Training

Modern Leadership with Evidence-based Management and OKRs

Learn to improve outcomes through strategic alignment, autonomy, and empiricism. Organizations using Agile product development are still constrained by their overall approach to management — this workshop addresses that.

What You'll Learn

Hands-on, Activity-based Learning

Using OKRs for strategic goals

How to use OKRs to set and achieve strategic goals — managing the unknown and complexity through experimentation and adapting goals as you learn.

When to use (and not use) OKRs

Understand the appropriate contexts for OKRs — and where KPIs or other mechanisms are more appropriate.

Culture for OKRs

How to nurture the right culture — using clear goals, appropriate measures, and trust to enable self-management and autonomy.

Customer and business outcomes, not activity

Shift the OKR conversation away from measuring activity toward focusing on what matters — customer and business outcomes.

Evidence-based Management (EBM)

Drive operational improvements using four Key Value Areas (Unrealized Value, Current Value, Time to Market, Ability to Innovate) as lenses for evidence-based decision-making.

OKR anti-patterns and how to avoid them

Understand the most common OKR mistakes — and how to recognize and prevent them in your organization.

Who It's For

For Leaders Driving OKR Programs

OKR program leaders

Chief of Staff, VP of Strategy, CPO/VP of Product, PMO — the people leading OKR efforts across the organization.

IT and engineering leaders

Agile practitioners seeking to make an impact in the broader organization by connecting agility to strategic outcomes.

Certification

Includes PAL-EBM Assessment

Scrum.org PAL-EBM included

Modern Leadership with Evidence-based Management and OKRs leverages the Scrum.org EBM framework. A PAL-EBM assessment is included for all workshop participants — providing a recognized credential for your learning.

Ready to lead with evidence and outcomes?

Includes an optional implementation strategy/application session to get you started implementing OKRs in your organization — not just understanding them in theory.