OKR Professional – Implementing strategies agilely and effectively («H35240»)

• Learning how corporate strategies can be successfully implemented in an agile way in a volatile environment
• Getting to know the relevant agile principles for strategy implementation as well as tried-and-tested procedures and approaches from numerous strategy consulting projects as well as concrete tips and ideas for implementing your own corporate strategy
• Learning how to play a key role in agile strategy implementation as an OKR professional
• Receiving valuable suggestions and tips for agile strategy implementation with OKR and the successful introduction of OKR based on a consistent case study from practice
• Dealing with OKR in the seminar and applying OKR in your own company in the self-learning phase

1 Overview of the integrated strategy process

• Strategic analyses
• Strategy development
• Strategy implementation
• Strategic control

2 The challenges of strategy implementation

• Principles of agile management
• The different levels of impact when formulating objectives
• Comparison: traditional vs. agile strategy implementation with OKR

3 The Objectives & Key Results (OKR) framework

• OKR basics: How does OKR work as a target system?
• What are the advantages of OKR compared to other management frameworks?
• What are the critical success factors for the effective use of OKR?
• OKR roles: Strategy Owner, OKR Professional, Implementation Team
• Understanding the role and tasks of the «OKR Professional»: How can you fulfil your role as an «OKR Professional» and effectively plan, manage and support agile strategy implementation with OKR?
• OKR cycle: Interaction between quarterly and weekly events. From goal setting and OKR planning to the review and retrospective
• What are the challenges and best practices in implementing OKR in organisations?

4 Introduction and use of OKR based on an end-to-end practical case

• Based on a given SWOT analysis, the participants develop the strategy of the company presented
• Based on the strategy map, the participants derive the OKR for the company and a selected business unit
• With the help of this case study, the participants go through a complete OKR cycle (goal setting, planning, weekly, review & retrospective) and learn the critical success factors when using OKR

Impulse contributions, instructional talk, exchange of experience and discussion, best-practice examples, group work

This training is aimed at members of management, executives, project managers and employees from all areas of the company (e.g. marketing, sales, IT, HR, purchasing, procurement and production), trainers and coaches who want to provide professional support to management as part of strategy implementation or who want to develop their own strategy for their own area and implement it in an agile manner (e.g. digitalisation strategy, HR strategy, marketing & sales strategy, controlling strategy).

There are no formal requirements for participation in this course.

After attending this 2-day seminar, you will have the opportunity to become a Certified OKR Professional (Certificate from Erasmus University (EHS) Basel).

Clients and employers value formal qualifications from reputable universities and educational institutions. A university certificate shows that you have acquired specific knowledge, skills and competences as well as practical knowledge in a particular field at university level.

After attending this seminar, you will be awarded 13.00 PDUs.

We recommend booking at least 14 days before the seminar date so that you can receive any documents by post in good time.