Blog — Moving the Needle

Eight tips to Improving Accountability with Weekly OKR Check-ins

You find yourself sitting at your desk, scratching your head. What is going on? You thought you were clear and fair. You repeated it so many times. How is it possible that your teams still don’t do what you expect of them?

Technical Leadership, OKRsBart den HaakNovember 14, 2019OKRs, Accountability

OKR Check-ins: Making Consistent, Meaningful Progress

People hate uncertainty. Research has proven that people can experience stress and illness when dealing with ambiguity and obscurity. Our brain appreciates certainty the same as food, sex, and social connections. We humans are rather predictable creatures, ruled by genetics and time-honoured survival mechanisms. There are few things that give us more satisfaction than having a firm sense of control over our environment, safety, and working towards a goal (acting with purpose).

Technical Leadership, Strategy, OKRsBart den HaakNovember 6, 2019OKRs, Progress

Organisational Culture Shock - Introducing OKRs

So, you have recently heard about this new management goal-setting method called OKRs and you are really eager to implement them within your organization. If Google and all of the other big tech giants are using them, then they need to be good right? So, what do you do next?

Technical Leadership, CultureBart den HaakOctober 30, 2019OKRs, Culture

Slingshot your OKR success

Last week I was a guest in the Fit Bots webinar where I talked about "Slingshot your OKR Success".

Strategy, OKRsBart den HaakOctober 23, 2019Conference, OKRs

Getting the Grade: Tracking OKR & Confidence Levels

Time Travel Travel back in time with me for a moment. It’s New Year’s Eve and you are watching the fireworks in the sky with your friends. You are holding a glass of champagne in your hand and making some promises to your friends. “This year I’ll quit smoking”, one friend says. Another promise aloud: […]

OKRs, Technical LeadershipBart den HaakOctober 17, 2019Tracking

IT Spring 2019 - OKR Commitment square

Check out my talk at IT Spring 2019. In this presentation, I talk about how to use OKRs for strategy and how to use a tool called the OKR commitment square to execute your OKR check-ins.

OKRs, OKR Check-insBart den HaakJuly 10, 2019Conference

Clarity with a single OKR

“Focus is the thing that makes the difference between excelling and flailing about in mediocrity” ~ Christina Wodtke.

Strategy, Technical Leadership, OKRsBart den HaakJune 4, 2019OKRs, Strategy, Focus

How to run a successful OKR Check-In

Last week Perdoo founder Henrik-Jan van der Pol asked me to describe how teams can run a successful OKR check-in. OKR Check-ins are the key ingredient of any successful OKR implementation. But they are hard to do. You need to run them at least weekly, come well prepared and make sure your team members are […]

OKRs, OKR Check-insBart den HaakApril 2, 2019OKRs, Check-ins