Good HR OKRs

HR professionals have many areas of responsibility such as employee engagement, hiring, and onboarding. Improvement in these areas can have a significant impact on the company’s performance. However, it could be hard to decide where to begin and how to measure success. 

Objectives and Key Results, a collaborative goal-setting tool, help HR teams single out improvement areas and define achievable quarterly outcomes that will get the HR team closer to their long-term goals. 

One of the most popular Objectives that our customers in Weekdone identify as the highest priority is to increase employee happiness, improve engagement, and boost motivation. You might say that it’s hard to measure cultural change but somehow everyone in the organization can always feel if this change is happening. So if bad culture is so obvious, and changes for the better are immediately noticeable, how can this change be impossible to measure? Moreover, employee engagement is only one of many areas HR teams can impact with the power of OKRs. 

You will find some good HR OKR examples below. Use them as a reference when you are trying to come up with your own Human Resource OKRs.

 

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Design and launch internal Employee Academy
  • Survey 15 team leaders on our educational needs and gapsleaders 150
  • Talk to 3 other companies’ HR Directors on how they do internal educationdirectors 30
  • Define 10 training modules and design content for eachmodules 100
  • Conduct the first 3-day team offsite to test out the Academy curriculumoffsite 10
Understand employees training needs and implement a training program
  • Interview 80% of employees to list top 3 key competencies that need to be developedcompetencies 30
  • Complete 3 key competency training sessions with average score over 80%% 800
  • Follow up with all participants and 70% feel more confident with work tasks% 700
Define and promote company culture and values internally
  • Conduct 3 company culture events - all 95 employees attendingattendees 950
  • Do a culture quiz and receive an average score of > 90%% 900
  • Survey employees on perceived improvement > 70% agree% 700

HR OKR Examples for Hiring & Recruiting

Improve the recruitment process to increase candidate satisfaction
  • Decrease rejected candidate feedback time from 10 to 5 days on averageday average 510
  • Improve process to reduce the recruitment steps from 5 meetings to 3meetings 35
  • Increase last round candidates satisfaction in process from 60% to 100% % 10060
Create a successful recruitment LinkedIn outreach campaign for Senior Engineering experts
  • Conduct seminars in the universities & collect over 100 emails for the talent poolemails 1000
  • Harvest Linkedin to collect 250 potential new candidatescandidates 2500
  • Redesign our careers webpage to drive 5% increase in website applicantsincrease % 50
Develop a sustainable candidate lead strategy
  • Partner with recruitment agencies to interview 60 candidatescandidates 600
  • Write 5 articles promoting us as a place to work read by 1500 unique visitorsvisitors 15000
  • Our vacancies web page visits increase from 600 to 900visits 900600
Research & improve best job advertising practices
  • Review competitor's hiring campaigns and gather 3 insights we could useinsights 30
  • Review 3 new candidate channelschannels 30
  • Increase average qualified candidates per advert from 10 to 15candidates 1510

HR OKR Examples for Employee Onboarding

Research improvement opportunities for a better onboarding process
  • Interview 6 department heads about their current onboarding processheads 60
  • Interview 10 new joiners to collect feedback on the onboarding process new joiners 100
  • Research 5 competitors’ onboarding practices for different departmentspractices 50
Improve the new-hire onboarding process in the Product team to ensure talent retention
  • Complete 5 sections of the must-have onboarding toolkit sections 50
  • Interview 7 team members about their own onboarding experience and what they would improve about itteam members 70
  • Achieve average onboarding satisfaction score of 8/10 points score 80

HR OKR Examples for Retention & Employees Wellness

Improve internal employee job satisfaction
  • Conduct 3 monthly “Fun Friday” all-hands meetings with motivational speakersmeetings 30
  • Interview 48 employees on ways to improve and implement suggestionsemployees 480
  • Improve weekly employee satisfaction score from 3.8 to 4.7 pointspoints 4.73.8

HR OKR Examples for Compensation and Benefits

Optimize our employee benefits program by providing more educational assistance
  • 20 employees from different departments give their input about their educational needsemployees 200
  • Research 5 competitors’ educational benefits programs for the employeesprograms 50
  • Select top 5 educational assistance programs based on the employees’ interviews and include them under one benefit package programs 50
Build an effective compensation strategy to retain top performer employees
  • Decrease top performers turnover rate from 15% to 5% % 515
  • Increase eNPS among top performers (Employee Net Promoter Score) from 60% to 70%% 7060
  • Collect 20 positive feedback comments from different departments’ top performers on the compensation strategy comments 200
Improve corporate culture through better communication
  • Launch an ongoing 2-way closed-loop feedback process & get 50 feedback entriesentries 500
  • Achieve a weekly Employee Satisfaction / Pulse Score of 4+Pulse Score 50
  • CEO and SVPs to launch a monthly all-hands town hall and open Q&A meetingmeetings 30
Make the company a desirable place to work
  • Employee's Net Promoter Score improved from 6 to over 8eNPS 86
  • Reduce turn over rate from 10% to 0%% 010
  • Increase our Glassdoor Culture & Values rating from 3 to 4+Culture & Values rating 43
Improve diversity and inclusion aspects to build an international team
  • Hire 5 representatives of different nationalities to the engineering teamrepresentatives 50
  • Conduct 4 events in cooperation with our international employees about their home countriesevents 40
  • Increase participation rate in diversity and inclusion training program from 50% to 80%% 8050

HR OKR Examples for Employee Engagement

Improve internal communication and workflows to reduce rework and misalignment
  • Moderate 13 alignment sessions between CS and Development sessions 130
  • Reduce the % of resolved tasks being reopened by the owner for further iterations from 80% to 10%% 1080
  • Organize 7 team presentations with each team presenting their internal roles division, values and challengespresentations 70
  • Increase weekly satisfaction with communication quality (between Compliance and Business Development) from 2/10 (current) to 7/10score 72
Improve internal employee engagement
  • Conduct 3 monthly team events and over 80% attendance% 800
  • Implement feedback system to get ongoing feedback and get over 40 employees respondingemployees 400
  • Average of 80% of employees fill in their Weekly Check-ins over the quarter% 800
  • Reach weekly employee satisfaction score of at least 4.7 pointspoints 4.70
Implement first-quarter OKRs successfully
  • All team managers attend Weekdone Theory and Usage training (Free)managers 100
  • Each team (5 total) set at least 1 good Team OKRteams 50
  • Each team manager holds 12 Weekly Check-in meetingsCheck-ins 600
  • Each team communicates 3 lessons learned using OKRs to the whole companyteams 50
Succeed in Q2 OKR usage and share lessons learned
  • Interview team leaders (5 teams) and set 3 main improvement areas for the new quarterimprovement ideas 150
  • Survey all employees before end of quarter and 80% confirm increase in confidence% 800
  • Ensure teams complete Check-ins each week (5 teams x 13 weeks)Check-ins completed 600

Compliance OKRs example for HR

Ensure effective compliance in the workplace
  • Test 5 HR software options with built-in compliance safeguards and select the one to start using options 50
  • Perform an HR compliance audit on 6 main areasareas 60
  • Resolve 90% of HR compliance related complaints within 48 hours % 900

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