Coaching OKRs

 

masterclass with David Morris

 
 

Are you an agile coach whose teams struggle to focus on outcomes over outputs? Do you want to unlock the power of writing meaningful objectives and key results (OKRs), so you can inspire your teams to consistently deliver exceptional outcomes?

For the past 15 years, David has been working as a coach at the team, tribe, and enterprise level; and a good part of the last 5 years has been spent focusing on OKRs helping teams see how their work connects with the purpose of the whole organisation. He has coached over 100 teams and squads through multiple quarters on how to draft and improve OKRs, and has noticed a pattern to how this goes (when it goes well).

Join him to get hands-on experience of elements from the Coaching OKRs programme he is developing to help agile coaches guide their teams in overcoming the fear of creating objectives that seem out of their scope of influence.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Refresh on what well-crafted OKRs look like – including how they are different from and complementary to KPIs

  • Re-think how your teams engage with quarterly planning (from an OKR perspective)

  • Learn useful patterns and techniques for giving strong feedback that helps your teams in drafting their OKRs

  • Help your teams see the power in linking their Sprint goals to their OKRs, so that they can anticipate how delighted their stakeholders will be when they hit their objectives out of the park

  • Be the first people in the world to learn how to play the new Rule the World, a card game for learning how to set OKRs, developed with Scott Provence.

  • You’ll also get your own deck to take away and play with your teams.

 
Rule the World, from Align to Deliver
 
 

About David

David wants to help build beautiful businesses, that care about planet and people as well as profit; humane workplaces fit for the 21st century, where everyone has a stake in the outcome and an opportunity to contribute to direction.

In 2022 he reformed and rebranded his coaching and education business as Align to Deliver, to focus on supporting coaches, teams, and leadership in designing, rolling out, operating, and supporting an OKR framework.

Contributing back to the community is also important: As well as co-founding Agile on the Beach NZ, he has worked with the Agile Alliance and IIBA in NZ and in the UK.

He loves writing too: 'Scrum an ideal framework for agile projects' (2017), 'Agile Project Management 3rd edition' (2022), as well as too many wikipedia pages and the occasional Quora answers.