The goals marked during the first quarter, are they still relevant? If your answer is no, you need a robust objective setting approach to direct your company to make better goals.

Your objective setting process has to be agile to shift priorities as per the business requirements and work environment and help organizations concentrate on their employees' work to achieve the business goals.

With social distancing being the new normal, risk of getting disengaged becomes common in teams. To combat this situation, the organization should opt for an efficient performance management system to assess employee performance and a sturdy objective-setting system to engage employees and show them their contribution to business goals.

Such efficient method is Objectives and Key Results

OKRs adoption has helped companies grow 10 times over time. OKR hasn't just worked for Google, but Twitter, Intel, and LinkedIn. 

Importance of OKRs:

With focused employee performance, the business develops better. OKR process helps organizations in different ways.

Focus on what's important

With OKRs, you can choose what's important for the growth and development of your company. As you acknowledge the objective, it can be drafted into workable pieces. It means you can accomplish all your goals if you work with efficient planning. You can also accomplish stretch goals by using OKRs.

Progress can be measured

OKRs offer you transparency and direction to your target by offering you insights into achieving the goals. The key results used to achieve the goals help management know about the employees' progress. With regular check-ins, the managers can guide the employees if they are on track or have deviated from it and help them achieve the key results better.

Accountability increases employee experience

Responsibility teaches a person the right lessons and helps them learn more. OKRs make employees feel responsible for their jobs and objectives. It makes them feel the trust the company has laid in them. With responsibilities, they offer their best to achieve their goals. This enhances their experience in the company.

Alignment is simpler

Employees can sync their goals with other growth objectives of the company. After the management has set the goals and interacted with different departments for it, every employee can set their own objectives that sync with the company's objectives. If both the employee and company's goals are not aligned, progress will not be good.

Feedback helps employees work better

Employees can work better with OKR feedback. With the consistent evaluation of employee performance, the managers regularly provide feedback about their work quality, effort and performance. It helps the employee know about their performance and make changes for betterment accordingly.

Better transparency

OKRs offer a transparent work culture, where workers know the goals of their colleagues. This helps in preventing goal duplication. Also, OKRs boost collaboration between teams and help the members to choose their priorities. 

It promotes healthy competition, and employees find themselves connected, even after working from their homes. Transparency enhances the members' productivity and positively affects the company's performance.