Managers and business leaders are perennially in the process of identifying tools and practices to boost employee engagement. However, constructive employee feedback is generally out of the picture. While most managers say if a particular deliverable was up to the mark or not, they rarely give the reasoning behind the same. Put simply, employee feedback is having a constructive discussion with your employees and team members about what is working and what is not. Statistically speaking, employee feedback has a direct impact on engagement and performance. Research shows 43% of highly-engaged employees receive feedback at least once a week. Additionally, 75% of employees prefer their feedback as early as possible.
The value in employee feedback
There are various reasons which make employee feedback a critical tool for organizational success and effectiveness, here are a few of them:
Clarifies expectations and path ahead: Firstly, offering feedback helps employees understand what is expected out of them. These expectations help them charter out a clear plan for themselves. It helps employees understand where they are going wrong and gives them the chance to perform better. Most importantly, it helps them create a course of action and improvement.
Important for individual and organizational health: Unless managers offer employee feedback, it is unfair to expect employees to improve their performance. Sluggish or no improvement in performance hurts both the employee’s morale and confidence as well as the organization’s top line. Invariably, this is defeating both for employee as well as organizational health. Employee feedback bridges this gap and allows employees to play on their strengths and work on their weaknesses to boost their performance and bring in greater productivity.
Decreased attrition: Lack of feedback is often cited as a reason by employees for leaving an organization. A study by Gallup showed that turnover rates are 14.9% lower in employees who receive feedback than those who don’t. All managers and business leaders know the cost of employee turnover. Thus, employee feedback can be an effective way to save millions incurred during onboarding, training and getting new hires up the curve.
Opens up conversations and communication: Finally, employee feedback opens up channels for communication and conversation between employees and their managers. Not only does this add to great relationship building which boosts employee engagement but also enables managers to understand employee personality and ensure effective mentoring and guidance.
Role of managers in employee feedback
It goes without saying that managers are the flag bearers for employee feedback. More often than not, they directly interact with the employees and understand their personality. Invariably, this makes them the custodian of employee intel. This consequently results in them having the right approach to delivering feedback constructively. Organization and business leaders today need to promote manager coaching to deliver feedback to ensure performance effectiveness and organizational success.
The buck doesn't stop here
While acknowledging the importance of employee feedback is the first step, it is by no means the end. Put simply, the focus should not only be on offering feedback, but offering it in the right way which can be acted upon. Those who give feedback must do so with some clear pointers on what could be better and what went well. Additionally, focus should be on the long term goals rather than short term tasks and projects. Stay tuned to this space as we bring to you quick hacks on delivering constructive feedback.
The right compensation management practices and policies can make or break your employee experience. Of course, there is merit in linking compensation and performance to drive organizational success, it can lead to several questions and implementation problems as well.
Read on to get all your compensation management related questions answered.
Why is fair compensation important?
Let’s start with the very basic question of why fair compensation is important and the merits it brings along. It is no surprise that if you are paid more and are compensated according to your efforts, you are likely to give in your 100% and stay with an organization longer. However, there are other factors that support fair compensation:
Reduce the risk of turnover: 50% employees are more likely to leave if they believe they are paid below market
Retain high-potential performers: High-potential talent brings 91% more value to an organization
Thus, fair compensation as a part of compensation linked performance management has the potential to facilitate better employee outcomes such as engagement, experience and performance.
Should compensation be tied to performance reviews?
To make compensation fair and inclusive in all aspects, it needs to have a clear foundation. Most organizations have relied on performance reviews as a way of reflecting on performance as a means of compensation decisions. However, there are several competing views both for and against tying compensation to performance reviews.
Benefits of tying compensation and performance reviews
Compensation can act as a great motivator for employees to perform well, which can be reflected in their performance reviews
Enable employees to get a clear understanding of what rewards or recognition they get with an increasing level of performance
Give employees the opportunity to see the direct value of their performance in tangible ways
At an organizational level, it helps to align inputs (compensation) with outputs (performance), enabling efficient resource allocation
Ensure that compensation hikes and appraisals are seen as transparent and not arbitrary
Pitfalls of tying compensation and performance reviews
It focuses on only those aspects of performance which are under review and not the overall and subtler forms of organizational contribution for employees
Performance linked compensation system leads to employees giving themselves more lenient ratings during self reflection during 360 performance review. Thus, driving the focus away from self reflection as a development practice
Biased peer review can also prevent fair compensation, especially when the departmental budgets are limited
Sometimes, it creates a blame oriented workplace culture and discourages collaborative problem resolution
Clearly, there are both sides to the story.
The most favorable outcome will be to keep performance as one of the parameters for compensation, but not the sole foundation.
Additionally, as one of the best practices, performance reviews can be conducted on a regular basis, where some are only developmental in nature and others can be tied to compensation management.
5 compensation best practices today
As discussed, focusing only on performance reviews for compensation management needs a relook. Working with growing organizations, we have curated a list of the top five performance and compensation management practices you can leverage:
1. Keep up with market trends
Ensure that your compensation structure aligns with the market trends so your employees don’t feel underpaid and leave.
Conduct a dipstick survey to understand appropriate pay scales
Keep your pay structures updated based on market corrections
2. Be clear about relationship between performance and compensation
Provide complete transparency and clarity to your employees on what constitutes high levels of performance and what it will take to earn a raise or appraisal.
Highlight specific job competencies that link compensation and performance management
Don’t rely completely on performance reviews as a means to determine compensation, let them be developmental in nature
Gauge performance against pre defined competencies over time
3. Have well defined criteria
Have specific, well defined and measurable criteria for the compensation strategy to ensure that there is complete transparency.
Develop or choose metrics which are easy to comprehend
Try to quantify the value for each criteria, including years of experience, education, etc.
Account for difference in compensation based on skills, performance levels, among others
4. Communicate benefits effectively
Salary in hand or the pay check your employees receive is accompanied by a range of benefits that are a part of the compensation structure and cost to the company, but are often overlooked by employees. Make sure they are widely communicated.
Create a list of all benefits offered to employees and communicate to them via different ways, email, discussion sessions, etc.
Be vocal about the value these benefits are able to add over and above their monetary value
Illustrate how these benefits also act as tax saving options at times, leading to a more efficient compensation structure
5. Have a standard pay range
Ensure that there is a base pay range for every role and profile with variable additions based on candidate competencies.
Have clear guidelines and pay range for each position to set the right expectations
Illustrate the competencies/parameters based on which deviation from standard pay range will be acceptable
Have a well defined strategy to evolve the pay range and support employee transition from one range to another
How to ensure distributive justice?
The idea of fair compensation and linking compensation and performance management, leads to a very interesting concept of distributive justice. On a broad level, distributive justice essentially focuses on ensuring that the compensation received by employees is fair and equitable and is based on objective and rational grounds which are uniform for all. Here are a few ways to ensure distributive justice:
Be transparent about the criteria for compensation and what constitutes as parameters for raise
Ensure that measuring of performance/ other criteria for performance is bias free and doesn’t fall prey to halo, horns or recency effect
Measure potential and market value of the employee in addition to experience and expertise to ensure distributive justice for high potential employees
Be fair in your compensation and appraisal assessment
Pay transparency: Merits and demerits
Another interesting component of compensation and performance management that you must acquaint yourself with is pay transparency. Essentially pay transparency refers to how openly or freely employees within an organization can discuss their compensation with others.
This is not only limited to the check they take home but other perks and benefits they are entitled to. Invariably, many platforms today also enable individuals to anonymously share their salaries online and get insights from others doing the same. However, there are diverse views on when it comes to pay transparency for an organization.
Merits of pay transparency
Those who advocate for pay transparency believe that it can enable large scale impact for the organization across performance management.
Meet employee expectations, build greater trust and augment engagement and overall experience
Attract the best talent by showcasing competitive compensation at market standards
Reduce chances of biases in salary negotiations and increments
Ensure fair compensation and distributive justice among employees
Greater employee motivation leading to better organizational outcomes
Fewer negotiations allowing employees to focus on adding value to their work
Demerits of pay transparency
However, there is a flip side to pay transparency too with some common pitfalls that need to be addressed proactively.
Risk of resentment and conflict if pay scale is not uniform and balanced
May lead to comparison of pay scales among peers in the organization with possible backfire
Requires strategic planning and meticulous implementation
May lead to high levels of turnover in case employees feel they are paid less than what they deserve, in comparison to others
Employees might have privacy concerns about their salary being shared with others
How to guide managers to have better compensation conversations?
In the last section of this article, we will focus on how managers play an integral role in compensation and performance management and the best practices to guide managers to have effective compensation conversations with their team members.
This startling statistic clearly highlights how despite the apparent importance of compensation management, the focus on ensuring a seamless process is rather limited. However, organizations today can play a leading role in enabling their managers to have better pay communication and conversations by following these tips:
Create a communication toolkit with all the resources including compensation structure, criteria, performance linkage, etc. and share it with all the managers
Conduct regular surveys to gauge employee pulse and data from employees on their compensation and share insights with managers to help create a conversation flow
Leverage tools for NLP led sentiment analysis of open ended responses and share guided 1:1 conversation templates for effective compensation conversations
Encourage managers to keep compensation conversations and performance reviews as separate
Give proper context, especially during an appraisal or raise, with both internal and external factors that led to the compensation decision
Communicate the value and importance of the employee to the organization, don’t rely on numbers and monetary increase do all the talking
Prepare for the conversation and be prepared for response, be an active listener and patiently address grievances, if any
Final Thoughts
It is quite evident that compensation and performance management are intrinsically interlinked and if leveraged well, compensation has great potential to not only drive performance, but also facilitate engagement, retention and much more.
However, to ensure the same, you need to have a very structured, transparent and fair compensation strategy and policy. Furthermore, you must, don’t forget to invest in training your managers to bridge any gaps and constantly gauge and address employee pulse — to ensure fair compensation for all.
Talent development is critical for growing organizations which see the workforce as their biggest asset. Focus on developing their talent stack not only leads to a pleasant employee experience, it also augments the overall performance and productivity for an organization.
While you may come across many ways to facilitate talent development, leveraging the competency framework can help you move the needle very quickly.
Let's see how.
5 Stages in talent development
Before moving directly to how you can implement the competency framework, let’s quickly understand the 5 stages of talent development.
1. Planning
The first stage involves planning for your talent needs based on your organizational priorities and creating the position profile based on the skills, attitudes and other competencies.
2. Identifying
Based on the position profile, you need to start attracting talent for the position. You can do so by spreading the word in the right networks, through job portal platforms, etc. The objective is to ensure that you are reaching out to the right network. You can also explore the right candidate for the position internally to considerably save hiring and training costs.
3. Onboarding
Once you have identified the right person, the next stage of talent development is extending the offer to the person after a thorough background check as well as a competency and expectation match. It also requires creating personalized onboarding plans for the first 30-60-90 days of the candidate’s journey within the organization. Read our guide to employee onboarding to learn more about onboarding do’s and don’ts.
4. Developing
The main focus of talent development starts with providing the right development and learning opportunities to your workforce. This can involve upskilling for both technical and soft skills, leadership building or any development intervention based on the need of the role and position.
Finally, talent development involves undertaking initiatives to retain your talent. While learning opportunities are important, facilitating engagement, wellness, motivation, etc. all contribute to employee retention.
What is the competency framework?
If you are wondering how the competency framework aligns with talent development, you need to start by decoding what the framework actually stands for.
Put simply, a competency framework is a set of behaviors, skills, abilities and attributes that an organization considers imperative for creating a high performance culture.
The competency framework can be implemented at all stages of the talent development or the employee lifecycle within an organization. The idea is to ensure that certain core competencies are kept at the heart of the decision making that in any way impact the workforce.
Importance of talent development for employee retention
Competency framework based talent development is very important for employee retention. Talent development practices when undertaken effectively have the potential to encourage team members to stay with the organization for long and at the same time become ambassadors to help attract high quality peers.
Here are the top reasons why competency framework based talent development matters:
Recruit the right person for the right job
Provide the right learning and development opportunities
Be an active participant in professional growth for employees
Train and develop employees for professional obstacles
Enable employees to navigate through challenges with mentoring support
Enable employees to see a clear career growth path within the organization
Implementing the competency framework: Process, steps and ownership
Now that we have covered the basics of talent development and competency framework, let’s understand how leveraging the latter to advance the former can create a far reaching impact for organizations.
Step I: Create a competency framework
The first step is to create a competency framework which involves identifying the key competencies which will be instrumental in guiding all decisions around talent development. Depending on the nature of your organization, there can be categories within the competency framework that you seek to focus on. Your competency framework should focus on behaviors, skills and attributes which are critical for performance and overall success. The following steps can help you create a competency framework for talent development:
1. Identify key competencies
Establish core competencies that are required to be possessed by everyone in the organization, for instance, teamwork or collaboration
Highlight the functional competencies that are required for specific roles and positions, for instance, situational awareness and the ability to think on one’s feet for those in business development roles
Identify competencies that align with your core values and are non negotiable, for instance, if your core value revolves around innovation and experimentation, a key competency will be a risk taking attitude
2. Determine behaviors and attributes
Define the key parameters for each identified competency i.e. what are the factors that collectively contribute to presence or absence of that competency
Establish metrics to judge the level of competency alignment across the workforce and identify the gaps
3. Link to organizational goals
Create a business statement of how the competencies can advance overarching organizational goals
Focus on the value add they bring along for organizational success
The responsibility of creating the competency framework is collective. It starts with involving the executive leadership to ensure alignment with the vision, people managers to ensure they are ideal for the culture you are trying to build and functional managers to ensure inclusion of right competencies for each role and position. Furthermore, involving those on the ground can be fruitful as they have the best idea of what competencies are critical and others which are good to have.
Step II: Align the competency framework with recruitment
Once the competency framework for talent development is ready, the next step is to align it with your recruitment process to ensure precise and effective hiring. There are a few steps along the way:
Mention the keywords from the competency framework in your position profile or job description
Specifically identify 5-7 key competencies for each role important for high level of performance
Identify behaviors for each competency to look out for during the selection process
Conduct competency based interviews and assignments for a comprehensive view
If there is a significant competency match, identify gaps if any for competency based development later
Document results to align performance management for selected candidates
The onus of implementing the competency framework during selection lies primarily with the HR team and recruiters who assess the candidates with different tests and assessments. Team managers and leaders also play a role in assessing functional competencies and fit.
Step III: Facilitate competency based performance management and development opportunities
Irrespective of whether an employee is onboarded before or after you have implemented the competency framework for recruitment, you need to ensure competency based performance management and development opportunities.
Performance management
Align OKRs and goals with competencies; focus on behaviors that can help drive the key results. For instance if a key result is expand to 5 new markets, a key competency can be adaptability
Conduct competency based 360 feedback review; encourage your managers to review performance not just on outcomes but presence or absence of competencies that made the outcomes possible
Encourage competency based self reflection for employees to assess their performance based on the competency framework
Identify development areas based on competency needs for particular roles as well as the next career path in the trajectory
Reward competency based performance and outcomes
Measure competencies on an ongoing basis and compare results with recruitment analysis
Talent development interventions
Define competency gaps for each position and identify talent development interventions to bridge the same. For instance, if communication is a key competency for a sales role, learning can be oriented towards better communication skills
Align developmental interventions with competency based OKRs
Identify learning objectives for each role and position and determine how they connect with the competency framework
From a talent development perspective, the focus of the competency framework should equally be on developing employees for their next or subsequent role based on the specific competencies for the same.
The onus of aligning performance and development with the competency framework lies with team managers as they are best able to determine the performance gaps. Furthermore, employees with their managers can identify competency gaps for better performance and focus on the right learning and development interventions to bridge the same.
Step IV: Leverage competency framework for succession planning
Finally, the competency framework must also impact the subsequent rungs of talent development where an employee moves up the ladder from one position to the next. Based on the organizational matrix and competencies for each level, you need to identify key attributes that differentiate one level from another and ensure the same is communicated to your employees.
You should:
Help you employees create a career development plan based on your competency framework to help them understand which competencies will enable them to grow
Make succession planning a key organizational priority and focus on talent development from that lens
Final Thoughts
In a nutshell, it is quite evident that the competency framework can inform and advance every stage of talent development for fast growing organizations. If you implement such a framework across the employee lifecycle, you will significantly reduce your chances of a wrong hire and will be able to nurture a workforce that aligns on the vision, goals and overall organizational culture.
A clear competency based talent development approach can help you achieve high levels of performance which is observable and measurable.
While most people managers are able to create a business case for setting OKRs as well as for the adoption of an OKR software by leveraging industry benchmarks and best practices, there is a need to explicitly decode the return on investment of using an OKR tool as well.
Unless they are able to clearly illustrate how the return achieved using a goal management software is greater than the investment, it becomes difficult to sustain the adoption and get long-term leadership buy-in.
Continue reading to strengthen your business case on the same.
What’s the ROI of Goal Management using OKRs?
Let’s quickly understand how the OKR framework is integral for an organization, especially high growth companies. Most fast growing organizations have competing priorities they need to focus on with limited resources at hand.
Therefore, simply setting goals by adopting a top-down approach without supporting parameters can lead to confusion and incompetence. OKRs help drive away this ambiguity by linking measurable key results for each objective and facilitating a collaborative approach to achieving goals.
Here are the top three benefits of implementing OKRs in an effective manner:
1. Better focus and more clarity
OKRs enable employees and leadership to have a very clear focus on what needs to be accomplished and what work is out of scope. The idea is to have complete clarity on —
what each goal or objective means,
its purpose for the overall success of the organization, and
what achieving it will look like.
The last part is extremely important as it helps create a sharp focus and set priorities straight.
93% of employees don’t really understand what their organization is trying to accomplish in order to align with their own work.
This illustrates that there is a big absence of clarity and focus amongst employees when it comes to what needs to be accomplished, which stands in the way of creating a high performance culture. Therefore, OKRs can help reduce such uncertainty and ambiguity, making it easy for the workforce to concentrate on what matters.
2. Strategic alignment
Taking cue from the first point, the second benefit or purpose of implementing OKRs foris a need for clarity of expectations and overall team and organizational alignment. In case of fast growing organizations, there is an overlapping of roles and responsibilities and a lack of clarity on expectations from each employee. This leads to lower than average outcomes, productivity and revenue growth and data backs the same.
97% of employees and executives believe lack of alignment within a team impacts the outcome of a task or project. Whereas, companies that regularly exceeded revenue goals were 2.3X more likely to report high levels of alignment.
By ensuring organization-wide goal visibility, OKRs help teams to decode what is expected out of each team member and their respective contribution towards achievement of the shared goals. Thus, increasing alignment and collaboration.
3. Greater engagement
Finally, setting and implementing OKRs is often a collaborative process. Employees get involved in and participate during the entire OKR process and feel engaged in the same. This greater involvement and participation leads to deeper levels of engagement and ownership of key results which drive impact.
OKRs also enable employees to also gauge their performance and measure their progress in an effective manner. This motivates them to get more involved in achieving the common weekly, quarterly and annual goals. This higher level of engagement directly impacts key organizational parameters such as retention, productivity, profitability, etc.
How does an OKR software make a difference?
The business case for OKRs is very clear. However, for companies that are scaling up, with limited bandwidth and competing priorities, often setting OKRs itself gets left behind due to other business priorities.
If an organization focuses on a manual approach to the OKR system, there are several steps which require a lot of time and effort including setting and writing, implementing, tracking, grading, evaluating and modifying OKRs.
Fortunately, today there are OKR tools in the market, which can help automate all of these aspects to help simplify the OKR journey. The right goal management software can help you maximize the realization of the return on investment for your OKRs. Following are the top five ways in which an OKR software makes a measurable difference on the bottomline —
1. It allows you to document goals
First, an OKR tool can help organizations document or record the OKRs in a way that is visible and accessible to all. There is supporting evidence to show that what gets documented has a higher chance of being achieved, as what is out of sight is often out of mind.
Individuals are 42% more likely to achieve goals when they are physically recorded.
Therefore, the OKR tool can enable organizations to clearly define the business and team OKRs in a written manner which can be reflected on, seen again and again to create instant recall for employees.
2. It drives accountability and alignment
OKR tools are great for creating alignment and accountability. On the alignment front, the OKR software can help achieve high levels of strategic alignment on what is the responsibility of each team member across organizations towards the key business goal achievement.
Highly aligned companies grow revenue 58% faster and are 72% more profitable than their misaligned counterparts.
The dashboard of a good OKR software can help you constantly gauge the level of goal achievement, ensure that team members are aligned on different phases as well as keep a track of when their responsibility is due. It creates high levels of transparency.
Moreover, greater alignment leads to high levels of accountability. Generally, since there is a lack of alignment on responsibilities, there is an accompanying lack of ownership and accountability, and most employees shirk away from taking accountability.
84% of the workforce describes itself as “trying but failing” or “avoiding” accountability, even when employees know what to fix.
A goal management software like SuperBeings allows you to integrate OKRs with regular meetings and check-ins to keep track of progress. Thus, driving a culture of accountability.
3. It enables real-time OKR progress and goal tracking
It is very common for companies to set OKRs and then evaluate them only at the end of the quarter/year. There is a lack of mid-term tracking which makes it difficult to gauge whether the progress is aligned with the key results or not.
40% of people that write down goals don’t check whether they’ve achieved them. Moreover, only 5.9% of companies communicate goals daily.
An OKR software can help you address this concern by facilitating day-to-day OKR progress tracking. A daily dashboard and history of 1:1 and team check-ins on OKRs, can help organizations track developments over time.
SuperBeings OKR dashboard helps you get a quick overview on all primary goals
It can also help identify and resolve any performance issues that stand in the way of goal achievement preemptively. At the same time, even if organizations are tracking and monitoring OKR progress, doing so with a manual process is inefficient. An OKR tool can automate most of these processes to enable HR and people managers to spend more time on driving results.
4. An effective software offers OKR training for success
Another major concern that organizations face when it comes to OKRs is being prepared and ready for the same. Many line managers and others struggle with writing effective OKRs. Many organizations believe setting OKRs once is enough. However, that is far from the truth.
Research says, companies that set performance goals quarterly can generate 31% more returns than those reassessing annually.
Using an OKR software can help eliminate all these challenges.
First, the right tool will offer OKR coaching and onboarding support to train managers to write OKRs which are effective and result oriented.
Second, it can help reflect on OKRs at regular intervals to realign on them and adjust according to changing market conditions.
Third, the OKR tool can help managers have meaningful 1:1 conversations with team members to link OKR with performance and facilitate high levels of goal achievement. This is a direct return on investment which can create value across the organizational verticals.
5. It facilitates greater collaboration
Finally, an OKR software can promote high levels of collaboration for goal achievement. For many organizations, the inability to collaborate leads to low levels of results, diminishing the ROI for OKRs.
86% of employees and executives cite lack of collaboration or ineffective communication for workplace failures.
Using a good OKR software makes collaboration seamless by aligning cross-functional projects and tracking cumulative progress. Invariably, an increase in degree of collaboration is a direct ROI of an OKR tool which can create far reaching impact.
How to calculate the ROI of an OKR software?
In this final section of the article, we will talk about the key parameters that can help you gauge the ROI of an OKR software. While the above mentioned are primary impact areas, most of them have a qualitative aspect to them.
Gauging the ROI requires backing of data points from employee experience and business results, which the following parameters can help explain.
1. Level of transparency
Organizations should start by gauging whether or not transparency and alignment on goals has increased. This can be measured using employee pulse surveys to understand their opinion on how well they have visibility of goals and clarity on what they need to work towards. Therefore, the first ROI parameter for an OKR software is to identify the increase in level of transparency to ensure everyone is working in the same direction and there are no gaps or overlap in efforts.
2. Degree and time period of goal achievement
The main purpose of an OKR tool is to facilitate the effective and efficient achievement of the goals set by an organization. Thus, the next parameter to measure ROI should revolve around the degree and time period of goal achievement.
You can start by comparing the degree of goal achievement by leveraging OKR grading to see if there is a significant improvement in percentage terms as compared to pre-OKR tool period. Second, it is important to gauge whether or not the goals/key results have been achieved in a shorter period of time or not. Since the OKR platform facilitates better alignment, collaboration, tracking, etc., it can help organizations achieve or realize the goals faster.
3. Reduced administrative overheads
Third, there are several administrative overheads that accompany the setting and implementation of goals/OKRs. These include tracking, grading, etc. for managers and providing inputs on the part of employees. The ROI of an OKR software can be gauged by mapping whether or not these overheads come down.
For the managers, ROI can be calculated in terms of time saved which can be invested in other value add tasks.
For employees, the ROI comes in the form of reduced time and effort spent in juggling between platforms to work on goals and projects. The right tool will provide organizations with integrations across top productivity tools like Slack, Jira, etc. which reduce administrative overheads for all organizational stakeholders.
4. Increased revenue
The next parameter for ROI calculation is to measure the change or increase in revenue after the adoption of an OKR software. Since an OKR tool seeks to enable organizations to achieve their goals faster, cost effectively and to a greater extent, there should be an increase in the revenue realized.
According to Larry Page, co-founder, Google claims that “OKRs have helped lead us to 10X growth, many times over.”
5. Better employee experience
Finally, gauging the value of employee parameters like retention/turnover, productivity, engagement, etc, can cumulatively be leveraged to capture the ROI of an OKR tool. There are several ways to gauge these workforce parameters, along with factors like eNPS, etc. which have a direct business impact. Calculating them can help measure the ROI of the OKR tool for an organization.
Final Thoughts
It is evident that adoption of an intelligent OKR software is not only good to have, but integral for organizational success. Using the right tool has a direct business impact which can be measured in numbers using the ROI parameters mentioned in this article.
There are both qualitative and quantitative aspects to measuring the ROI and a balanced approach to both can empower organizations to align individual performance with business goals.
If you are considering implementing the right OKR software in your business, try out SuperBeings free 21 day trial. Book today. (No credit card or commitment required)
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