🎒 Microlesson

🪞 Reflect

How can you demonstrate progress as your team transitions to new ways of working?  

💡 Concept

What gets measured gets done. Committing to new ways of working, such as implementing a remote-first approach or adopting more asynchronous communication, requires setting clear goals and establishing accountability in order to make these changes. 

The following list shows examples of remote-related objectives and key results (OKRs) that you can adapt for your team or organization.

Objective: Improve the balance of synchronous and asynchronous communication. 

Key Results:

• Conduct an audit of existing communication channels and behaviors. 

• Create a communication charter. 

• Reduce synchronous meeting time by 25%. 

• Increase the amount of time spent on deep work by 10%. 

• Complete a Single Source of Truth (SSoT). 

Objective: Reduce turnover of remote employees by 50% by building our team’s capability to succeed in a remote/hybrid environment. 

Key Results:

• 100% of leaders complete virtual leadership training. 

• 100% of individual contributors complete the Remote Work Certification. 

• Improve effective virtual leadership behaviors by 20%.

• Improve effective remote work behaviors by 20%.

• 100% of employees complete Async at Work training. 

Objective: Ensure desired business outcomes by developing effective and consistent remote work practices. 

Key Results:

• Complete a remote work policy. 

• 100% of employees complete training on remote work policy. 

• Update SOPs for 3 departments to lead to consistent outcomes regardless of location. 

• 100% of employees follow guidelines set out in remote work policy. 

• Conduct a review of implementation of the remote work policy. 

Objective: Create a work environment in which remote and in-office employees are treated equally. 

Key Results:

• Update performance management process and criteria to be consistent regardless of employee location. 

• Remote and in-office employees are promoted at the same rate. 

• 100% of employees report feeling they are treated the same regardless of location.

• 100% of managers conduct regular 1:1s with all employees. 

• 0 meetings limit attendance to just in-person employees. 

Objective: Attract top talent with our commitment to effective remote practices. 

Key Results:

• Hire a Head of Remote. 

• Update hiring pages to include information about our commitment to flexible work.  

• Provide home office or work-from-anywhere stipends to all employees and new hires. 

• Add flexible work policy to job postings. 

• 100% of leaders complete training on leading teams in distributed environments. 

• All social profiles include or reference a commitment to effective flexible work. 

🎬 Take Action

Choose one or two objectives and adapt them to your organization’s needs, including changing the term “remote” or “hybrid” if necessary to match the term used in your company. 

Then, pick up to five key results, adjust the terminology as needed, and determine the exact measurable goals you would like to achieve. The numbers and percentages listed are examples.  

Once your team has aligned on the objective(s) and corresponding results, document the OKRs using the tool that you use to track other goals. 

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