
Learn to write meaningful and measurable OKRs, align goals across the organization, and measure value-based key results to drive business outcomes.
Explore how to write strong work goals by comparing them to planning a vacation, considering reasons to travel, priorities, trade-offs, and alignment with others, and practice via the attached PDF.
Apply the point of need and time (pont) to align and prioritize projects, connecting work to the company's top goals and driving meaningful impact.
Compare popular goal frameworks—SMART, BSQ, and V2MOM—and evaluate their advantages, disadvantages, and how they drive alignment and metrics. Discover how these frameworks inform practical goal setting for OKRs.
Learn how OKRs (objectives and key results) create alignment and transparency by cascading goals from the top level to every employee, enabling ownership, autonomy, and prioritization aligned with the mission.
Learn to write OKRs by defining objectives and measurable key results, with practical examples for marketing conferences and employee tenure improvements.
Choose one personal goal, define a clear objective, and write strong key results to measure progress using OKRs, then record them in the attached PDF and share on Padlet.
Define metric-driven key results in line with the main purpose, measure what matters, and use OKRs to prioritize impact over simply checking boxes.
Identify baseline, positive, negative, threshold, and milestone metrics, with examples like four-hour ticket response times, and learn to link 3–5 key results to guide progress toward goals.
OKRs enable cascading from top leadership to all employees, aligning objectives and key results across departments to achieve organizational goals.
Document and share your OKRs with transparency, so everyone sees how their goals align with top level objectives. Cascade goals using spreadsheets, templates, or hierarchical charts with scalable OKR software.
Learn how goals guide priorities, provoke essential questions, and align teams without causing paralysis. Treat OKRs as a flexible working document, not a weapon or punishment, to drive progress.
Apply the OKR framework to set personal and professional goals, align them with top company goals, and share feedback by rating and reviewing the course.
Setting strong, metric-driven goals for yourself and your organization can be tough, but it’s also incredibly important. In this course, you will learn how to crush your goals by using the Objectives and Key Results (OKR) framework. This simple method for goal setting is used by many successful companies across the globe, including Google, GE, and Udemy, because they are an excellent method for communicating what each team is working on and how they're measuring their results with the rest of the organization. The framework requires people to write metric-driven results that demonstrate they have achieved their objective. OKRs are also easily cascaded within an organization, so that everyone’s goals align.
This course is led by Shelley Osborne, Head of Learning & Development at Udemy. It is designed for people at all levels, from individual contributors to managers, who want to write strong goals for themselves and their team, and cascade goals within their organization.
In the Goal Crushing course, you will learn how to:
Write Objectives and Key Results for yourself and your team to help you communicate the value of your work with the rest of your organization
Use different types of metrics to write value-based key results that demonstrate your impact on your organization
Align and cascade goals throughout an organization
Document your goals
Write your own value-based OKRs
By the end of this course, you will be able to crush your goals by writing strong, metric-driven OKRs. Are you ready? Let’s crush this!