on-demand now What we’ll cover: Best practices for remote OKR planning and how to keep remote teams aligned. In today’s current climate, there is a high level of complexity and uncertainty. As teams around the globe become dispersed and traditional planning processes […]